International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins Nobel Peace Prize 2017

FILE- In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobel prize has greater personal impact than merely receiving the monetary award, as it marks the recipient in terms of esteem and global recognition. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, FILE)The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The group – known by it’s acronym ICAN – was awarded the honour for its work “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for it’s ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based […]

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