Question

${2017}^{\prime }s$ winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace received it "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and its ground breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".
Identify this organisation.

• A. Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
• B. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• C. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• D. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is an organization founded on 23 April 2007 in Australia. It won Nobel Peace Prize 2017. ICAN is promoting nuclear disarmament. It is because of the efforts of the campaign that led to the adoption of the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.