Results of the CNDP Poster Competition
We express our heartfelt thanks to all of you for participating in the poster competition organised by the CNDP.
National Convention – Challenges to Indian Democracy: Nuclearisation, Militarisation, State Violence
The 2-day National Convention will be held in New Delhi on 30th and 31st of August 2014. Concerned citizens and movements from all over the country will be invited to raise their voice for justice and peace. We are reaching out to democratic organisations and people's movements to come together and among other matters help work out a programme that will include opening and closing plenaries, parallel workshops and evening cultural activities and in this way make a public statement before the new government.
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2014
Following is the full text of the Peace Declaration issued Wednesday by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui during a ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima:
CNDP Statement on Israel’s Brutal Assault on Gaza
We are shocked at Israel's ongoing brutal assault on the Gaza Strip, which has caused more than 150 Palestinian civilian deaths. The kidnapping and murder of three teenage Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank was condemnable, but Israel has reacted to it by visiting indiscriminate collective punishment on the Palestinian people, without identifying the culprits.
We Must End the Madness of Nuclear Weapons
Some five decades ago, world leaders came together on an urgent mission to avert "the devastation that would be visited upon all mankind" in the event of a nuclear war. The five then-existing nuclear weapon states - the United States, Soviet Union (now Russia), United Kingdom, France and China - signed the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). They agreed to negotiate in good faith to end the nuclear arms race at an early date and to achieve a world without nuclear weapons.