Please join us as we celebrate the 4th anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!
We will have signs and banners, but feel free to bring your own.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
It entered into force on January 22, 2021, and celebrates its fourth anniversary on January 22, 2025!
JOIN Rochester Veterans For Peace Chapter 23, Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace (GVCP), and allies in celebrating the 4th anniversary of the TPNW:
- When: Sunday, January 19, 12 noon-1:00 pm
- Where: The corner of Goodman and East Ave, Rochester NY
Global Pushback Against the Nuclear Threat
In 2024, we saw a strong global pushback against the nuclear threat. The danger of nuclear weapons use loomed larger than ever, with mounting tensions, escalatory rhetoric, irresponsible policy changes, and with the conflicts in Russia and the Middle East driving up the risk. All around the world, antinuclear activists spoke out and took bold, powerful action, demanding their governments do their part to get rid of nuclear weapons once and for all.
Progress on the Treaty
We now have half of the world—representing over 2.5 billion people—on board with the treaty banning nuclear weapons. Indonesia, Sierra Leone, and Solomon Islands became the most recent to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), in a clear signal of the global support for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and the ban as a way to get there. São Tomé and Príncipe ratified at the beginning of 2024. With these latest ratifications, there are now 73 states parties.
Heeding the Hibakusha’s Call
For 80 years, the survivors of nuclear weapons use and testing have shared their stories to demand action to end nuclear weapons for good. Now they are asking that we take on their mission and loudly demand a world free of nuclear weapons.
“Let not humanity destroy itself with nuclear weapons! Let us work together for a human society, in a world free of nuclear weapons and of wars!”
Terumi Tanaka, survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize