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Abolition 2000 member groups help move $542 billion in mock money from nukes to the SDGs
From Thursday October 24 (UN Day) to Wednesday October 30, a team of volunteers in New York City counted out $542 billion – the approximate global nuclear weapons budget for the next five years – and symbolically reallocated this to peace, climate protection, poverty...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days, August 6th and 9th
Seventy-four years ago, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the most horrific acts of warfare in history. Join organizations around the world to commemorate the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and urge our leaders to prevent...
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US Conference of Mayors in Hawaii call on US leadership for nuclear disarmament
On July 1, at the close of its 87th Annual Meeting, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), unanimously adopted a bold new resolution, “Calling on All Presidential Candidates to Make Known Their Positions on Nuclear Weapons and to Pledge U.S. Global Leadership...
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How grassroots campaigners can use the UN Human Rights Committee General Comment 36 on the Right to Life
On October 24, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted General Comment 36 on the Right to Life, which affirmed, amongst other things, that the 'threat or use of nuclear weapons is incompatible with the Right to Life and may amount to a crime under international...
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A global week for peace, climate protection, SDGs and nuclear abolition: Sep 21-27
Abolition 2000, at its Annual Assembly in New York on May 5, 2019, established a new working group on Peace, climate protection, nuclear abolition and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to: a) build cooperation between the constituencies working on these issues,...
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May 5th – Annual General Meeting – New York
Dear friends and colleagues, It’s that time of the NPT cycle when many of the members of our network converge on New York in order to participate in the NPT PrepCom. On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept its iconic Doomsday Clock at two minutes to...
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