The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations in over 110 countries mobilising people and civil society organisations all over the world to speak out against nuclear weapons and persuade governments to join and implement the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
“It is a great honour to be able to donate this sculpture to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. The Red Cross was one of the first international organisations to reach Hiroshima after the atomic bombing. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has always been clear that the inhumane impact of nuclear weapons means they should never be used again and, along with ICAN, supports their total elimination. Shinichi’s tricycle is a reminder of those terrible events and serves to motivate us to make sure we never let such a thing happen again.”
- Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN
The TPNW – adopted at the United Nations in 2017 with the overwhelming support of the international community and in force since 2021– is the first globally applicable treaty that categorically prohibits the most destructive, inhumane instruments of war ever created. It is also the first to put in place a framework for verifiably and irreversibly eliminating nuclear weapons, and for assisting the victims of their use and testing. In 2017, ICAN awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons” and our “ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.”
ICAN’s commission and donation of the sculpture was realised thanks to the generous backing of visionary philanthropists and foundations dedicated to supporting ICAN and broader humanitarian disarmament efforts.
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