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World Council of Churches pushes for Nuclear Weapons Convention

Churches push for nuclear treaty at NPT Review conference, | Ekklesia, 7 May 2010, “…….after years of work – mostly by civil society groups including churches – a majority of the governments represented in New York are now in favour of starting work on a nuclear weapons convention. While the NPT was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and someday to reverse it, the proposed convention would ban them completely.

The first country to address the NPT conference, Indonesia speaking on behalf of the non-aligned movement, took up the call. Churches on five continents have joined the WCC and a wider civil society effort to promote a nuclear weapons convention at the NPT conference.

Hundreds of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are also in New York, part of a group of 2,000 Japanese Buddhists and Christians who have come with a determination to put a human face on nuclear danger, through demonstrations and workshops……Nearly 200 governments, 121 NGOs and thousands of demonstrators are in New York for the conference which began Monday 3 May and ends 28 May. Churches push for nuclear treaty at NPT Review conference | Ekklesia

May 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, Religion and ethics | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons