Monday, January 29, 2018

BUDDHIST LEADER IKEDA URGES HUMAN RIGHTS FOCUS AS KEY TO RESOLUTION OF GLOBAL ISSUES AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION

TOKYO, Jan 26 (Bernama-AsiaNet) -- On January 26, 2018, Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), issued his annual peace proposal, titled "Toward an Era of Human Rights: Building a People's Movement."

Ikeda welcomes the July 2017 adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as a turning point in the global history of efforts to achieve peace and disarmament, emphatic that while nuclear weapons exist, a world of peace and human rights will remain elusive. He outlines strategies for gaining support for the Treaty from the nuclear-weapon states and nuclear-dependent states.
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31030

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