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Toward a Nuclear-Free Future!
Hibakusha Report from Hiroshima to the World(Record of the 2015 World Nuclear Victims Forum:133 pages with photos)
You can read many of the presentations given at the2015 Forum, which was held in Hiroshima November
21-23, 2015; more than 1,000 people attended it,including hibakusha, scientists, legal experts, andcampaigners from around the world. They received
up-to-date reports and participated in discussions
regarding the grave nuclear damage still being donearound the world. On the last day, the Forum adopted
the Declaration of the World Nuclear Victims Forum inHiroshima together with the Draft Elements of a Charterof World Nuclear Victims’ Rights.
We will keep working to improve this site and ask
you to join us in spreading around the world themessages that came from this Forum. We hope thereports and messages uploaded here can be of some help
in building further the momentum generated by thecoming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition ofNuclear Weapons (TPNW).
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The 2015 World Nuclear Victims Forum (WNVF)
HANWA* (Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition)
June 2022* HANWA is a member of Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.

Recommendations:Takashi HIRAOKA (Former Mayor of Hiroshima):“An outstanding record in the history of the anti-nuclearmovement.”

Steven L. LEEPER (Former Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation):“It is amazing! So comprehensive. I have never seen a more complete
presentation of the problems with “nuclear.””From the Contents:
Opening Session
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Haruko MORITAKI (Secretary General, WNVF)
Keynote Proposal
Humankind and Nuclear Technology Cannot Coexist Indefinitely
Tilman RUFF (Co-President , IPPNW / Founding Chair, ICAN)
Keynote Speech
We Can: A Healthy Sustainable Future Can Only Be Nuclear-Free:----Abolition of Nuclear Weapons as Our Most Urgent Task---Alex Rosen: (Assistant Director of IPPNW Germany)
A Solidarity Message(video): No More Hibakusha!
Toshiko NAITO (Hiroshima Hibakusha, Chair of the “No More Hibakusha” Class Action Lawsuit)
Special Report:Toward a World that will Create No More Victims of Nuclear Bombs and Victims of Radiation

Session-1: Various Damage through the Nuclear Process[1] Uranium Mining
1) Petuuche Gilbert (US: Acoma Pueblo, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Uranium Mining Affected Indigenous community)2) Ashish BIRULEE (India: Jadugoda Uranium Mine Anti-Radiation Alliance) and SHRIPRAKASH (India: Film director)
Uranium Mining in Jadugoda, India[2] Nuclear Testing1) Mary DICKSON (U.S.A.: downwinder; playwright): American Hibakusha We Are All Downwinders

2) Kalina LESTER (Australia: Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, ANFA)
Anangu---Nuclear Victims to Cultural Survivors: The Aboriginal People Fighting in Southern Australia
3) Enver Tohti (China: Lop Nur Project):After 48 Detonations: The Human Cost of the Chinese Test Program4) Seiichiro Takemine (Japan: researcher): Closing in on the Invisible Harm by Radiation:
Visiting the Marshall Islands used for the U.S. Nuclear Tests[3] Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
1) Seiji TAKATO (Hiroshima Hibakusha, Plaintiff for the Black Rain Class Action Lawsuit)
Seeking Expansion of the Black Rain Areas
2) Shohei Tsuiki (Hibakusha in Nagasaki, Former Junior High School Teacher): Exposed at 1.8 km and Survived by Luck
3) SIM Jintae (Diretor, Hapchon Chapter of Korean - Hibakusha Association)
Hapcheon, Korea’s Hiroshima: Postwar Trajectories of Korean Hibakusha[4] Nuclear Accidents/Nuclear Labor (Chernobyl, Fukushima)1) Alexander Velikin (Russia: Liquidator at Chernobyl) : The Legal Struggle for Compensation
2) Anton Vdovichenko (Russia: Radymich Representative, Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Victim Support NGO)
: Supporting Activities for the Chernobyl Victims
3) Kenichi HASEGAWA (co-representative, Fukushima Nuclear Accident Victims Network): Our Town Stolen by Nuclear Power[5] Nuclear Waste Use and Depleted Uranium Shells
1) Hideyuki Ban (Director, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center) : Inevitable Nuclear Waster2) Jawad Al-Ali (Cancer Advisor, Iraq Ministry of Health) &Kareem Abdulsada Abd Ahmed (Director, Basra Cancer Prevention Center)
Military Recycling of Radioactive Waste: Continuing Contamination and Damage in Iraq

