From May 30 - June 2 hundreds of people from around the world will convene in the village of Villingen-Schwenningen at the edge of the Black Forest in southwest Germany to discuss problems and solutions about armed violence at “Human
Target: International Congress on Social and Health Effects of the Global Arms Trade.” IPPNW members and others concerned about the devastating social and health effects of the global arms trade will be among them. It is no accident that this congress will take place near the headquarters of Heckler & Koch, a major European arms manufacturer, located in the pretty little town of Oberndorf am Neckar. 

• More information about the congress "Human target"

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• Interview with Dr. Helmut Lohrer, Vital Signs, Newsletter of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Vol 24, Issue 2, 2013

 

From May 24-26th, 2013 the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and the Macedonian affiliate "Physicians for peace and social responsibility" will hold the 11th Regional meeting in Struga, Macedonia. This will be the second time that  Macedonia is hosting the participants from Germany, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia  and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia, all of them committed to the main IPPNW goals.

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On 11 March 2011, a nuclear catastrophe occurred at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan in the wake of an earthquake and due to serious safety deficiencies. The initial health consequences of the nuclear catastrophe are now, two years after the incident, scientifically verifiable. Similar to the case of Chernobyl, a decline in the birth rate was documented in the nine months following the nuclear catastrophe. In the Fukushima Prefecture alone, some 55,592 children were diagnosed with thyroid gland nodules or cysts. In the long term there are many expected cases of cancer due to Fukushima. A new report of IPPNW Germany undertakes three assessments of the expected incidence of cancer resulting from external exposure to radiation.

• Summary of Report "Health consequences resulting from Fukushima" (German section of IPPNW)

• Critical Analysis of the WHO’s health risk assessment of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, Dr. Alex Rosen (German section of IPPNW)

The report "The delusional thinking behind a policy of nuclear deterrence" was launched at the House of Lords on February 6th 2013. Speakers at the launch included Kate Hudson of CND, Ben Zala of the Oxford Research Group and Frank Boulton of Medact. For more details please email info@medact.org - all welcome! The report - dedicated to Gill Reeve former director of Medact - can be downloaded here. Download document.

ICAN received many requests to transform Nuclear Abolition Day into a week of action. To facilitate this international mobilization, ICAN will develop captivating ideas and an advocacy strategy to make this yearly event a great success.
Please also save the following date: PSR Finland will hold an international Congress "Nuclear Exists" from 18th -19th October, 2013. Among the invited speakers are H.E. President Michael Gorbachev and H.E. President Frederick William de Klerk

• See www.icanw.org