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By Emily Defina, Legal Adviser with the International
Committee of the Red Cross
It was 1995. Thousands
of people marched peacefully hand-in-hand through the
Tahitian capital of Pape’ete. The palm-lined streets were
awash with songs of protest. On a nearby shorefront, Cook
Islander warriors had just arrived by traditional voyaging
canoe: a vaka. They were there to deliver a message of
solidarity with their island neighbours, en route to the
nuclear test site of Moruroa. These warriors, sailing at the
forefront of the Pacific’s fight against nuclear weapons,
delivered their message of peaceful resistance with prayers,
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The Atomic Bomb Dome is pictured on Aug. 4, 2020, in Hiroshima, Japan. Last year marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, in which 90,000 to 146,000 people were killed and the entire city was destroyed in the first use of a nuclear weapon in armed conflict. Getty Images
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By Mimi Lang
On Jan. 22, the “Ban the Bomb” movement is coming to a town, city, state or country near you. This is a momentous occasion in relation to protecting the world from the disaster of nuclear weapons. Since the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago, countries throughout the world have been advocating for a ban on nuclear weapons. It has been 51 years since the United Nations General Assembly passed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 191 countries signed it. The treaty is reviewed and renewed every five years.
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An activist dressed up as President Trump rides an atomic bomb model during a protest for a world without nuclear weapons near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, July 30, 2020. | Fabian Sommer / dpa via AP
Arguably the first step in half a century to eliminate nuclear weapons, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) makes it internationally illegal to “develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess, or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.”