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December 10th is International Human Rights Day and a good time to reflect about why nuclear weapons pose a threat to human rights around the world - and what we can do about it.

Nuclear weapons have already had devastating consequences for people around the world and have poisoned the land, water and air and threatened the health of future generations. These severe consequences have led UN human rights bodies to condemn nuclear weapons and investigate their impacts in recent years.

Nuclear weapons are a human rights issue. As the declaration of the UN Human Rights Committee says, the threat or use of nuclear weapons “is incompatible with respect for the right to life”. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises the threat to the Right to Health posed by the use and testing of nuclear weapons (pdf <[link removed]>), while the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW <[link removed]>) links nuclear policies to gender equity.

Recently, the Council has been investigating <[link removed]> the human rights implications of the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands in a series of reports, to which ICAN has provided substantive input. 

With the recent confusing but alarming statement from the U.S. President about returning to nuclear testing <[link removed]>, it is more important than ever to highlight the human rights impacts of past nuclear use, and that these impacts continue to today. 

Nuclear weapons violate the Right to Life to the Right to Health- they are also a fundamental problem when it comes to Eliminating Discrimination Against Women. On International Human Rights day, stand with us for human rights and an end to nuclear weapons.







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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons broke new ground by prohibiting nuclear weapons worldwide, in recognition of their catastrophic humanitarian consequences, and in compliance with international human rights law. Governments that have joined this Treaty are speaking out about the impacts of nuclear weapons and taking action to prevent them from posing further harm by working for their total elimination.

This international human rights day, can you help us to spread the word about how nuclear weapons are a major human rights violation, and join us <[link removed]> in getting your countries to join the treaty to eliminate them?

Onwards,
Alicia

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