Take 11: Doctors for abolishing nuclear weapons

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was founded in 2005 and became the main civil society partner around the world

A group of Melbourne doctors launched a campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and won the first Nobel Peace Prize for Australia last year.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was founded in 2005 and became the main civil society partner around the world focusing on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons.

The group worked towards a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.

“And such a treaty … was adopted by a vote of 122 to one at the United Nations in July 2017,” said Associate Professor Tilman Ruff, a public health and infectious disease physician at the University of Melbourne and founder of ICAN.

“It’s already got 53 signatories and it is changing the game in disarmament.”

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