CADU - Launch of International Petition Campaign

Launch of International Petition Campaign

ICBUW has launched an international petition to ban uranium weapons. It can be signed online at www.bandepleteduranium.org or paper copies are available from CADU (maybe having a stall and collecting signatures would be a good event for the Day of Action?). Please sign it yourself right away and urge your friends to do so, too.

This petition campaign will continue until the realisation of a treaty to ban uranium weapons, but we have set our first deadline on February 15, 2005, so that we can appeal to the EU Parliament or to the UN Disarmament Committee to be held in Geneva next spring.

The petition states:

We, the people, need to let governments and the United Nations know that these weapons can have no part in a humane and caring world. Every signature counts!

We call for your support to demand:

1. An immediate end to the use of uranium weapons.
2. Disclosure of all locations where uranium weapons have been used and immediate removal of the remnants and contaminated materials from the sites under strict control.
3. Health surveys of the 'depleted' uranium victims and environmental investigations at the affected sites.
4. Medical treatment and compensation for the 'depleted' uranium victims.
5. An end to the development, production, stockpiling, testing, trade of uranium weapons.
6. A Convention for a Total Ban on Uranium Weapons.

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