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OpEd: A nuclear clash could starve the world
May 11: (CNN) -- Recent ballistic missile tests by India, Pakistan and North Korea -- which has ominously threatened to "reduce to ashes" the South Korean military "in minutes" -- are once again focusing the world's attention on the dangers of nuclear war.

Before the NPT PrepCOM, ICAN Campaigners meeting in Vienna
April 28-29: ICAN held a campaigners' meeting to strategize for the 2012 PrepCom event and exchange ideas and plans. The meeting was at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, courtesy of the Austrian foreign affairs ministry.

IPPNW / PSR release new nuclear famine report
April 24: More than a billion people around the world would face starvation following a limited regional nuclear weapons exchange (such as a clash between India and Pakistan) that would cause major worldwide climate disruption driving down food production in China, the US and other nations, according to a major new report by IPPNW and its US affiliate, PSR.

Available online - Vital Signs newsletter
April 18: The biannual international newsletter is now available online. Monthly US donors can opt to receive a paper copy of the newsletter by contacting gfitzgerald@ippnw.org.

International conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons due to take place in 2013
April 17: The Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced to the Norwegian parliament that "a
conference in Oslo to highlight different aspects of nuclear weapons as a humanitarian problem" is scheduled to take place next spring.

Urging WHO to focus on toxic contaminants
March 30: The World Health Organization and the Iraq Health Ministry will conduct field research in April to determine the possible causes of a dramatic spike in congenital birth defects during the years since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. IPPNW's co-presidents have written to Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the WHO, urging her to make exposure to toxic contaminants from weapons and other explosives, particularly DU, a focal point of the investigation.

Op-ed: US should cut nuclear stockpile
March 29: This week at an international nuclear security summit in South Korea, President Barack Obama's private request to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for "space" on his proposal for cooperation on missile defense was overheard from a live microphone and grabbed the headlines. The president's public remarks on the nuclear threat, however, were far more noteworthy.

Hibakusha Worldwide
March 12: IPPNW’s new poster exhibition is dedicated to the millions of people whose lives have been affected by nuclear weapons development and the nuclear industry: the survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; indigenous people whose homes were turned into nuclear wastelands by uranium mining; downwinders of the nuclear weapons tests; the people affected by radioactive fallout from civil and military nuclear “accidents,” including nuclear reactor meltdowns.

Don’t Bank on the Bomb
March 5: A groundbreaking report released by ICAN identifies more than 300 banks, pension funds, insurance companies, and asset managers in 30 countries with substantial investments in nuclear arms producers. The 180-page study provides details of financial transactions with 20 companies that are heavily involved in the manufacture, maintenance and modernization of US, British, French, and Indian nuclear forces.

First-hand accounts from the Arms Trade Treaty talks
February 13-17: IPPNW is joining more than 100 civil society participants from all continents to attend the meeting as members of the Control Arms Coalition. IPPNW serves on the steering board of this organization, a major NGO alliance working for a “bulletproof” Arms Trade Treaty.

IPPNW calls for diplomacy, not war, with Iran
February 8: IPPNW released a statement concerning the growing threat of military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. Several affiliates have plans to deliver the statement to their local Israeli and Iranian embassies and to urge their own governments to take a clear stand against military action against Iran.

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