Nuclear Weapons
The elimination of all nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian and public health imperative.
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Armed violence is a public health crisis that can be prevented using a public health approach.
Peace and Health Blog
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- Nuclear weapons abolition must be part of the climate agenda
- “We will not be silent in the face of evil”
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- Bye-bye world: while nuclear weapons and wars exist, annihilation beckons
In late April, IPPNW hosted our 23rd World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya. “Disarmament, Climate Crisis, and Health” was our first World Congress in Africa and our first hybrid Congress, with sessions highlighting and linking the health consequences of the climate crisis and nuclear weapons. As the Congress Declaration states, “our responsibility is to prevent what we cannot cure. IPPNW rededicates itself… to a habitable world free from the threat of nuclear extinction and climate catastrophe”. Read the declaration in full here.
On April 13, Dr. Ira Helfand, IPPNW immediate past-President, was awarded the prestigious Morehouse College Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders’ Prize “to recognize and pay tribute to [his] passionate and nonviolent struggle to prevent humanity from falling victim to the horrors of nuclear disaster.”
The award is named for Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Daisaku Ikeda. Past recipients of the award include Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Dr. Helfand gave the keynote address in the MLK Chapel at Morehouse. As part of the honor, an oil portrait of Ira will be hung in the Hall of Honor in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. His remarks can be found in full here and below.