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U.N. Urged to Ban Nuke Strikes against Cities

Dec 10, 2014 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, GSI News, Hiroshima, Human Rights, Jonathan Granoff, Nagasaki, Op Eds, United Nations

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 2014 (IPS) – Civil society groups are urging the U.N. General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring nuclear strikes on cities to be a clear-cut violation of international humanitarian law. At the Dec. 8-9 Vienna Conference on the...

MPI: Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba Named New Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative

Aug 3, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Events, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, NPT

August 3, 2012: The former Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, has been appointed Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI), David Krieger, Chairman of MPI’s Executive Committee, announced today. He hailed Akiba, one of the world’s foremost...

PNND panel at the NPT Prep Com: The Role of Parliamentarians in Advancing a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Jul 12, 2012 | Events

PNND Event ReportMay 8, 2009 On 8 May PNND hosted a panel at the Preparatory Committee meeting of States Parties to the 2010 NPT Review Conference at the United Nations in New York. The panel was chaired by Alyn Ware (PNND Global Coordinator) and included...

Global Security Institute eNewsletter: June 15, 2005

May 22, 2012 | Newsletter

Dear Friends: The 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference did not accomplish much needed progress in nuclear non-proliferation or disarmament. Renewed efforts to make the world safer have become more urgent. The interim report below tells how a...

Reflecting and Serving on Hiroshima Day

May 22, 2012 | Inspiration

August 6, 2010 Today marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the beginning of a new era for the human race. Our capacity for destruction must be met with our more powerful capacity to be truly human. As we commemorate this moment and take...

GSI eNewsletter: August 10, 2005

Aug 10, 2005 | Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter

Contents: 1. MPI Chairman delivers address for 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, Hiroshima, Japan 2. MPI Chairman interview on Australian Broadcast Radio 3. Texts of testimonies by Hiroshima Mayor Akiba and Nagasaki 4. Mayor Itoh to the International Court of...

Peace Declaration on the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima – Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba – Speech Delivered to the Annual Peace Memorial Ceremony

Aug 6, 2005 | China, Denuclearization, DPE, France, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Japan, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, Russia, U.S., UK, United Nations

Hiroshima, Japan This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than 300 thousand souls of A-bomb victims and those who remain behind transcend the boundary between life and death to remember that day. It is...