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UN Member States urged to prevent nuclear war and take action to eliminate nuclear weapons

Joint Appeal is sent to UN Member States.
Join Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands,
the Nuclear Abolition Day Social Media Action
Plus some exciting in-person events for Nuclear Abolition Day

The United Nations has declared September 26 to be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and will hold a High-Level Meeting of Presidents, Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors of UN Member States this coming Friday to commemorate the day and advance nuclear disarmament. 

NuclearAbolitionDay.org, a network of civil society organizations working in consultation with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs to promote the day, sent a Joint Appeal to all UN Member States today, calling on them to use the opportunity of the High-Level Meeting to: 

• Affirm that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible;
• Stand down nuclear forces and adopt policies never to initiate a nuclear war;
• Cut nuclear weapons budgets and investments, and redirect these to support the United Nations, enhance peacekeeping and international conflict resolution, protect the climate and advance sustainable development;
• Commit to achieving the global elimination of nuclear weapons no later than 2045, the 100th anniversary of the UN.

The Joint Appeal has been endorsed by over 300 organizations as well as another 500 individuals, including legislators, former high-level officials (such as foreign ministers and UN officials), religious leaders, medical practitioners, academics/teachers, youth leaders, private sector (corporate) leaders and others (see below for a sample of the endorsers). 

There is still time to endorse the Joint Appeal, if you have not already done so, before it is presented to the High-Level Meeting by Dr. Deepshikha Kumari Vijh, Executive Director of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and Coordination Team Member for the September 26 Nuclear Abolition Day Working Group.

Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands

Social Media action for Nuclear Abolition Day, September 26

We invite everyone, where-ever you are in the world, to undertake the September 26 social media action Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands. The action is based on a hand raised with palm facing forwards, which is a universal message to stop. Hands are also what we use to greet each other, create things and build cooperation. 

For this social media action, we use our hands or the NuclearAbolitionDay hand graphic to symbolically stop nuclear weapons and to build cooperation for a peaceful, nuclear-weapon-free world.​

September 24, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized