The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC), in partnership with the Peace and Art Society (PAS), and the Library of the University of Algarve, once again have an exhibition of plastic arts, “For peace, against nuclear weapons ", at the hall of the Rectory of UAlg, during the month of March.
This exhibition began its tour of the Algarve in February last year, in Aljezur, which was interrupted by circumstances caused by Covid-19 until November, when the exhibition was held in Vila Real de Santo António.
Due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, there will be no place for the inauguration, but, «still, the exhibition is available to be visited throughout the month of March», stresses the CPPC.
“75 years after the holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, with hundreds of thousands of deaths and effects that still persist today, nuclear weapons continue to be developed and today only 1% of existing nuclear warheads would arrive to destroy human civilization. Global nuclear disarmament is a central issue in the defense of peace, for the survival of the human species and the maintenance of life on Earth as we know it today», emphasizes the organization.
The issue of nuclear weapons is "on the table" and the CPPC "has developed several actions to promote the campaign for the Treaty of Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons".
The Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty was launched in July 2017 by the 122 States participating in the United Nations conference, held “with the aim of negotiating a legally binding instrument for the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination. With the ratification of Honduras, on the 24th of October, the necessary mark for the entry into force of the Treaty was reached».
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation "welcomes the ratification by 50 states of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons", which allowed it to enter into force in January of this year.
This fact, stresses the Council, “constitutes a significant victory for those who, throughout the world and also in Portugal, have been fighting for decades for the prohibition of this type of weaponry. At the same time, the pressure on the other States increases so that, with their full adherence to the treaty, they contribute to a world free of nuclear weapons».
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