{
  "id": 4838934,
  "title": "Dr Ronald McCoy dies: Malaysian behind Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/dr-ronald-mccoy-dies-malaysian-behind-nobel-peace-prize-winning",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T09:54:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/09/1523612/dr-ronald-mccoy-dies-malaysian-behind-nobel-peace-prize-winning"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dr Ronald McCoy, a Malaysian gynaecologist and anti-nuclear weapons advocate, passed away at the age of 96, according to his son Stephen McCoy. The wake and tributes will take place at his residence in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, from Friday to Saturday. Born in Seremban in 1930, McCoy pursued his secondary education at Victoria Institution before joining the University of Malaya in Singapore in 1949. He began his medical career at Assunta Hospital in 1965, later transferring to Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur. His retirement from active practice occurred in February 1996.\n\nMcCoy's involvement in the global movement against nuclear weapons commenced in 2005, following the failure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review in 1968. This impasse was partly attributed to non-nuclear states' apprehensions about nuclear powers not fulfilling their disarmament commitments. Inspired by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its subsequent success in the Ottawa Landmine Treaty of 1997, McCoy co-founded the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in 2007. The campaign expanded into a worldwide coalition comprising numerous NGOs in approximately 100 countries. In 2017, ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts in highlighting the disastrous humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons and for its pioneering role in the creation of a treaty prohibiting their use. This victory culminated in the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by the United Nations on July 7, 2017.",
  "summary": "KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian gynaecologist and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Datuk Dr Ronald McCoy has died at the age of 96.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Ronald McCoy dies at 96",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/anti-nuclear-campaigner-dr-ronald-mccoy-dies-at-96",
        "published": "2026-09-01T09:05:09.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}