The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a global coalition of non-government organisations with a simple mission: to convince every nation in the world to join and fully implement the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007, the campaign was inspired by the successful movement to outlaw anti-personnel mines a decade earlier on humanitarian grounds. Today, ICAN is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

“We need a determined worldwide movement to outlaw and abolish nukes. To get there in this generation, we need to build the wave of public opinion into a mighty crescendo: a massive, surging, irresistible force which carries us all the way to absolutely zero nukes. Without it, even the most inspirational of leaders will falter on the way.”

– Bill Williams, co-founder of ICAN, 2006

Since its inception, ICAN has focused on building a powerful groundswell of public opposition to nuclear weapons, including by amplifying the voices of nuclear bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people harmed by nuclear testing.

Working alongside the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN secretariat and like-minded governments, ICAN has held awareness-raising events, published pioneering research, organised global days of action and made the case for abolition directly to senior decision-makers.

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Fact: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons currently has 700 partner organisations in 113 nations.

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