• Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry. Perry was one of the four US statesmen who penned the seminal article in the Wall Street Journal ‘Toward a Nuclear-Free World, which helped pave the way for President Obama’s Prague Speech and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Five Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament. Since then Perry has continued to advance nuclear disarmament including at the United Nations. In 2016 he stepped up his nuclear disarmament work by launching The William Perry Project.

'Nuclear weapons no longer provide for our security, they endanger it. '

• The government of the Marshall Islands and former foreign minister Tony de Brum. Mr de Brum is also a Council Member of Parliamentarians for Nuclear non-proliferation and Disarmament, one of the UNFOLD ZERO co-founding organisations. The Marshall Islands played a lead role in the historic 1996 International Court of Justice (ICJ) case on the illegality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. Then, in 2014, Mr de Brum initiated lawsuits in a U.S. Federal Court against the United States, and in the ICJ against the nine nuclear armed States in an attempt to compel them to implement their obligation to achieve complete nuclear disarmament. Over 5 million people signed a petition endorsing these cases. See Nuclear Zero lawsuits.
   
• Diplomats from the U.S. and New Zealand Missions to the United Nations for leading the Security Council to adopt Resolution 2310 and reinforce the global norm against nuclear testing on Sept. 23, 2016, the 20th anniversary of the opening for signature of the treaty;

• The foreign ministers of Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa for advancing a resolution at the UN First Committee “to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons." The resolution was adopted, which means the negotiations will commence, but was only supported by non-nuclear States meaning that it won't apply to nuclear armed States or the allies under extended nuclear deterrence relationships;
   
• Author Eric Schlosser and Director Robert Kenner for the 2016 film documentary Command and Control, which tells the riveting story of nuclear weapons accidents and near-misses. Their work has been instrumental in raising awareness about the risks of nuclear weapons in support of the humanitarian initiative at the UN to ban nuclear weapons.