Hiroshima Mayor wins award for peace work

In the lead up to this Friday’s 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima and President of Mayors for Peace has been awarded the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Award.

The award is considered Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize and is named after a popular Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957.

Global Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day Events

Events: August 6 and 9

This year will be the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Events to commemarate the day will take place all over the world. Below is a preliminary list - we will add more events as they come to our attention.

Zero Is the Only Option: Medical and Environmental Effects

Report: 2010, IPPNW

A report based upon the work of prominent climate scientists and IPPNW experts on the medical consequences of nuclear war, and was officially launched during a special IPPNW seminar on May 5, 2010 at the NPT.

No More Victims of the Bomb: The Peace Boat in Bergen

News story: July 2010, Ursula Gelis

The Peace Boat Hibakusha Project organizes global voyages for a nuclear-free world. Peace Boat is a Japanese-based, international NGO, working since 1983 to promote peace and sustainability through the organization of peace voyages.

Guam: The Struggle Against Militarisation of the Pacific

PUBLIC FORUM, 8 July, 2010

A public forum that considered the implications of the current militarisation of Guam, and other issues concerning militarisation in the Pacific including the role of civil partnerships and broader security issues.