Re-framing the Debate on Nuclear Disarmament

The humanitarian discourse should not be reduced to a discussion about one legal approach or another. It focuses on the weapon itself rather than the symbolism that has been created around nuclear weapons and deterrence. It is thus a discussion that should reinforce momentum towards nuclear disarmament.

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

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.