April Action Alert: How would you spend 1.6 trillion dollars?
Grant a primary education to every child on Earth? Bring clean water and basic sanitation to the entire global population? Reduce maternal mortality rates by three quarters? Adequately treat every person living with HIV/AIDS? End armed conflict? All of the above?
Nuclear Weapon States to meet June 29-30. Time to end the threat from nuclear weapons!
The leaders of the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China (the P5 Permanent members of the UN Security Council) will meet in Paris from 29 to 30 June 2011 to discuss nuclear security. Together they possess more than 20,000 nuclear weapons, capable of destroying all life on earth many times over.