On August 6 (Hiroshima Day) and August 9 (Nagasaki Day), Basel Peace Office encourages peace and disarmament activists to use the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ('ban treaty') and the upcoming United Nations High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament to promote nuclear abolition.
1) Non-nuclear countries
Call on your government to sign the ban treaty, which will open for signature at the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, and to ratify the treaty before the UN High-Level Conference in 2018. The aim is to have 50 countries ratify by the time of UN High-Level conference so that it can enter-into-force by then.
2) Nuclear-armed and allied countries
The nuclear-armed and allied countries have said that they will not join the ban treaty. So on August 6 and 9, call on them to commit to adopting other significant nuclear risk-reduction and disarmament measures at the 2018 UN High-Level Conference. (See suggested measures at UN High-Level Conference - Abolition 2000).
3) All countries
Call on your government (regardless of whether its nuclear-armed, allied or non-nuclear) to participate at the highest level (Prime Minister/President) in the 2018 UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament.
Recent UN High-Level Conferences have been very successful, adopting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (2015), Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2016), New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants (2016) and 14-Point Action Plan to Protect our Oceans (2017). We should expect no less from the High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament.
For more information see:
- The Ban Treaty and the UN High Level Conference
- Abolition 2000 Working Group on the 2018 UN High-Level Conference
- Making use of the nuclear ban treaty.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day events and actions around the world
The Abolition 2000 events calendar lists actions and events around the world for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days - August 6th and 9th. Contact info@baselpeaceoffice.org if you have an action or event that you would like listed. Below are a few of them.
Atomic Bomb Awareness Day
The commemoration will include speeches, 3D Art, UN Choir, traditional Japanese tea ceremony, origami corner and breakdancing.
Cosponsored by UN Office of Disarmament Affairs, NGO Committee for Peace and Genbaku No-Hi.