_- Atomic bomb survivor to jointly accept Nobel Peace Prize on ICAN’s behalf.

_- INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (ICAN) ·
JUEVES, 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2017

An 85-year-old survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima will jointly accept this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 years old when the United States attacked her city, will receive the award together with ICAN’s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on 10 December.

Thurlow has been a leading figure in ICAN since its launch in 2007. She played a pivotal role in the United Nations negotiations that led to the adoption of the landmark treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in July.

For more than seven decades, she has campaigned against the bomb. Her powerful speeches at diplomatic conferences and in classrooms have inspired countless individuals around the world to take action for disarmament.

Two other survivors of the atomic bombings, to be selected by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, will also attend the prize ceremony, as will survivors of nuclear testing.

Fihn, who is based in Geneva, has worked in the area of disarmament for the past decade, including with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She has a law degree from the University of London.

“In our advocacy, we have always emphasized the inhumanity of nuclear weapons. Devices that are incapable of distinguishing between a combatant and a child are simply unacceptable,” said Fihn.

“Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are living witnesses to the horror of nuclear war. They have played a central role in ICAN. World leaders must heed their call for a nuclear-weapon-free future.”

Thurlow and Fihn will jointly deliver the Nobel lecture and receive the medallion and diploma from the Norwegian Nobel committee. They will do so as representatives of ICAN, this year’s Nobel peace laureate.

ICAN was awarded the prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.

ICAN is a diverse coalition of 468 non-governmental organizations in 101 countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty.

ICAN campaigners around the world will take part in celebrations on 10 December and renew their appeal for governments to sign and ratify this crucial new international accord without delay.

Thurlow said that she was overjoyed by the news that ICAN had won the Nobel Peace Prize, describing it as a wonderful and well-deserved honour. “I am so deeply humbled to have been invited to jointly accept the prize on behalf of the campaign,” she said.

“It has been such a privilege to work with so many passionate and inspirational ICAN campaigners around the world over the past decade. The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful tool that we can now use to advance our cause.”

Organizaciones por la paz y contra las armas nucleares.
http://www.icanw.org/campaign/partner-organizations/

_- La Campaña Internacional para la Abolición de las Armas Nucleares (ICAN) gana el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2017.

_- La Marea

La Academia sueca reconoce la labor de esta organización global cuyo objetivo es que los países inicien negociaciones para que se firme un tratado que prohíba este tipo de armamento

La  Campaña Internacional para Abolir las Armas Nucleares (ICAN, por sus siglas en inglés) ha recibido este viernes el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2017. El galardón de este año “insta a los Estados nucleares a que inicien las negociaciones para la eliminación gradual en el mundo de 15.000 armas nucleares“, ha explicado el Comité noruego. Y ha añadido: “ICAN ha sido el agente principal de la sociedad civil en los esfuerzos para lograr una prohibición de las armas nucleares bajo el derecho internacional”.

El Comité ha subrayado, como “importante argumento” para la prohibición de las armas, el “inaceptable sufrimiento humano” que provocan y ha destacado que otros tipos de armamento menos destructivo como las minas antipersonas, bombas de racimo y las armas químicas y biológicas ya han sido prohibidas por distintos tratados.

ICAN es una coalición global formada por 331 socios en 80 países que trabaja para movilizar a las personas de todo el mundo “para inspirar, persuadir y presionar a sus gobiernos para que inicien negociaciones para que se firme un tratado que prohíba las armas nucleares”, según se autodefine.

Personalidades destacadas como el líder antirracista Desmond Tutu, el Dali Lama, Yoko Ono y Martin Sheen han brindado su apoyo a la campaña.

ICAN sucede en el palmarés al presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, quien fue distinguido por sus “decididos esfuerzos” por llevar la paz a su país tras 52 años de conflicto armado, una decisión que se anunció días después de vencer el “no” en el referéndum colombiano a los acuerdos con la guerrilla de las FARC.

El Nobel de la Paz está dotado con 9 millones de coronas suecas (943.784 euros, 1,1 millones de dólares).

Fuente:
http://www.lamarea.com/2017/10/06/la-marea-la-campana-internacional-para-la-abolicion-de-las-armas-nucleares-gana-el-premio-nobel-de-la-paz-2017/

Organizaciones por la paz y contra las armas nucleares.
http://www.icanw.org/campaign/partner-organizations/

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