In 2017, ICAN was honoured with the Nobel Peace 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”.

“It is our firm conviction that ICAN, more than anyone else, has in the past year given the efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons a new direction and new vigour.”

– Norwegian Nobel Committee, 2017

The prize is a tribute to the tireless efforts of the countless campaigners and concerned citizens worldwide who, ever since the dawn of the nuclear age, have loudly protested against nuclear weapons, insisting that they be abolished forever.

This is not a distant dream, but an urgent necessity. Future generations must grow up free from this terrible scourge.