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ICAN-UK CAMPAIGN ACTIONS
 
1. Write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM 1987 on a Nuclear Weapons Convention:

ICAN-UK needs your help to get more MPs to support a global ban on nuclear weapons.
 
Since November 2007, over 180 MPs have signed Early Day Motions supporting a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).
 
The majority of these are either Labour or Liberal Democrat MPs.
 
So far, only three Conservative MPs are pro-NWC and none voted against replacing Trident in 2007. However, since the economic crisis, a new cross-party debate has begun over whether Trident is affordable and desirable.
 
ICAN-UK is calling on the Government to show real leadership by scrapping Trident and entering multilateral negotiations towards the verifiable global abolition of nuclear weapons. We therefore need people to write to their MPs and lobby them to support a NWC by signing EDM 1987.
 
Please let us know if you receive a reply from your MP or about any other progress you make.
 
Click here to use CND's online lobbying tool to find out who your MP is and to email them.
 
2. A Little More Action!

This month, a group of like-minded countries, committed to the speedy achievement of a world free of nuclear weapons, put forward a call for action to the United Nations.
 
After decades of deadlock there is now an opportunity for the world's leaders to take action to abolish nuclear weapons globally.
 
However, the attempt to kick-start global disarmament is being blocked by a small group of countries, including the UK, who are addicted to nuclear weapons.
 
The time has come to demand that our leaders stop making excuses. They must live up to their legal obligation to abolish all nuclear weapons. We no longer want to live with the threat of nuclear devastation. We want a world free of nuclear weapons now!
 
Take Action Today!
 

1. Watch the action video!
 
2. Click and your call for a nuclear ban will be delivered directly to Foreign Minister William Hague via twitter.
 
3. Write to William Hague demanding that the UK supports a global ban on nuclear weapons now!
 
Email: William Hague haguew@parliament.uk or write to him at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

3. Cut Trident- Not Public Services
Write to Lib Dem Defence Minister Nick Harvey
 
Click here to find out more about CND's new campaign where you can:
 
1. Write to Nick Harvey- asking him to include non-replacement of Trident and nuclear disarmament in his Alternatives Review.

 
2. Ask your MP to sign EDM 1924 Trident Review.
 
 
4. Sign an affirmation
 
Affirm your belief that any use of nuclear weapons would be a crime under international law.
 
Visit the World Court Project's website to register your name.
 
The World Court Project's work is based on the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons.
 
This builds on treaty obligations, the severe restrictions international law places on nuclear weapons and their incompatibility with universal moral norms. 
 
 
5. Bombs No More
 
Bombs No More is an exciting new ICAN project that provides people with the opportunity to transform a nuclear bomb into something peaceful.
 
 
ICAN’s goal is to collect thousands of postcards of "disarmed bombs" from across the world to show government leaders that there’s strong public support for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Entries will be judged by Nobel Peace Prize winners and displayed at the United Nations.
 
 
Bombs No More supplements the Learn Peace education program and is an exciting opportunity for everyone to get involved in the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.
 
 
You can order these blank postcards by emailing: info@icanw.org.
 
Once your postcards have been transformed, post them back to us and we will publish them online. You can view submissions at: bombsnomore.com
 
 
 

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