CNDP Poster Competition: Nuclear Disarmament, Demilitarisation and Peace
CNDP invites entries for poster competition on the theme of Nuclear Disarmament, Demilitarisation and Peace.
Fewer bombs, but nuclear states ‘determined’ to keep arsenals: SIPRI
Nuclear-armed states are modernizing their arsenals and appear determined to keep sizable numbers of such weapons of mass destruction for the foreseeable future, the SIPRI think-tank said in its annual report on Monday.
Fukushima’s Children are Dying
More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.
Kathmandu Declaration: Denouncing Militarisation and Promoting Peace in South Asia
We, the people of South Asia, representing civil societies from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, converged at Kathmandu on 26-27 March 2014 for a South Asia Campaign on Demilitarisation, Democratisation and Social Justice in South Asia. The participants unanimously endorsed the theme of the campaign Denouncing Militarisation and Promoting Peace in South Asia and commit to work as peace campaigners in our social movements for the cause of peace and prosperity in South Asia.
New Campaign for a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Gains Momentum
With a follow up meeting coming in Austria, December 8th and 9th of this year, we should be strategic in pushing the impetus forward for a legal ban. We need to get even more governments to show up in Vienna, and make plans for a massive turnout of NGOs to encourage states to come out from under their shameful nuclear umbrella and to cheer on the burgeoning group of peace-seeking nations in our efforts to end the nuclear scourge!