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September 26, 2022, is the ninth International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Join people around the world in celebrating the vision of a nuclear weapons free world, raising awareness and calling on their leaders to advance nuclear disarmament.
The day is part of the UN High Level period running from September 21 (UN Day for Peace) until October 2 (UN Day for Non-violence).
We encourage you to endorse Protect People and the Planet: Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, join the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money social media action, and call on your government to promote nuclear disarmament at the UN High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons September 26, 2022. Details below.
a) affirm that a nuclear war should never be fought,
b) call for the total elimination of nuclear weapons no later than 2045, and
c) support the end of investments in the nuclear weapons industry.
Send a letter or email or tweet to your President/Prime Minister/Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United Nations, calling on them to promote nuclear abolition at the UN High Level Meeting on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons which takes place on September 26, 2022.
Sample letter to your government urging them to promote nuclear abolition effectively in UN General Assembly and the UN High-Level Meeting on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (September 26, 2022).
Dear …
The President of the UN General Assembly hosts a High Level Meeting on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26.
I/we urge you to speak at these meetings on the importance to: a) prevent any use of nuclear of nuclear weapons; b) achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world, and c) cut nuclear weapons budgets and investments.
Any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic human, economic and environmental consequences. The use of just a small fraction of the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world’s stockpiles could end civilization as we know it. In addition, the $100 billion spent annually on nuclear weapons is sorely needed for environmental, economic and human needs, including addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
I/we encourage you in particular to:
Thank you
[your name]
Country leaders and UN ambassadors contact emails and twitter handles:
The nuclear arms industry is one of the most powerful drivers for the nuclear arms race. A handful of companies are making billions of dollars by manufacturing nuclear weapons and their dedicated delivery systems. They lobby for increased nuclear weapons budgets. And they stimulate tensions between the nuclear amrs powers to justify these massive budgets.
Help take back the power (and money) from the nuclear weapons industry by joining the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign.
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A Global Appeal to end the nuclear threat, abolish nuclear weapons and shift the weapons budgets and investments to support public health, COVID-19 recovery, the climate and sustainable development.
The appeal was launched on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, September 20, 2020, and will be presented to the UN General Assembly during Disarmament Week, Oct 24-30, 2022.
The nuclear weapons possessed by nine countries threaten us all. Any use of these weapons by accident, miscalculation or malicious intent, would have catastrophic human, economic and environmental consequences. The use of just a small fraction of the 14,000 nuclear weapons in the world’s stockpiles could end civilization as we know it.
In addition, the $100 billion spent annually on nuclear weapons is sorely needed for environmental, economic and human needs, including addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, protecting the climate and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
We, the undersigned, call on our cities, parliaments and governments to:
We invite you to endorse the appeal and provide a quote for social media promotion.
See the list of current endorsers plus quotes from some of the endorsers.
Established by the United Nations General Assembly, the aim of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is to enhance ‘public awareness and education about the threat posed to humanity by nuclear weapons and the necessity for their total elimination, in order to mobilize international efforts towards achieving the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.’
The resolution establishing the day also calls for the immediate start of multilateral negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention – a global treaty by nuclear armed, nuclear allied and non-nuclear States to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
The day is supported by UNFOLD ZERO and the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs. UNFOLD ZERO provides a platform for governments, parliaments and civil society to post announcements, photos and reports of actions and events to commemorate this day.
The Inter Parliamentary Union (164 member parliaments) has called on all parliamentarians to promote and commemorate the day.
ACTION 2
Join a social media action:
Move the Nuclear Weapons Money
Take back the power (and money) from the nuclear weapons industry.