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Nuclear abolition in the post-covid-19 world
As part of preparations of the Annual General Meeting 2020, the Coordinating Committee approached a diverse range of network members to give us their views on how the work of nuclear abolition may be affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The world is changing before our...

Abolition 2000 Annual General Meeting to take place on May 23, 2020 – register here
The world has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the development, production, deployment and threat of use of nuclear weapons remain. We invite you to join us on May 23 for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate...

Addressing the threats to Planetary Survival
We invite anyone interested in joining efforts to make a world free of nuclear weapons to read our Earth Day statement and sign it by clicking on this link. Earth Day 2020 sign on statement from members of the Abolition 2000 global network to eliminate nuclear weapons...

The Breakdown of the Iran Deal – Global perspectives
On October 2nd, the international day of nonviolence, Abolition 2000 held its fourth webinar on issues related to our goals of eliminating nuclear weapons and nuclear power, this time on the crucial issue of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the JCPOA, which came into force in...

Youth voices and actions on climate, peace and nuclear disarmament
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...