Amplify Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition takes place in New York

Sixteen young people from 13 countries gathered in New York from June 16 through 21 for the 2017 Amplify Youth Summit. Amplify is a global network of young people working for nuclear abolition, which started as a result of the 2015 International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition in Hiroshima. The recent Summit took place in New York to coincide with the UN conference to negotiate a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. SGI was among the co-sponsors that made this Summit possible.

During the first half of the Summit, youth participants engaged in various activities such as participating in the Women’s March to Ban the Bomb, meeting the Hibakusha, and holding strategic discussions on the future of the youth network. The last three days provided opportunities for youth to actively participate in the negotiations through observing the intergovernmental discussions, delivering an oral statement, and advocating for the inclusion of disarmament education in the Treaty. Youth also held briefing meetings with the President of the Conference Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gómez, UN Under-Secretary-General of Disarmament Affairs, delegations of Austria and Ireland, and ICAN.

The outcome report of the Amplify Youth Summit will be available at a later date on the Amplify website.