-------- Mensaje Original -------- Asunto: [ICAN] New ICAN report: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children Fecha: 2024-08-05 12:10 De: "'Tim Wright' via ICAN Campaigners" ican-campaigners@googlegroups.com Destinatario: ICAN Campaigners ican-campaigners@googlegroups.com Responder a: tim@icanw.org
Dear campaigners,
Ahead of this week's anniversaries of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ICAN has today launched a major new report titled _The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children [1]_.
The report shows that:
* In a nuclear attack, children are more likely than adults to die or suffer severe injuries, given their greater vulnerability to the effects of nuclear weapons: heat, blast and radiation. * The fact that children depend on adults for their survival also places them at higher risk of death and hardship in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, with support systems destroyed. * In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, children suffered in unique ways and out of proportion to the rest of the population. * Children living near nuclear test sites globally have also suffered disproportionate harm as a result of radioactive fallout. * Under international humanitarian law, governments have an obligation to protect children in armed conflict. To fulfil this obligation, they must take urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons.
The webpage www.icanw.org/children [2] provides graphic depictions of the specific horrors faced by young people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as children living near nuclear test sites globally.
Thanks to ICAN Australia’s Jesse Boylan, we also have an audio version of the report, which will air on 3CR community radio’s Radioactive Show [3] in Australia.
We encourage you to share the report widely and to remember the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as you commemorate the 79th anniversaries of the attacks.
We have also prepared a video to make it easier to share this resource, which we'll post on ICAN's social media accounts later today.
Kind regards, Tim