The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a global civil society coalition working to mobilize people in all countries to inspire, persuade and pressure their governments to initiate and support negotiations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. ICAN was launched in 2007 by IPPNW and today counts more than 270 partner organizations in 60 countries. ICAN calls on states, international organizations and other actors to:
- Acknowledge that any use of nuclear weapons would cause catastrophic humanitarian harm.
- Acknowledge that there exists a universal humanitarian imperative to ban nuclear weapons, even for states that do not possess these weapons.
- Acknowledge that the nuclear possessors have an obligation to eliminate their nuclear weapons.
- Take immediate action to support a multilateral process of negotiations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
On March 2nd and 3rd 2013 in Oslo ICAN will host the ICAN Civil Society Forum to unite civil society around the unacceptability of the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and call for the start of a process to secure a treaty banning them. The forum will immediately precede the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons on the 4th and 5th of March.
ICAN also organize the "Nuclear Abolition Day".
Read more about International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Launch, Mission, ICAN 2013 Civil Society Forum, Nuclear Abolition Day, Membership and Support, Member Organizations
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