<[link removed]>Dear Friend,

This week, ICAN joined thousands of stakeholders at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. This event <[link removed]> takes place annually to facilitate dialogue between human rights defenders, investors, companies, NGOs and governments on cooperation for human rights protections.

One of the key issues under discussion was how to address concerns about the impact of weapons, technologies, defence and conflict on human rights ICAN, along with our partner PAX, hosted a roundtable discussion on ways the financial sector can resist the defence industry’s efforts to gain legitimacy through increased investment.



There has been a significant effort, especially across Europe, to encourage investors to remove their socially responsible investment policies or to make exceptions for nuclear weapons producers.

This is not because the defence sector doesn’t have enough money, it is a way to try and provide legitimacy for their activities- and for nuclear weapons.

It’s because nuclear weapons are overwhelmingly viewed as illegitimate by the majority of the world’s countries who recognise existing nuclear deterrence policies, with their inherent threat to indiscriminately kill hundreds of thousands, are preventing them from providing for the security of their own citizens.

It is because the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is growing, in numbers, in strength and in impact.

ICAN’s work is helping the treaty to grow, and helping people outside the nuclear disarmament bubble to understand the power of this new international legal norm. A norm so powerful in fact that we’ve kept about $4.7 trillion <[link removed]> out of the nuclear weapons industry.

Your support helps make that work possible, and we want to thank you for the many ways you help us. Whether it is by forwarding emails like this, amplifying our social media posts <[link removed]>, or if you are one of those who generously give <[link removed]> so we are able to keep challenging the wealthy nuclear weapons industry, thank you.

Together, we are dismantling the profit motives behind nuclear weapons.

Thank you,
Susi Snyder

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