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    European Youth Network for Nuclear Disarmament

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At the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the UNO in 2005 in New York, for the first time youth have been able to raise their voice. Still, the conference failed. Therefore, some youth from Europe decided to found a European Youth Network for Nuclear Disarmament to tackle the threat of nuclear war by youths from all over Europe. So in October 2005 in Milano, Italy BANg was born!
The network intends to offer youth a space to develop and implement their own strategy to achieve peace and nuclear disarmament in Europe and in the world. It is also a marketplace of ideas to exchange successfull experiences, tricks and information.By now, BANg has over 100 members from various organisations in a dozen countries.

Latest News on Nukes

65 years Hiroshima and Nagasaki 15.08.2010
65 years ago the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima on 6th August and on Nagasaki on 9th August. 96.000 people died immediately. 130.000 died until the end of 1945. Today still 340.000 Hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombing, are suffering. Many Hibakusha are still fighting for be officially recognized by the government and getting their medical treatment paid. Their biggest wish is that all nuclear weapons are abolished so that nobody else must experience again the hell they went through.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Kicking the door open! 08.06.2010
A report on activites at the conference and of NGO actions in the last conference week and how the final document feels like.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Towards Nuclear Abolition 07.06.2010
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has produced a report, NPT Review Conference 2010: Towards Nuclear Abolition, which documents the growing support among governments for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. You can download the report here: http://www.icanw.org/files/ RevCon2010.pdf
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Contact: Tim Wright



BANg Highlights at the End of the first week 09.05.2005
BANg led end the first exiting week of the NPT conference in New York City with a great finish. Barbara Streibl and Fatih Oezcan hold a powerful youth speech during the NGO presentations on Friday afternoon. Afterwards all youth gathered on Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in the opposite of the UN for a Global Zero Now Festival with our giant earth-globe-sun-flower.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



The next generation: free of the Cold War mentality 11.05.2010
Monday morning began with an opportunity for the next generation of peace activists and NGO leaders to showcase their vision of a nuclear weapon free world, during the annual international youth meeting. US President Barack Obama has suggested on several occasions that nuclear weapons may not be eliminated in his lifetime. However, the majority of the participants on Monday morning were born and raised in a post-Cold War world.
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Contact: Aaron Hayman



Youth Speech delivered! 07.05.2010
to the plenary of the NPT RevCon 2010 by Fatih Oezcan and Barbara Streibl.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Can this NPT conference fail? 06.05.2010
A perspective by UN-General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, Iranian president Ahmadinejad , US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and young activist Barbara Streibl from Germany What is connecting this four people here in New York? They are all speaking in front of the plenary of the Non-Proliferation Conference taking place at the UN in May.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Report: Public Youth Debate - Legislative Council Chambers 05.05.2010
Harnessing the energy around the Nuclear Security Summit and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, a youth campaign of The Peace Foundation was born – Ban All Nukes Generation (BANG) Aotearoa. A local arm of an international umbrella, BANG Aotearoa felt it important to address the question of New Zealand’s role in international nuclear disarmament.
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Contact: Alyn Ware



Meeting of the abolition family: Extended Version 03.05.2010
Why do you fly half around the world? I mean despite for making the world a better place and fight against nuclear weapons. I mean the real reason why you are answering all the nice questions of the homeland security officer. It is to meet up with people you are meeting once a year on another continent, the once you are writing hundreds of emails before you ever meet them in person, the once who are your friends on Facebook for ages – all the beautiful people you feel connected to through a common goal.
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Winner of postcard competition! 12.02.2010
Over the last weeks BANg ran a international postcard competition for the "Global Zero Now" Campaign. Now the winner was voted! See result at: http://globalzeronow.bang-europe.org/competition.html
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Contact: Nina Eisenhardt



Grassroots Journalism Project 03.02.2010
The Ban All Nukes Generation Youth Network (Bang-USA.org)wants youth and concerned citizens who are interested in creatively spreading the word for nuclear weapons disarmament and social justice.
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Contact: Kim-Thao Nguyen



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