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“Do we really need nuclear weapons? Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the time of COVID-19”

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
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Your questions to speakers: In addition to the respective chat boxes available on Facebook/YouTube, you may also put questions and comments related to our topic in Forms in an anonymous manner. https://forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Post event survey: We would much appreciate your time and contribution to the survey after the event. Your valuable feedback will help us to improve our future events. https://forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... What we cannot prepare for, we must prevent. 75 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is high time to ban these uniquely inhumane weapons of war and to honor the memor …...more
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“Do we really need nuclear weapons? Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the time of COVID-19”
Your questions to speakers: In addition to the respective chat boxes available on Facebook/YouTube, you may also put questions and comments related to our topic in Forms in an anonymous manner. https://forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Post event survey: We would much appreciate your time and contribution to the survey after the event. Your valuable feedback will help us to improve our future events. https://forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... What we cannot prepare for, we must prevent. 75 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is high time to ban these uniquely inhumane weapons of war and to honor the memory of the hundreds of thousands of victims of bombings. Prohibiting and eliminating weapons with catastrophic humanitarian consequences should not be controversial. Yet, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has not entered into force and we are seeing the worrying trends towards a new nuclear arms race. As this year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must continue conveying a message to the world that the use of such weapons, under any circumstances, would be unacceptable in humanitarian, moral and legal terms. And we must strive to keep the evidence of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons at the center of the debate. Because we believe that voices of the A-bomb victims, Hibakusha, should be amplified, this online event will also contribute to the efforts to preserve the memories and testimonies of Hibakusha and their experience of the atomic bombings for the next generation with increased engagement with youth as a vector. Programme (CEST) 11:00-11:05 Opening remarks by Mr. Ken Hirata, Vice-Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture 11:05-11:40 First Dialogue in Japanese (with English interpretation) ・Facilitator: Mr. Seiji Miyamoto (Yahoo! News Producer and Professor of Rikkyo University Graduate school) ・Mr. Shigemitsu Tanaka (Chairman of Nagasaki Atomicbomb Survivors Council and Hibakusha) ・Mr. Tomihisa Taue (Mayor of Nagasaki) ・Ms. Shiori Iwataka (Nagasaki Youth Delegation 8th) ・Ms. Yuko Tabira (Storyteller of Atomic Bombing Experiences) 11:40-12:00 Q&A 12:00-12:35 Second Dialogue in English ・Facilitator: Mr. Julian Borger (World affairs editor of The Guardian News & Media) ・Gilles Carbonnier (Vice-President of ICRC) ・Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu (UN USG and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs) ・Ms. Beatrice Fihn (Executive Director of ICAN) ・Mr. Ban Ki-moon (Former UN Secretary-General / Deputy Chair of the Elders) 12:35-12:55 Q&A 12:55-13:00 Closing remarks by Regis Savioz, ICRC Head of Delegation in Japan END Host : Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki City, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Sponsors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS), Yahoo! News, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Language: Youtube live will be broadcast in English. Facebook liveは日本語で配信されます(   / live   ) Contact: ICRC delegation in Japan, E-mail: tok_tokyo@icrc.org Website : http://jp.icrc.org/event/nagasaki-eve...

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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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