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"The silent emergency of simple needs ..." message from the international president, Regina Birchem.

Publication: International Peace Update
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
For many around the world daily pressing concerns are for food, shelter, affordable clean water, freedom from threats of violence. Not much thought is given each day to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear attack.

"Millions of children are being born into a silent emergency of simple needs" where the lack of "access to basic services is killing around 4,000 children each day." (Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director). The stockpiling of weapons does nothing to provide for simple human needs.

Our traditional WILPF view is that there is a connection between the seemingly futile negotiations to limit proliferation of nuclear weapons, not to mention the ultimate goal...

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