The Abolition 2000 Global Council, representing peace and disarmament organisations from around the world, calls on the United States and North Korea to step back from the brink of war in North East Asia, and instead adopt a diplomatic approach to prevent war.
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Declaration of the International Meeting | 2017 World Conference against A & H Bombs
On July 7 of this year, 72 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons was finally adopted. Having worked with the Hibakusha since the First World Conference against A and H Bombs in 1955 to call for the prevention of nuclear war, the elimination of nuclear weapons and the relief and solidarity with the Hibakusha, we heartily welcome the adoption of the treaty as a historic event, and pledge to move forward with renewed determination to achieve a “Nuclear Weapon-Free, Peaceful and Just World”.
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Letter from Nagasaki to the World’s Governments
2017 World Conference against A & H Bombs – Nagasaki
August 9, 2017
Special Resolution: Letter from Nagasaki to the World’s Governments
We met in Nagasaki, a city that suffered an atomic bomb attack 72 years ago, to call on the world’s governments to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a first step towards completely eliminating nuclear weapons.
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Hiroshima World Conference speech
by Lisa Clark, IPB Co-President
I would like to begin by thanking the organizers for having invited me. My name is Lisa Clark and I am currently the Co-President of the International Peace Bureau, an old organization, founded in the early 1890s, to establish a permanent network among the peace movements from different countries. In the late 19th century they were mostly European and North American, but today the IPB has over 300 member organizations in all continents, including Nihon Hidankyo and Gensuikyo, the organizers of this World Conference.
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Tony de Brum | Speech at the MacBride Prize Ceremony 2014
Tony de Brum received the Sean MacBride Peace Prize in 2014 on behalf of The people and government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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IPB mourns the death of Tony de Brum
The International Peace Bureau mourns the death of Tony de Brum who passed away this morning, on Tuesday 22nd August 2017.
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Common Security Diplomacy to Resolve U.S.-North Korean Crisis
Joseph Gerson*
President Trump’s off the cuff and extremely dangerous and outrageous threat to devastate North Korea with “fire and fury… unlike the world has ever seen” is bringing us to the brink of the unthinkable. There is no military solution to the dangers posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. We need to do all that we can to bring reason and bear with Common Security diplomacy that could bring these two nuclear powers back from the brink and to establish the basis for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.
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2017 World Conference against A and H Bombs, Nagasaki – Closing Plenary
Lisa Clark
Co-President, International Peace Bureau
OHAYO GOZAIMASU
This was my first time at the World Conference. Let me thank Gensuikyo for having allowed me to enjoy this extraordinary experience. The International Peace Bureau (IPB) is dedicated to the vision of a world without war.
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Remembering what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Seventy two years ago the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The humanitarian and environmental consequences were catastrophic. Since then the peace movement fights against nuclear weapons and just recently, on July 7th it got a strong reason to celebrate – the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty was adopted at the UN in New York.
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The Nuclear Ban Treaty
John Burroughs
Lawyers Commitee on Nuclear Policy
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Amb. Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko of South Africa, which played an important role in the negotiations.UN Webcast, March 28, 2017.
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Approved on July 7 by a vote of 122 to 1 (Netherlands, the only NATO state to participate), with one abstention (Singapore), the nuclear ban treaty will open for signature on September 20 at the United Nations and will enter into force when 50 states have signed and ratified it.