IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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The blog provides news and opinion from the international medical movement to abolish nuclear weapons and prevent war. IPPNW is a non-partisan federation of national medical organizations representing 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.
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
5d ago
[The following statement was adopted by IPPNW’s International Council (IC) at the conclusion of our June 2024 virtual IC and Board meetings.] Today humankind faces the twin existential threats of climate change and nuclear war. The former is already making large parts of our planet uninhabitable; far greater climate action is critically needed. For nuclear ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1w ago
[The following is an edited version of a presentation made by IPPNW board member and former co-president Tilman Ruff at an IPPNW side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on 31 May. The event was co-sponsored by Austria, Kazakhstan, and Mexico.] I’m honoured to say a few words on behalf of IPPNW to ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1w ago
International law―the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights―has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike. To implement this law, the nations of the world have established a UN Security Council (to maintain international peace and security) and a ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
by Dr. Bimal Khadka, originally published to Medact’s blog on May 1, 2024. Back in December, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), better known as COP28, hosted an unprecedented assembly of health delegates – setting a historic benchmark. I attended the conference as part of a ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
Book review of “Nuclear War. A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen I had heard some criticism of Annie Jacobsen’s book “Nuclear War” before I even bought it. But also, lots of people were raving about it, so I decided to read it myself. This review contains a few spoilers, but I don’t think the plot is ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
What will it take to end the nuclear nightmare that has gripped the world since the atomic bombings of 1945? For a time, that nightmare seemed to have abated for, in response to massive popular resistance to the prospect of nuclear war, governments turned to signing nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Even previously hawkish government officials proclaimed that “a ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
by 2023 Mombasa Bike Tour participants: Stella Ziegler, Arashdeep Singh, Dennis Opondo, Harrison Kuria Karime, Hemant Rathore, Yusuf Dominic, Victor Chelashow In April 2023, over a dozen IPPNW medical students and junior doctors from 9 countries braved a 500km bike tour from Nairobi to Mombasa, Kenya, leading to IPPNW’s 23rd World Congress. Throughout the 5 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
2M ago
This article was originally published on IPPNW’s bi-annual newsletter Vital Signs Dr. Gislin Dagnelie first became aware of IPPNW when he was still living in his homeland: the Netherlands. His father was a pulmonologist who eventually served on the Dutch IPPNW board of directors and traveled to international conferences, including to Leningrad, where he joined ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
2M ago
by Michael Christ, IPPNW’s Executive Director, originally published on IPPNW’s bi-annual newsletter Vital Signs As diplomats assembled at United Nations Headquarters for the second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2MSP/TPNW), an IPPNW volunteer force of more than 50 doctors, medical students and activists from 14 countries descended ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
3M ago
Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons, it ignores his vital role in rallying the world against nuclear catastrophe. Aghast at the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945 to obliterate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein threw himself ..read more