The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), is a nuclear disarmament group that has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 for its decade-long activism against atomic bombs. The ICAN was launched in 2007 as a concern of the International Physicians for Prevention of the Nuclear War (IPPNW), a leading medical-NGO campaigning for a treaty to ban and delegitimise nuclear weapons. The ICAN describes itself as a coalition of activist groups of 468 partners from 101 countries including two Bangladeshi voluntary organisations. The Bangladeshi partners of ICAN, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Bangladesh (PSR,B) and Centre for Bangladesh Studies (CBS), have given the country a share of the glory for winning the nobel prize. After the inception of ICAN, as an affiliation of IPPNW, PSR,B started working with international advocacy group against the use of nuclear weapons.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 07, 2017 18:22 UTC