18th IPPNW World Congress
More than 600 doctors and medical students from 44 countries brought IPPNW's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and for the prevention of war and small arms violence to India, when they gathered in New Delhi for the 18th World Congress from March 9-11.
IPPNW and Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) met with President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cabinet ministers and parliamentarians to promote the Nuclear Weapons Convention and to appeal for a return to the spirit of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's 1988 Action Plan for a nuclear weapons free world.
Highlights of the Congress included a three-day Student Peace Tour from Amritsar to Delhi; plenary addresses by Vice President Shri M. Hamrid Ansari and Susan George of the Transnational Institute; and a diverse series of workshops on nuclear abolition, small arms violence, globalization, and medical peace education.
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