Archives

Aiming For Prevention

• 8th World Injury Conference, 2006 - Durban South Africa
• Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms 2005
• Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms 2003
• World Health Organization's report on Violence and Health 2002

IPPNW World Congress

• I7th World Congress, 2006 - Helsinki, Finland
  
• 16th World Congress, 2004 - Beijing, China
  
• 15th World Congress, 2002 - Washington DC, US
  
• 14th World Congress, 2000 - Paris, France
  

Nobel Peace Prize

• Nobel Prize Perspective: the Past is Ever Present - article in Helix Magazine
  
• 1985 Nobel acceptance speech by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Bernard Lown
  
• 1985 Nobel acceptance speech by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Evgueni Chazov
  

Nobel Laureates

• IPPNW congratulates Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA - 2005 Nobel Peace Laureate
  
• 2005 statement from the 6th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates - Rome, Italy
  
• 2004 statement from the 5th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates - Rome, Italy
  
• 2004 transcript from IPPNW Co-president Dr. Westberg and IPPNW International Student Representative, Alex Rosen at the Summit discussing terroism
  
• IPPNW congratulates President Jimmy Carter - 2002 Nobel Peace Laureate
  

Nuclear Energy

• Posters with concise facts on nuclear energy
  Available in nine languages. Provided by IPPNW Germany
• Chernobyl: A 20 Year Catastrophe; A Lesson for the Future
  IPPNW affiliates around the world commemorated the April 26th, 1986 disaster with reports and international conferences

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

• IPPNW joins international civil society appeal to Kofi Annan for 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
• MAPW (Australian affiliate) voice concern over uranium exports to China - April 5, 2006
• IPPNW condemns dangerous new direction in French nuclear policy - January 20, 2006
• It's time to abolish nuclear weapons (pdf) by Sue Warham from the Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol.59, No.4 - 2005
• IPPNW Assessment of the 2005 NPT Review Conference - 6/21/2005
• Looking at the NPT and Beyond , Dr. Ron McCoy - April 2005
• MAPW on the 2005 NPT
• "Nuclear Disarmament: What Now?!" 13 prominent disarmament experts' views on the status and future of the 13 Practical Steps to Disarmament have been published by the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The 2005 edition includes an introduction by Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under-Secretary General of the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs.
• IPPNW at the 2004 NPT PrepCom
• IPPNW at the 2003 NPT PrepCom
• Anna Lindh's Statement to the 2000 NPT Review Conference
  

Nuclear / Biological Terrorism and Weapons

• Sudden Death: A physician recognized the hazards that persist in a post-nuclear age and vows to allow no harm, Dr. Bernard Lown, IPPNW Co-Founder - Summer 2006
• MAPW releases statement to voice concern over uranium exports to China
• IPPNW Calls on US to Renounce Nuclear Strike Plans Against Iran
  IPPNW - March 10, 2006
• Black Dawn Nuclear Terrorism Study Presented to NATO
  Dr. Gunnar Westberg - 8/23/2005
• Projected Casualties Among U.S. Military Personnel and Civilian Populations from the Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Hard and Deeply Buried Targets , Drs. Peter Wilk, Sarah Stanlick, Martin Butcher, Michael McCally, Ira Helfand, Robert Gould, John Pastore - May 2005
• International Cooperation in Addressing the Risks Related to Biological Agents,
  Dr. Ron McCoy - 3/16/2004
• Nuclear Apartheid Spawns Proliferation by Dr. Ron McCoy
• Medical Consequences of Nuclear "Bunker Busters"
• North Korean Nuclear Weapons
• North Korea: Time for More Talks and Fewer Threats

