This event will focus on providing a concise overview about the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty will enter into force soon and this seminar will explore how activists from all ages can join the movement to banning nuclear weapons and changing the discourse on nuclear weapons. Please join us to learn how the future is you in being a peaceful picture of hope for humanity.

Conference Chair: Rinor Jani, UN Representative, Pathways To Peace, UN Peace Messenger Organization

Introductory Remarks by Ambassador. Maritzia Chan, Deputy Permanent Representative, The Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN

Speakers include:

Moderated by Betsabe Reyna, UN Representative, Pathways To Peace, UN Peace Messenger Organization

Frances Collins, Deputy Director, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland

Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Policy and Research Coordinator, The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), (Nobel Peace Prize 2017)

Anna Ikeda, Program Associate, Office of UN Affairs, Soka Gakkai International

Susi Snyder, Nuclear Disarmament Programme Manager, PAX

Kelvin Kibet, International Medical Student Representative, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, (Nobel Peace Prize 1985)

Professor Esther Yazzie-Lewis, Co-Author of The Navajo People and Uranium Mining, University of New Mexico

Strong Buffalo, Executive Director and Indigenous Director, Oyate Hotanin (Voice of The People) and World Uranium Hearing

Tezikiah Gabriel, Executive Director, Pathways To Peace, UN Peace Messenger Organization

Ronald Tatenda Magomo, Representative of the African Union Youth Front and the Southern Africa Youth Forum

Christian N. Ciobanu, NY & Youth Representative, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF)