Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Sueichi Kido, secretary general of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a press conference in the central Japan city of Gifu on Oct. 12, 2024, a day after the group won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Sueichi Kido, secretary general of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a press conference in the central Japan city of Gifu on Oct. 12, 2024, a day after the group won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Sueichi Kido, secretary general of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a press conference in the central Japan city of Gifu on Oct. 12, 2024, a day after the group won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Sueichi Kido, an 83-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, lasting five days, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 27, 2023.

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Observers applaud after Sueichi Kido, an 83-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, lasting five days, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 27, 2023.

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Sueichi Kido (front), an 83-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, lasting five days, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 27, 2023.

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Sueichi Kido (C), an 83-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, lasting five days, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 27, 2023.

Antinuke petition to U.N.

Antinuke petition to U.N.

Sueichi Kido (C), secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations, meets with Romanian Ambassador Ion Jinga (2nd from L), who currently chairs the General Assembly committee, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 10, 2018, to deliver a petition with 8.3 million signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

NPT review conference

NPT review conference

Atomic bomb survivor Sueichi Kido (2nd from R) delivers in New York on May 1, 2019, a petition signed by 9.4 million people -- calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons -- to Malaysian Ambassador Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, who chairs the third and final session of the preparatory committee for the 2020 review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, running through May 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hibakusha hands U.N. petition for nuke-free world signed by 5 million

Hibakusha hands U.N. petition for nuke-free world signed by 5 million

Iraq's Mohammad Bahr Aluloom (C), chair of the U.N. General Assembly committee charged with tackling disarmament and international security issues, and Sueichi Kido (R), secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations, Izumi Nakamitsu, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, join hands in New York on Oct. 5, 2017. Kido handed Aluloom a petition signed by over 5 million people around the globe calling for a world free of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo