The World’s Nuclear Victims Ask: To the G7 Summit Leaders ＜What will the G7 summit do in Hiroshima to avert the nuclear war crisis? What will the G7 Summit do in Hiroshima to rescue nuclear victims? ＞
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2023, 13:30-16:45 Place: World Peace Memorial Cathedral Organizer: Hiroshima Association for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA) Hybrid event, ¥1,000
Purpose of the event:
The leaders of the seven nations that depend on nuclear deterrence as the cornerstone of their security, including the three nuclear weapon states, will gather in Hiroshima, the site of the atomic bombing, to discuss what to do about the atomic bombing. What are they going to discuss?
Isn’t Hiroshima being used as a venue for discussions that will not only strengthen the military alliance with nuclear weapons as the cornerstone of its security policy and promote an early end to the war in Ukraine through further military expansion, but will also lead to increased tensions in the world?
We demand that if the conference is held in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, it should express a strong will for the abolition of nuclear weapons by immediately ending the war in Ukraine, banning the use of depleted uranium (DU) in Ukraine by both sides of Russia, Ukraine and discussing concrete measures to indemnify all nuclear victims in the world and to restore environmental contamination caused by radiation. *To this end, as part of the World Nuclear Victims Forum held in Hiroshima in 2015, we invite nuclear victims from inside and outside the world to discuss the actual situation of nuclear damage, predictions of inhumane tragedies that would be caused by nuclear war, support for nuclear victims and nuclear-affected areas, and prevention of the spread of nuclear damage, and to send out their voices from Hiroshima to the G7 and to the world. The conference will also strengthen the network of nuclear victims around the world.
Part 1 Opening, Introduction of speakers Ms. Haruko Moritaki, Advisor of HANWA （5 min）
Keynote Speech: Dr. Tilman Ruff Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)(Nobel Peace Prize 1885)
Founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN(Nobel Peace Prize 2017)
Associate Professor of School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Title: “What is Nuclear Damage?
Facing the Crisis of Nuclear War, the Ruin of Humanity”
Video Recording (40 min. lecture with simultaneous interpretation)
+ 20 minutes of Q&A online)
Part 2
Appeals from Nuclear Victims
１．Ms. Chieko Kiriaki, Hiroshima Hibakusha
“The Meaning of the Atomic Bombing” (10 min.)
2. Ms. Maki Yanbe, victim of the nuclear power plant accident, former vice-chairman of the Fukushima Prefectural Teachers Union and leader of the Futaba Branch
“Damage caused by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident” (20 min.)
３．Dr. Masao Tomonaga, Professor Emeritus Nagasaki University / Global Citizens Assembly
for Nuclear Phase-Out Nagasaki
“Serious Health Hazards due to A-bomb Exposure” (online, 15 min.)
4. Mr. Ashish Birulee, Alliance Against Radiation from Uranium Mines in Jadugoda, India
Photojournalist
”Jadugoda Uranium Mine, India: The Present Situation of Damage”
Video message 10 minutes (with Japanese caption)
5. Mr. Isaiah Mombilo, Representative of NGO for Civil Society in Congo, South Africa
“Nuclear Damage at Sinkolobwe Mine, Congo”
Video message 10 min. (with Japanese caption)
6. Ms. Evelyn Ralpho, Second-generation Victim of the Marshall Nuclear Tests
“The Continuing Damage Caused by Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands”
Video message 10min. (with Japanese caption)
7. Janan Hassan, Obstetrician and Pediatrician, Basra, Iraq
“The reality of the depleted uranium in Iraq” (Message)
Mr. Maki Satou, International Coordinator/ Representative of SAKABEKO
“Report of Iraq resent visit”
8.Mr. Akira Kawasaki, ICAN International Steering Committee Member (Video message 10min. (with Japanese caption)) Peace Boat)
”From the World of the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Movement” (10min.)
