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Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting to take place on July 23, 2022 – register here
The world has changed enormously since we last met a year ago. In order to make sense of these changes and their implications for the work of those campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons, the annual general meeting will include a general discussion about nuclear...

Youth take action on human rights, climate action, inter-generational cooperation and nuclear abolition
Youth Fusion, the network of young activists established by Abolition 2000, is taking a lead on global youth action for nuclear abolition. Youth Fusion is making connections with human rights and climate action and building cooperation between the human rights,...

Abolition 2000 Member organizations oppose Russian invasion of Ukraine
Photo: Volodymyr Melnyk - Ukraine 123RF Many Abolition 2000 Member organizations and networks have released statements opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Included below are links to some of these. A number of the statements have highlighted that the invasion is...

PACEY Youth Award 2022 highlights connections between peace, climate action and nuclear disarmament
On January 21, the third annual PACEY Awards – Peace, nuclear Abolition and Climate Engaged Youth – were held, co-hosted by Basel City, the Basel Peace Office and Youth Fusion – the global youth network of Abolition 2000. The Awards demonstrate the connections between...

Thank you, Dominique!
On Sunday 23 January 2022, Dominique Lalanne, 78, passed away from a stroke. Campaigning against the implementation of the French civil nuclear programme since the 1970s, Dominique devoted more than 30 years of his life to the fight against the French nuclear arsenal...

Global network to eliminate nuclear weapons calls on the United States, Russia, the UK, France and China to match words with actions
In 1970, at the height of the Cold War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force. Under the Treaty, which today includes all but five UN member states, five states acknowledged to possess nuclear weapons, the United States, Russia, the United...