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Why Nobel to ICAN is a Milestone for Nuclear Disarmament: Alice Slater

Why Nobel to ICAN is a Milestone for Nuclear Disarmament: Alice Slater

Nuclear Disarmament December 24, 2017 at 3:00 am 0 comments

In Oslo on December 10, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and was accepted on behalf of the Campaign by its executive director, Beatrice Fihn, and by Setsuko Thurlow, an ICAN campaigner and survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. Both spoke for the thousands of campaigners in over 400 organizations and more than 100 countries around the world who succeeded this fall in working with friendly governments to move a majority of states at the United Nations to adopt a treaty to prohibit to ban nuclear weapons, making their possession, use, or threat of use unlawful.

Rebecca Johnson: What it Meant to be in Oslo for ICAN’s Nobel Award Ceremony

Rebecca Johnson: What it Meant to be in Oslo for ICAN’s Nobel Award Ceremony

Nuclear Disarmament December 12, 2017 at 1:17 am 0 comments

Rebecca’s SPEECH FOR ICAN AT TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Oslo Central Station, 10 December 2