April 29, 2010 – Peace Boat at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
On the eve of the NPT Review Conference that will take place May 3-28 at the United Nations in New York, thousands of NGO representatives and engaged citizens from around the world will come together to participate in a series of actions and events calling for nuclear weapons abolition. After the failure of the 2005 Review Conference, expectations from citizens around the world are high, calling for the Conference to take serious steps towards the abolition of nuclear weapons and make the most of the current global momentum enhanced by President Obama's calls for a world without nuclear weapons.

A delegation from Peace Boat is in New York to hold a series of activities around the NPT Review Conference. This will include several workshops on Northeast Asian issues, including disarmament, military spending and nuclear weapon free zones. Furthermore, Peace Boat is also bringing a delegation of atomic bomb survivors to New York as part of its Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World – Peace Boat Hibakusha Project. The group set sail from Yokohama, Japan on April 16 on the third such voyage, where they will be visiting 22 ports in 20 countries to give testimonies of their experiences of the atomic bomb and spread their messages from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
to the world.
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