The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on Friday.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was selected by a panel appointed by the Norwegian parliament from a total of 318 known and reported candidates, APA reported citing the Indian Express.
ICAN is a coalition of non-governmental organisations from around 100 different countries around the globe. It has been the leading civil society actor in the effort to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law. The Nobel Committee emphasised that the next steps towards attaining a world free of nuclear weapons must involve the nuclear-armed states.
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