2017
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Date photo taken
27 October 2017
Country of origin
Canada
Photo credit
Photo courtesy of Paula Cardenas
Description
Caption: Left to right: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) campaigners Setsuko Thurlow, Ray Acheson, and Cesar Jaramillo call on Canada to join a UN nuclear weapons ban at a press conference in Toronto on October 27, 2017. Jaramillo is the executive director of Project Ploughshares, an MCC partner.
Jaramillo says Project Ploughshares is honoured to be one of several civil society organizations affiliated with ICAN who are recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The coalition was honoured with the prize for its role in negotiating the UN's Treaty on the Probilition of Nuclear Weapons.
In July, the UN passed the treaty, the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit the weapons, with the goal of their total elimination. More than 100 countries have signed the treaty.
For those nations that are party to it, the treaty prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, including undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.