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ICAN in Oslo
Last weekend, ICAN were in Oslo to collect their Nobel Peace Prize. Ralf Schlesener took photos for Pressenza and ICAN at events and behind the scenes at the various activities that took place. We present a selection of his work…
Nobel lecture: Nuclear weapons signify not a country’s elevation to greatness, but its descent to the darkest depths of depravity
Today, Sunday, 10th of December, 2017, ICAN received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in securing a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Setsuko Thurlow, survivor of the Hiroshima bomb on the 6th of August 1945 gave half…
Nobel Lecture: We must reclaim the freedom to not live our lives as hostages to imminent annihilation
Today, Sunday, 10th of December, 2017, ICAN received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in securing a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the network gave half of the Nobel Lecture. Your Majesties,…
Three more countries sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Yesterday, Friday 8th of December, three more countries formally signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in a ceremony at the UN in New York. Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Namibia join 53 other countries as…
Nuclear weapons states to boycott Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
AFP have reported that ambassadors of nuclear weapons states, with the exception of Russia and Israel, will boycott the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, due to take place in Oslo, Norway, on the 10th of December in which ICAN (the International…
Interview with Tim Wright at the Humanitarian Disarmament Forum
Interview with Tim, Asia-Pacific Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017, recorded at the Humanitarian Disarmament Campaign Forum in NYC on October 14, 2017 @nuclearban @TimMilesWright
Susi Snyder, ICAN: “This is a chance to put the human first!”
During the meeting for the 2017 Golden Doves for peace event, held in Rome on October 10, and now in its XXXIIIrd edition, we had the honour of meeting Susi Snyder, member of the International Steering Board of ICAN, this…
Nobel Peace Prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
By Richard Falk Finally, the committee in Oslo that picks a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize each year selected in 2017 an awardee that is a true embodiment of the intended legacy of Alfred Nobel when he established the…
The African Union welcomes the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN
Addis Ababa, 7 October 2017: The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, welcomes the awarding of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Peace to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). He congratulates ICAN, and expresses…
Nobel Peace Prize 2017: Law and morality versus violent geopolitics
By Richard Falk Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and University of California, Santa Barbara, board member of The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and TFF Associate since 1985 Finally, the committee in Oslo that picks a winner of…
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