This meeting should be a good launch for the actions planned on July 13th (Glasgow) and 14th (Edinburgh). Watch this space for details of organising meetings and further details of actions.

To book a bus from Edinburgh: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bus-from-edinburgh-to-faslane-for-the-22nd-september-international-rally-tickets-46794651061?utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button

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1. CND (UK)  have launched their  new website.
Its goal is to better serve the hundreds of thousands of people who visit each year to take action against nuclear weapons.
As recent global events testify, nuclear war and nuclear proliferation are a real and growing threat to world peace, and action towards the abolition of nuclear weapons has never been more necessary. Share the good news about our website by retweeting our message

Visit the website at the usual address – www.cnduk.org – and they will be delighted to receive your feedback. Your views were an essential ingredient in the new design, so drop us a line and let us know if there’s anything missing.

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3. BEYOND NUCLEAR: this week features: a group of mothers from Japan who testified at the UN about human rights for Fukushima evacuees; the US anti-nuclear movement’s longest standing Congressional champion; and marine groups who are warning Japan and the UK against dumping radioactive wastes into the oceans. Previous to that there are pieces about Uranium mining.

AUSTRALIA

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4. Basle Peace Office and partners: Nuclear abolition campaigners from around the world met in New York on May 11 to discuss strategies and to build cooperation amongst disarmament campaigns.

There were lively and productive discussions on nuclear risk-reduction, war prevention, ‘Move the Nuclear Weapons Money‘, nuclear-weapon-free zones, youth actions, engaging legislators and outreach to broader human rights, environment and faith-based communities.
There were also updates on key United Nations initiatives including the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament (see Nuclear Weapon States’ Long Arm Seen Behind Deferral of Landmark UN Conference) and the new initiative of the UN Secretary-General, which was released on May 24, 2018. May 24 was also the Women’s International Day for Peace and Disarmament. Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND) are using the occasion to release Common security for a sustainable and nuclear-weapon-free world, a joint parliamentary statement commemorating the day and supporting the UNSG’s initiative.   The statement, which has been endorsed by leading female parliamentarians from around the world, calls for ‘diplomacy, conflict resolution, common security and law to address security issues, rather than the threat or use of force.’  It notes that ‘The United Nations was established with an array of mechanisms through which nations can resolve conflicts, negotiate disarmament and achieve security through diplomacy not war. These have been supplemented by additional common security mechanisms such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. We urge governments to make better use of these common security mechanisms, and especially to replace reliance on nuclear deterrence with reliance on common security.’              The appeal, Common security for a sustainable and nuclear-weapon-free world, was also released Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, it is the new disarmament agenda released in Geneva today by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The statement has been endorsed by legislators from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Finland, Germany, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lichtenstein, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.                                                      PNND and UNFOLD ZERO actively promoted former UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s Five-Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament which was supported worldwide and was influential in advancing a framework for a nuclear-weapon-free world.