Campaign News
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US-Iran tensions: Australia must reject nuclear weapons
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Open threats to use and develop nuclear weapons have again hit the headlines this week. As tensions escalate, so does the risk of nuclear conflict. As a state party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty,...
2019 in review
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Over the last year the precariousness of our existence has only become more apparent. The spectre of nuclear war continues to hover just out of sight, while the climate crisis advances unabated. Only powerful civil society movements will stop these twin...
All Aboard! Peace Boat workshop series
Peace Boat is returning to Australia in January 2020 and teaming up with local campaigns to promote peace and catalyse action. A longstanding partner organisation of ICAN, Peace Boat creates a neutral, mobile space and enables people to engage across borders in...
Launch of Quit Nukes: nuclear weapon free finance
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Today we officially launched Quit Nukes - nuclear weapon free finance, a new joint campaign with the Medical Association for Prevention of War. We are advocating for Australian super funds to cut ties with nuclear weapon producers. Polling shows that 69%...
Candidates behind the ban
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Candidates for the 2019 Australian federal election are joining their parliamentary colleagues in declaring support for Australia to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. If elected, candidates that “pre-pledge” will be...
Australian Labor party commits to joining Nuclear Ban Treaty
CAMPAIGN NEWS: December 18, 2018 The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) applauds the Australian Labor Party for committing to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons when in government. The policy commitment took place...
Nobel Peace Ride
CAMPAIGN NEWS:In September 2018, ICAN journeyed from Melbourne to Canberra by bicycle, touring our Nobel Peace Prize medal and raising awareness of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Beginning on September 2 in Melbourne, the birthplace of ICAN, we...
Making Waves Speaking Tour
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The Japanese and Australian Governments have not yet signed the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, claiming instead to be protected by the nuclear weapons of the United States. In both nations, powerful civil society movements are...
Australian nuclear test survivor speaks at UN
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Kokatha nuclear test survivor, Sue Coleman-Haseldine, addressed more than 120 Governments gathered at the United Nations to negotiate a treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons from 27-31 March 2017. The Australian Government did not participate...
Australia’s opposition to a nuclear weapon ban
CAMPAIGN NEWS: This report, based on freedom of information research, describes Australia’s obstructive role at the recently concluded UN working group on nuclear disarmament in Geneva, which recommended negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons in 2017....