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For many years, these laureates promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens

There are 343 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations

At the ceremony, ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn, and Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, received a medal

"The naive position is to think that we can have 15,000 nuclear weapons and that they will never, ever be used," Beatrice Fihn

The Nobel Peace Prize rewards aspiration more than achievement

The United Nations said the award would help bolster efforts to get the 55 ratifications by countries for the UN