Anti-nuclear campaigners to accept Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

An anti-nuclear weapons campaign group is set to accept the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony on Sunday in Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its focus on addressing the gap in international law regarding the restriction of nuclear weapons.

ICAN is a coalition of 468 non-governmental organizations from 101 different countries and has its headquarters in Geneva.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of ICAN will be accompanied at the award ceremony in Oslo City Hall by Setsuko Thurlow of Japan. She is a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an ICAN campaigner.

The peace prize is one of the awards endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

In accordance with Nobel's will, the peace prize is handed out in Oslo.

Later Sunday, the recipients of the Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics are to receive their awards in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

Each prize is worth 9 million Swedish kronor (1.1 million dollars).

The award ceremonies are traditionally held on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.