Dec 28, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
Youth movements for climate action, peace and nuclear disarmament have sprung up in Europe and around the world in the past few years as young people have become concerned about existential threats to current and future generations, and increasingly frustrated at the...
Nov 9, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News, United Nations
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...
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,...
