On March 28, the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money online platform will be launched at the United Nations in New York.
Move the Nuclear Weapons Money is a resource for parliamentarians, governments and civil society to cut nuclear weapons budgets, end investments in the nuclear weapons industry, and re-allocate these funds and investments into areas of economic, social and environmental benefit.
The online platform includes:
- examples of legislative action to cut nuclear weapons budgets;
- information about corporations manufacturing nuclear weapons and their delivery systems;
- examples of nuclear weapons divestment at national, city, organisaiton and individual levels,
- opportunity costs of nuclear weapons spending (what this money could instead be allocated towards or invested in);
- a handbook for civil society and legislators;
- an exciting action Count the Nuclear Weapons Money to be held in New York during the UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament;
- information about the connections between nuclear disarmament and sustainable development;
- news about the Move the Nuclear Weapons Campaign;
The online resource is part ot the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign, which was launched at the 135th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in October 2016 at a special event on Military spending and the Sustainable Development Goals. The event also included the release of Move the Nuclear Weapons Money: A handbook for civil society and legislators’.
Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign is a joint initiative of PNND, Basel Peace Office, Global Security Institute, International Peace Bureau, IPPNW Switzerland, World Future Council, UNFOLD ZERO and the Abolition 2000 working group on Economic Dimensions of Nuclearism.
Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign also co-operates closely with the Global Campaign on Military Spending.
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