International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a civil society campaign with the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons through a legally binding nuclear weapons convention. It was launched internationally in Vienna in 2007 at a meeting of parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. National launches have also taken place in Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.
It is supported by more than 200 non-government organizations in 60 countries, including the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Mayors for Peace, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Mouvement de la Paix, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Among its high-profile individual supporters are His Holiness the Dalai Lama, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, Nobel laureate Jody Williams, mayor of Hiroshima Tadatoshi Akiba, former World Court judge Christopher Weeramantry, former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser, former UN under-secretary-general for disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala, and former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans.
