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Role of scientists and engineers for social responsibility in developing countries - 2nd national conference
17. January 2010, Nagpur/India
Successful conference organised by INES, the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection, the Indian Campaign to Ban Landmines & Cluster Munitions and IPPNW.
82 participants from all the parts of India attended the conference. Participants included various high ranking scientists, engineers, researchers, policy makers, intellectuals, legal experts, scientists, social workers and young scientists.
Keynote speakers were:
• Admiral Ramdas (Retd.), former Chief of the Indian Navy
• Mr. M.D Date: Chairman, Institution of Engineers of India
• Mr G.S.Saini, Director, National Civil Defence College, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
• Dr. Tapan Chakarabarty, Director, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India
• Dr. Ramesh Thakre, Vice-Chairman Bharat Krishak Samaj, Former World Bank/ADBEx. World Bank/ADB/USAID-Project advisor in Africa
• Dr. S. M.Taley, Professor of Agriculture Engineering and Director of the Agro-ecology and Environmental Center, A.D.Agriculture University
at the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress
38 rue Saint Sabin, F 75011 Paris-France.
The invitation to all INES members has been sent out.
For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World
International Conference
30. April – 1. May, 2010 Riverside Church, New York City/USA
The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
Nuclear disarmament should serve as the leading edge of a global trend toward demilitarization and redirection of resources to meet human needs and restore the environment.
8th review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
3.-28. May 2010
Activities update on the preparations of the NPT 2010. Call for action (by 20.11.2009).
The international preparatory meeting in Washington on November 16th 2009 was very productive and pointed us in the right direction towards the NPT Conference in New York. We made big steps forward in the organization of the events and actions.
Many national coordination groups are constituting themselves, promoting the international Disarm Now! call mobilizing their society, and putting pressure on their governments to actively work on the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
One of the ideas is to present the list of endorsers of the Disarm Now! Call to the media at different press conferences in different countries on February 15th 2010. One highlight of our actions at the NPT Conference will be the handover of the list of endorsers to representatives of the United Nations.
The Disarm Now! call is one of the most important pieces for our international protest and feedback has been positive so far; up to now it received support of over 130 endorsers from more than 20 countries. We would like to thank all organizations who have already signed the call.
These numbers are quite good but not demonstrative enough: we want to spread the call more and gain more endorsers. Therefore we ask all of you who have not signed already to endorse the call.
And we ask all of you to promote the call to organizations within and beyond your network. Continue to spread it via your email-lists and approach different groups you haven't worked with.
The NPT conference offers the chance to extend relations to other movements and groups of our society. It opens possibilities to broaden the peace movement and extend its scope.
Let us make a strong statement against nuclear weapons and for a world without them. We can do so by presenting to the UN the Disarm Now! call with a minimum of one thousand endorsers from all over the world.
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Lucas Wirl, IALANA
Schützenstr. 6a
10117 Berlin www.ialana.de
Workshop on "Preparing students in science and engineering for social responsibility"
13.-15. October 2010 Delft University of Technology / Delft, Netherlands
The 16th Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP16) is expected to be held in Cancún/Mexico from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
