 75 new cities join Mayors for Peace on September 1st 2010
We have 4,144 member cities from 144 countries and regions.
Mayor Akiba of Hiroshima City, President of Mayors for Peace, receives the Magsaysay Award.(August 2, 2010)
Mayor Akiba is the recipient of this year’s the Ramon Magsaysay Award, for his activities related to peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020 (Finished)(July 30, 2010)
Mayors for Peace Newsletter No.29(PDF file)(July 30, 2010)
Participation in the 8th NPT Review Conference in May
(June 18, 2010)
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Mayors for Peace formed a mayoral delegation of 89 people from 30 member cities in 10 countries and participated in the NPT Review Conference held in New York, USA. |
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Historical First! All Nicaraguan municipalities join Mayors for Peace.(April 9, 2010)
All of the municipalities of Nicaragua have joined Mayors for Peace
This is the world’s first country to have all cities become members!
Mayors for Peace launched an "Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons"
to promote its "2020 Vision," a program to eliminate all nuclear
weapons by the year 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Attending the 2008 NPT Preparatory Committee (April 2008)
Representatives, including mayors, from Mayors for Peace member cities
comprised the Mayoral Delegation, and attended the Preparatory Committee
for the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Review Conference held in
Geneva, Switzerland. President Akiba delivered a speech at the NGO session
and also announced the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol.
Mayors for Peace supports AFS Petition for a Global Expansion of Educational
Youth Exchange Programs
AFS is sponsoring a major, high profile undertaking for its 60th anniversary
year that will be a Petition Drive to gather signatures in supports of
a global expansion of youth exchange programs. Please join this petition
drive to promote peace through intercultural understanding.
Mayor Akiba and Mayors for Peace Win the 2007 Nuclear - Free Future Award(Oct.23, 2007)
The Franza-Moll Foundaton has given Mayor Akiba and Mayors for Peace its
2007 Nuclear - Free Future Award in recognition of its achievements in
arousing international public demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons
and lasting world peace through the 2020 Vision and other global peace
promotion activities.
Cities Are Not Targets(CANT)project Petition Drive(Feb, 2007)
Please participate in the petition drive associated with this project.
Mayors for Peace will deliver your message to the nuclear-weapon states
and to the United Nations.
Mayors for Peace Wins the IPB Sean MacBride Award
The international peace NGO IPB has given Mayors for Peace its Sean MacBride Peace Prize in recognition of its achievements in arousing international public demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons and lasting world peace through the 2020 Vision (Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons) and other global peace promotion activities.
2020 Vision Campaign International Campaign Secretariat Opened in Ieper, Belgium(July, 2006)
ICJ 10th Anniversary Commemorative Events
On the occasion of 10th anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion stating “… the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law”, we held commemorative meetings in The Hague (The Netherlands) and Brussels (Belgium) in July 2006. The new campaign, the Good Faith Challenge, Phase II of our 2020 Vision Campaign, launched at these occasions.
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Hiroshima Peace Site
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Website
We will be glad to loan you our Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb posters. 