Nobel Peace Prize winners urge Australia to adopt nuclear weapons ban treaty

An Australian-born campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

ICAN Members Dimity Hawkins, Tim Wright and Tilman Ruff at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Carlton, Melbourne Source: AAP

Warning of the risk of nuclear war, the Norwegian Nobel Committe awarded the prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN.

Campaigners say they hope the prize encourages the Australian government, and nuclear-armed states, to adopt the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.