About Mayors for Peace
Mayors for Peace was founded in 1982 by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to promote the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the realisation of genuine and lasting world peace.
A network supported by the VLGA, Mayors for Peace currently has 3,968 member cities from 143 countries and regions from around the world
(current 2011).
The Australian Chapter is convened by Cr Helen Relph from
Macedon Ranges Shire Council in Victoria.
Latest News
To find out what is happening across the globe, visit the Mayors for Peace website
www.mayorsforpeace.org.
View the latest email update from Pol DHuyvetter, October 2010
here.
Hiroshima Mayor, China activists win 'Asian Nobel', August 2010 - see full article
here.
Nuclear weapons have received a great deal of coverage including attempts to reduce their numbers and the gathering of 50 world leaders and nations in Washington in mid April 2010. Here is a valuable summary article from the Age Newspaper:
In Prague in early April, the US and Russian presidents moved global disarmament efforts a small step forward by signing a new bilateral nuclear arms reduction treaty. The so-called New Start treaty limits the two countries' arsenals to 1550 deployed warheads each.
While the commitments are modest, the pact is a step in the right direction.
But civil society is demanding much more. We believe it is time to move beyond arms control, and focus squarely on outlawing and eliminating nuclear weapons once and for all. With the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference just weeks away, now is a crucial time to act for abolition. Together we can help to fast-track the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.
In Germany, a group representing
58,000 physicists has just called for governments to “take the historical opportunity to start negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention for the prohibition and the gradual, verifiable, irreversible, and transparent elimination of all nuclear weapons”.
Japanese campaigners have collected more than
six million petition signatures supporting a nuclear abolition treaty. And hundreds of Belgian activists were recently arrested for challenging their government's policy of keeping US nuclear weapons on their territory.
Current Activity
The activities of the Australian Chapter are outlined
here and for information on international activities visit the official Mayors for Peace website via
www.mayorsforpeace.org.
Contact Details
Australian Convenor
Cr Helen Relph
M: 0418 398 856
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