Statements

Official IPPNW Statements

• January 2, 2008: IPPNW responds to the crises in Pakistan and Kenya
• August 17, 2007: IPPNW, Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) issue a statement on the agreement between US and India
• April 23, 2007: IPPNW launches international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN)
• April 19, 2007: Open Letter to the Murderers of Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki
• September 8, 2006: "If you want peace, work for health!" Statement of the 17th World Congress
• September 7, 2006: IPPNW Board's five-point program for 2007
• Unequivocal Undertaking: Rhetoric Must Now Become Reality: IPPNW Statement on Conclusion of 2000 NPT Review Conference (2000)
• Commitment to Disarmamament Is Key to NPT Success: IPPNW Statement at 2003 NPT PrepCom (2003)
• Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Testing, and Depleted Uranium Weapons: Medical Consequences and Implications for NPT Compliance: IPPNW Statement at the 2003 NPT PrepCom (2003)
• The Human Tragedy of Proliferation and Nuclear Rearmament: IPPNW Statement at the 2004 NPT PrepCom (2004)
• IPPNW joins international civil society appeal to Kofi Annan for a UN Commission to mediate Iran nuclear crisis
  Click here to view the extensive list of signatories (in German) and here to read the response from the Secretary-General's office
• IPPNW and 400 other organizations join in an appeal for a non-violent, diplomatic resolution to eliminate the threat of a nuclear weapons program in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


• July 31, 2006:IPPNW strongly supports UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call for a Middle East ceasefire
  
• Appeal to President Bush during his visit to Germany - February 2005
• March 20, 2003: Statement on Launch of War
• War in Sudan: IPPNW Letter to Egyptian President Mubarak - 2002
• September 11, 2002: Anniversary of September 11, 2001
  
  

Affiliate Statements

• IPPNW, Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) issue a statement on the agreement between US and India
• IPPNW's Australian affiliate, MAPW voices concern over uranium exports to China
  • April 5, 2006
  • Coalition statement by MAPW and several other Australian peace organizations, April 5, 2006
  • March 31, 2006 (press release)
• March 10, 2006: IPPNW Calls on US to Renounce Nuclear Strike Plans Against Iran
  

Peace Declarations and World Appeals (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

• Nagasaki Peace Declaration - 2007, 2006, 2002
• Hiroshima Peace Declaration - 2007, 2006, 2005, 2002
• World Appeal - 2005, 1989

Selected speeches and transcripts

For other speeches please explore our Past Events and Publications sections.

• October 2, 2005: Transcript from the IPPNW 25th anniversary event by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Bernard Lown
  
• October 2, 2005: Message from the former leader of Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev read at the IPPNW 25th anniversary event
  
• March 12, 2005: Dr. John O. Pastore on Nuclear Terrorism