Together We Envision “Education in Emergencies and Peace” Mosaic art created by more than 1,000 messages and artworks The Japan NGO Network for Education (JNNE) has been conducting the “SDG4 Education Campaign 2023” since February 2023, with the aim of raising public awareness of the current situation in various parts of the world where education […]
Civil7 Press Conference Schedule: 16:00 –17:00, 19th May, 2023 Venue: 2nd room, NGO Center (Hiroshima City Youth Center) Organizer: Civil7 Speakers: Moderator – Mariko Kinai (Civil7 Steering Committee / World Vision Japan) Speaker – Shoko Uchida (Coordinator of the Civil7 Economic Justice and Transformation Working Group, PARC) Speaker – Masaki Inaba (Coordinator of the Civil7 […]
Urgent Call for G7 Leaders – One in Every 23 People in the World Needs Humanitarian Assistance Schedule: 15:00 –16:00, 19th May, 2023 Venue: 2nd room, NGO Center（Hiroshima Seishonen Center） Organizer: C7 Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict Working Group Content: Under the unprecedented polycrisis, one in every 23 people in the world are in need of […]
Press Conference by Hiroshima’s Historiographers Overview: Confining Hiroshima’s history to the object of an atomic bomb obscures the subject, the soul of the place, and puts all the focus on the verb, the bombing, rendering a definition of Peace as the absence of a verb – a bombing – or, at best, the absence of […]
Film Screening: Leaving fear behind Date & Time: 19 May 2023, 10:00-11:00 20 May 2023, 19:00-20:00 21 May 2023, 12:00-13:00 Venue: Hiroshima City Youth Center (2nd floor), Recreation Room Dhondup Wangchen. In 2007, before the Beijing Olympics, he filmed a video asking over 100 Tibetans, “What do you think about the Olympics?” He was detained […]
NGO Press Briefing on Climate Change and Energy – Voices from Global South This year’s Environment Ministerial meeting again committed to decarbonize the energy sector by 2035 and touched on the necessity of phasing out all fossil fuels. However, it did not agree on deadline for coal phase out and leave the loophole for new […]
Press release at the beginning of G7 Summit: G7 Summit’s area of focus: How to prepare for the ‘next pandemic’ – directions for global governance As the topics of global governance of pandemic preparedness and health systems strengthening will be focused during the G7 Hiroshima Summit, we will be sharing civil society perspectives on the […]
MEDIA ADVISORY (Revised on May 17, 2023) Contact: Ayumi Fukakusa, Friends of the Earth Japan, [email protected], +81-80-6917-0794 (WA) +81 50 7103 6949 (phone) Hiroki Osada, Friends of the Earth Japan, [email protected], +81 50 7103 694 Tomomi Shibata, Oil Change International, [email protected], +81 90 63354822 #JapanLovesDirtyEnergy: Activists Across the World Organize Action Featuring Giant Prime Minister […]
The G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting was held at Dejima Messe in Nagasaki City for two days from May 13 to 14, and the following two documents were released as outcome documents. The G7 Nagasaki Health Ministers’ Communique (Japanese and English) G7 Global Plan on UHC Agenda (Japanese and English) In addition, the G7 Finance and […]
G7 Hiroshima Summit Engagement Groups Joint Press Conference On the occasion of the G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Meeting, a joint press conference will be held by the G7 Engagement Groups to deepen understanding of the significance of the official G7 Engagement Groups and policy recommendations from their perspectives. *This joint press conference will be held as […]