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ICAN: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty.
CND: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CND campaigns non-violently to achieve British nuclear disarmament – to get rid of the Trident nuclear weapons system and stop its replacement. But we recognise that Britain’s nuclear weapons are only a small part of the problem, so we also campaign for a global nuclear weapons ban.
IPPNW: International Physicians for the Prevention of the Nuclear War
is a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 64 countries, representing tens of thousands of doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
OPCW: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
The mission of the OPCW is to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention in order to achieve our vision for a world that is free of chemical weapons and of the threat of their use, and in which cooperation in chemistry for peaceful purposes for all is fostered.
Nuclear Abolition Forum
As an independent forum, we aim at exploring the legal, technical, institutional and political elements for achieving a nuclear weapons free world.

Every year, since 1983 Daisaku Ikeda has written and presented a peace proposal to the United Nations in the effort to realize peace and human security. The proposals from 2000 onwards are available at Daisaku Ikeda Website.

A Forum for Peace: Daisaku Ikeda’s Proposals to the UN by Olivier Urbain (Editor)
Call Number: JZ5538 .I38 2013
ISBN: 1780768397
"While the proposals themselves are both wide-ranging and specific (covering topics as diverse as counter-terrorism relations; the prohibition of child soldiers; denuclearization of the Arctic; and strategies to prevent global warming), the common denominator at their center is the role and effectiveness of the United Nations in addressing structural challenges and inequality. This substantial volume brings together excerpts from the most topical and important of Ikeda’s peace proposals. Themes like human security, the empowerment of women, nuclear disarmament and the centrality of dialogue are throughout informed by an unshakeable belief in the potential and promise of the UN’s world mission..."

Commentaries by Daisaku Ikeda in The Japan Times (9/11/2003 - 1/5/2017)
Of all 31 commentaries published during the period, many of them are about nuclear disarmament. The latest commentary on 1/5/2017: Ban Treaty Offers Chance for a World Free of Nuclear Arms. "Nearly 130 states are participating in U.N. negotiations to prohibit nuclear weapons, but nuclear-weapons states and nuclear-dependent states, including Japan, are not among their number..."
Letters from Hibakusha Animated Stories of A-Bomb Survivors
For NHK's "Letters from Hibakusha" project, the broadcaster received 2,200 written recollections of the 1945 atomic bombings. 4 of them were chosen this year and recreated as short animations. The memoirs include the story of a survivor's struggle to make ends meet, a teenager's quest to find his first love in the aftermath, and the parting words of a dying girl. NHK hopes that teenagers today may gain an insight into the experiences of people who were much like them when they had their dreams snatched away. (Available until September 7, 2019)
TIME Special "After the Bomb: Survivors of the Atomic Blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Share their Stories