Sesssion-2: The Science of “Hibaku” (Radiation Exposure)1) Masao TOMONAGA(Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital Director Emeritus): A-Bombs’ Life-Long Health Effects by Immediate DNA Damage
2) Anatolii CHUMAK(Ukraine: Vice Director of the Institute of Clinical Radiology ofNational Research Center for Radiation Medicine)
Health-effects : 29 Years After the Chernobyl Accident3) Shinji TOKONAMI(Professor, Hirosaki University; Tokonami Research Lab,Hirosaki University Radiation Medical Research Institute)Radiological Impact on Evacuees
under the Initial Exposure Situation
Caused by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident4) Masaharu HOSHI(Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima University)

Radiation Dosimetry of Japanese Fishermen on Tuna Ships
around the Marshall Islands in 19545) Eisuke MATSUI(Director, Gifu Environmental Medicine Research Institute)

How to Protect Life and Human Rights from Radiation

Special Session around Hiroaki KOIDE(Former Assistant Professor, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University)[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was modeled on Sadako SASAKI,
who died of atomic-bomb induced leukemia. (Photo: Takeo NAKAOKU)]

All Uses of Nuclear Technology Mean Unjust SacrificeSession-3: Campaignsto Ban Nuclear and DU Weapons
1) Akira Kawasaki (Executive Committee Member, Peace Boat; ICAN Steering Committee)
The Japanese Government Opposes the Ban Treaty: Questioning the “Mediator” Excuse
2) Kenichi Okubo (International Anti-Nuclear Campaign)
Nuclear Powers Are Not Making Efforts toward Abolishing Nuclear Weapons:The Marshal Islands Filed a Suit at the International Court of Justice3) Manfred Mohr (lawyer IALANA-Germany, ICBUW)
Environmental Destruction Through War-The Cases of Nuclear and Uranium Weapons

Session-4: Campaigns against Nuclear Exploitation
1) Ruiko MUTO

(Representative, Complainants for the Criminal Prosecution of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster)

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Never Ends: Never Give Up, Stay Connected, Think for Yourself
2) Kumar Sundaram (India: Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace)3) Shriprakash (India: Documentary Director, “Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda” )Session-5: How to Develop a Nuclear Victims’ Network Hereafter
Closing Session:1) Declaration of the World Nuclear Victims Forum in Hiroshima2) Draft Elements of a Charter of World Nuclear Victims’ Rights

Addenda 2016-21: Recent Movement
1) Haruko MORITAKI (Secretary-General, WNVF)
Enact the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Now! :Examining the Critical Situation after the INF Treaty’ s Collapse
2) Katsuaki AOKI (Co-representative, WNVF): The Hibakusha Lawsuit: History of Unfair Ruling3) Naomi TOYODA (photojournalist): What Will Children 300 Years from Now Think?
“Recovery” — Nine Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster4) Joseph T. Scarry (Social justice activist, U.S.A.)
To Get Back from the Brink of the Nuclear War: From America in the Coronavirus Crisis
5) Nobuo KAZASHI(Co-representative, WNVF)
The Messages from the World Hibakusha Forum: Reading Anew in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
We would like to thank deeply the Nuclear-Free World Foundation for their generous support in translatingsome of the Japanese presentations into English and for providing the website for this briefer English version.
The Japanese version was published in 2020.
For inquiry, please contact us by email: hibakushaforum@gmail.com[Candle Message by the A-Bomb Dome, March 8, 2022]