ICAN - Inter'l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

In 2017 ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ICAN was started by a group of Melbourne doctors. It was recognised for ‘its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons’.

Since then, ICAN has been mobilising international support for a United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It opened for signature at the United Nations in New York on 20 September 2017 and entered into force on 22 January 2021. There are currently 86 signatories and 66 states parties.

Join us as we hear from Gem Romuld, ICAN’s Director in Australia, as she explains the humanitarian imperatives behind the TPNW, what it calls for and Australia’s response to date.

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