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Dear Friend,
Today is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests and the 34th
anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, in
Kazakhstan, on 29 August 1991.
It is an important day to learn about the ongoing impacts of the
more than 2,000 nuclear detonations that have harmed people and the
planet for decades, and to support the advocacy of nuclear survivors
working to address those harms and press for nuclear abolition.
It was thanks to a transnational survivor-led activist movement,
the Nevada-Semipalatinsk
International Anti-Nuclear Movement, that the Semipalatinsk Site
was closed more than 30 years ago.
This international solidarity continues to this day.
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In March, young Qazaq
and Indigenous activists in the United States convened at the United
Nations for an
event they called “Nevada-Semey 2.0: Transnational Solidarity and
Intergenerational Advocacy towards Nuclear Justice.” This meeting,
taking place on the sidelines of the Third Meeting of States Parties
to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), connected
advocates from both nations to amplify their collective voice in the
ongoing struggle for nuclear justice. |
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Survivors from around the globe came to the UN in March for the
TPNW meeting. They engaged in discussions with diplomats on the
Treaty’s provisions on assisting survivors and remediating nuclear
contaminated environments and connected with other survivors at the
dozens of civil society- and survivor-led meetings taking place inside
and outside
of the UN.
You can learn more about where nuclear weapons have been detonated,
what their impacts have been, including listening directly to
survivors, and about their advocacy for justice on this interactive
map website.
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Take a look and share
what you learned, on social media, or in conversation with a
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Did you know the explosion from a nuclear test
itself would allow you to see the bones through your hands? ICAN's
interactive nuclear testing map shares the stories of survivors of
nuclear testing across the world, in their own words. #nuclearban
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Onwards,
Alicia Sanders-Zakre
ICAN Policy and Research Coordinator
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ICAN · Place de Cornavin
2, Geneve 1201, Switzerland
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