Call to endorse
September 26 has been declared by the UN General Assembly as the International Day for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Abolition Day).
Every year on this date, the UN holds a high-level meeting of world leaders to discuss “urgent and effective measures” to achieve global nuclear disarmament. At the same time, civil society organizations organize events and undertake actions to support nuclear weapons abolition.
In 2025, for the first time, civil society organizations from around the world joined together to establish a common platform and joint actions for Nuclear Abolition Day. These included a social media action Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands and a Joint Appeal that was endorsed by over 600 organizations and more than 1200 additional individuals from 99 countries, and presented to the high-level UN plenary on September 26.
This civil society cooperation was so successful that the Nuclear Abolition Day core team has decided to repeat the actions in 2026. The Joint Appeal has been re-opened for endorsement, with the plan to present it to the NPT Review Conference in April and again to the UN High-Level Meeting in September.
UNFOLD ZERO encourages you to endorse the appeal, if you have not already done so, and to circulate this notice to your colleagues inviting them to also endorse.