Aug 7, 2019 | Blogroll, Mayors for Peace, Movement News
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...
Jul 2, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
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...
Jun 21, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
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...
Jun 5, 2019 | AGM, Blogroll, Movement News, United Nations
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,...
Apr 27, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
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...
Apr 2, 2019 | Blogroll, Webinar
The webinar will provide an overview of nuclear disarmament processes and events happening in 2019, and the main nuclear disarmament campaigns and actions by parliamentarians, mayors and civil society. The webinar will introduce Abolition 2000 working groups,...