Nuclear Testing

• IPPNW responds to DPRK Nuclear Test by IPPNW - October 9, 2006
• IPPNW condemns dangerous new direction in French nuclear policy by IPPNW Co-Presidents, Dr. Ron McCoy and Dr. Gunnar Westberg - January 20, 2006
• IPPNW Opposes the joint US/UK Subcritical Nuclear Testing in Nevada by Michael Christ, IPPNW Executive Director - March 2, 2006
• The Threat of Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons to Civilian Populations: Nuclear “Bunker Busters” and Their Medical Consequences by Drs. Victor W. Sidel, Jack Geiger, Herbert L. Abrams, Robert W. Nelson, and John Loretz - March 2003
• IPPNW Supports CTBT Entry-Into-Force - 9/8/2003

Peace & Health

• Uniting for Peace: IPPNW Endorses Call for Comprehensive Middle East Peace Process
• Peace As Preventive Medicine: Interview with Dr. Victor Sidel
• Global Health Alerts Project is a collaborative, educational outreach project of IPPNW.

Practicing Peace in South Asia

• IPPNW called for release of peace and pro-democracy activists in Nepal
  letter from IPPNW (Jan 2006)
  letter from Nepal (Feb 2006)
• Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) earthquake relief in India and Pakistan - November 2005
• "Abuja Declaration" (African regional conference)
• "Kathmandu Declaration" (South Asian regional conference)
• Indian National Conference report and photos, Dr. Nalini Kurvey - 7/24/2005
• IDPD Tamil Nadu Chapter Tsunami Relief Work, December 2004
  
• Joint Symposium of Indian and Pakistan Doctors in Karachi, Pakistan -12/12/2004
• Special Report: Dialogues With Decision Makers in Pakistan and India - 3/2/2004

The War Against Iraq

• Lancet: study estimates 650,000 deaths due to Iraq War - 10/11/2006
• Appeal to President Bush during his visit to Germany - February 2005
• Medact Report: The Enduring Effects of War: Health in Iraq 2004 - 2004
• Medact Report: Collateral Damage" - 2002
• PSR Statement on Crisis in Iraq - June 2004
• Protesting the War Against Iraq
• IPPNW Protests Decision to Halt Civilian Casualty Counts - 12/11/2003
• Statement on Launch of War - 3/20/2003
• IPPNW's International Petition
• Reports from Fact-Finding Missions in Iraq
• Continuing Collateral Damage: The health and environmental costs of war on Iraq
• Iraq and Smart Security by Dr. John O. Pastore, David Rush
• Iraq: The Spectre of Nuclear War by Dr. Ron McCoy
• The Human Cost of War With Iraq by Michael Christ
• Which Principle Mr Downer? by Dr. Sue Wareham
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki

• Nagasaki Peace Declaration 2006
• Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2006
• Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2005
• World Appeal on the 60th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2005
• Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2003
• Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Declarations 2002
• Hiroshima, an awful lesson of history by Dr. Sue Wareham
• Educational resource for secondary school students and educators
  on nuclear weapons and disarmament (a brief history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki included)

Selected IPPNW Statements and Appeals

• IPPNW strongly supports UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call for a Middle East ceasefire -7/31/2006
  
• Appeal to President Bush during his visit to Germany - February 2005
• Statement on Launch of War - 3/20/2003
• War in Sudan: IPPNW Letter to Egyptian President Mubarak - 2002
• IPPNW statement on Anniversary of September 11, 2001 - 9/11/2002
  
  

Selected Speeches

• Transcript from the IPPNW 25th anniversary event by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Bernard Lown -10/2/2005
  
• Message from the former leader of Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev read at the IPPNW 25th anniversary event -10/2/2005
  
• Dr. John O. Pastore on Nuclear Terrorism -3/12/2005
• Never Whisper in the Presence of Wrong by Dr. Bernard Lown
• 1985 Nobel acceptance speech by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Bernard Lown
  
• 1985 Nobel acceptance speech by IPPNW cofounder Dr. Evgueni Chazov
  

Other Additions to the Archives

• Olympic Truce Initiative
• 2003 OPANAL Conference (Treaty of Tlatelolco)