Basel Declaration on Trans-Generational Crimes of Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Energy
Participants of the Basel Conference on Human Rights, Future Generations, and Crimes in the Nuclear Age. Credit: IPPNW.org
The participants in the international conference Human Rights, Future Generations and Crimes in the Nuclear Age, held in Basel from September 14-17, 2017, affirm that the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons, depleted uranium weapons and nuclear energy, which are both transnational and trans-generational, constitute a violation of human rights, a transgression of international humanitarian and environmental law, and a crime against future generations.