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Actions and events around the world for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days

7 Aug 2018

The nuclear abolition movement is alive and active. This we can see from hundreds of actions and events taking place around the world this week to commemorate Hiroshima Day (August 6), Nagasaki Day (August 9) and International Youth Day (August 14). Events include...

Abolition 2000 members amongst winners of Nuclear Free Future Awards

16 Jul 2018

Leaders of two Abolition 2000 member organisations are amongst the winners of the Nuclear Free Future Awards (NFFA) announced in Munich yesterday. Karipbek Kuyukov, Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project and a second generation victim of nuclear tests conducted in...

International protest at Büchel nuclear weapons base precedes Trump-Putin Summit

14 Jul 2018

Peace and disarmament activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States gathered at the Büchel airforce base in Germany this weekend, to protest the U.S. nuclear weapons...

Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit, OSCE parliamentarians call for confidence building measures including no-first-use of nuclear weapons

12 Jul 2018

Over 300 parliamentarians from Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Canada and the United States meeting in Berlin July 7-11, 2018, adopted a declaration expressing deep concern about unresolved conflicts and nuclear weapons threats in the region, and proposing...

Watch Out World: Peace May be Breaking Out!!

8 Jul 2018

By Alice Slater for World BEYOND War. Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its...

Trump – Putin summit an opportunity for nuclear restraint and disarmament

29 Jun 2018

President Donald Trump and President Vladamir Putin will meet in Helsinki, on July 16 in what will be the first formal summit of the two leaders. Such a meeting is both important and significant, coming at a time of heightened tensions, mutual suspicions and conflicts...

Abolition 2000

The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but there are still 16,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. Most of them belong to the United States and Russia. The United Kingdom, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and now, North Korea, collectively have fewer than 1000. Abolition 2000 is a global network committed to ridding the world of nuclear weapons, and the terrible danger they pose for life on our fragile planet.

Abolition 2000 shared UNFOLD ZERO's post.Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 at 8:39am

Nuclear Abolition Day - Security Council session clashes with UN High Level Meeting http://www.unfoldzero.org/nuclear-abolition-day-security-council-session-clashes-with-un-high-level-meeting/

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Abolition 2000 shared a link.Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 9:27am

Our Youth Ambassador Kehkashan Basu is speaking at the UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament in New York today. You can read her presentation here.

Kehkashan Basu speaking on UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament

Our Youth Ambassador Kehkashan Basu is speaking at the UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament in New York today. You can read her presentation here.

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Abolition 2000Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 9:27am

Kehkashan Basu speaking on behalf of civil society at the UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/kehkashan-basu-speaking-un-high-level-meeting-on-nuclear-disarmament/

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Abolition 2000Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 2:45am

http://www.unfoldzero.org/un-secretary-general-calls-for-dialogue-on-nuclear-disarmament/

UN Secretary-General calls for dialogue on nuclear disarmament – UNFOLD ZERO

UN Secretary-General calls for dialogue on nuclear disarmament September 26, 2018 September 26. International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Sincere, substantive and results-oriented dialogue towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, led by the nuclear-armed States, is urge...

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Abolition 2000Friday, August 31st, 2018 at 2:22am

http://pnnd.org/article/us-no-first-use-campaign-builds-momentum-support-legislators-federal-state-and-city-levels

U.S. No-First Use campaign builds momentum with support from legislators at federal, state and city levels | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

Resolutions promoting a No-First-Use policy for nuclear weapons are adopted in California State Legislature, Baltimore City Council, Los Angeles City and U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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