The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Each prize is worth eleven million Swedish krona and winners will be given a diploma and gold medal on December tenth, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform.

Observers say the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency, the International Court of Justice, and United Nations Secretary-General Mr Antonio Guterres are among this year’s Nobel Peace Prize favourites.