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Scrap Jaitapur: citizens oppose nuclear project as French President arrives in India

In a Press Conference organised in New Delhi, activists opposed the nuclear power project in Maharashtra’s Jaitapur where India is setting up 6 nuclear plants imported from France. Eminent social activist Aruna Roy, Priya Pillai of Greenpeace India and Kumar Sundaram of Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace(CNDP) addressed the press conference. Here is the press statement that they jointly released.

Urgent PressConf invitation: Scrap Jaitapur! Citizens Voices on the eve of the French President’s visit

Modi govt has been blindly pursuing the UPA's nuclear obssession, taking a u-turn from the BJP's own strong reservations on dilution of liability law and fraudulent environmental clearance for the Jaitapur project.

Statement on gender and disarmament to the UN General Assembly First Committee

On 16 October 2015, Reaching Critical Will's Director Ray Acheson delivered the following statement to the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.

Generation of Change: A Youth Pledge for Nuclear Abolition

his pledge was introduced on August 30, 2015, at the International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition in Hiroshima, Japan. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to add your signature to the pledge.

70 years of Hiroshima: the unlearned lessons of 1945

Justifications for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ultimately based on the idea that yardsticks applicable to most nations are inapplicable to the US government and its allies. The same presumption has often undermined international arms control efforts. The mainstream Western discourse on Iran holds that it would be undesirable for Tehran to acquire a nuclear bomb—but simply ignores the fact that US or Israeli possession of nuclear arsenals is equally problematic.