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Introduction, promise and request of the Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign


Who are we?

The Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign is an International workinggroup, in which International Lawyers and Activist work together to support the NWAD campaign.

Basic information on the NWAD campaign can be found at the bottom of this document.


Promise by the Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign:

The Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign promises to spread legal information which can be used by the lawyers in the defence of Anti-Nuclear and Environmental Activists when they are arrested during Non-Violent Direct Actions to uphold International Law for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and brought to court after the arrest.

The Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign also promises to publicise the Advisory Opinion of the UN International Court of Justice on the illegality of Nuclear Weapons
in all the way they are able to:

The complete text ca 2.5 MegaByte can be found on this website of GANA under the Documents-index. And...

Also if you want, you can send me a request by E-mail to send you the text on 3.5 " floppies:

The cost I charge are the cost I have made for the floppies and handling.
And if you are willing, you can add some donation to keep up the good work.

What more do we have to offer?

Request of the Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign:

Please send us detailed information about your planned or carried out Non-Violent Direct Actions to uphold International Law for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons AND detailed reports with LEGAL quotes used in Court in their defence, so we all can benefit from this information.

NOTE!

It is off great importance to us all to get the LEGAL quotes used in defence of the Activists in Court, so they can be used another time in another Court in the defence of other Activist.

I am a member of the Legal workinggroup of the NWAD campaign
You can reach me at:

GANA's office:

Address: c/o
Ak Malten
Irisstraat 134
2565TP The Hague
The Netherlands

E-Mail: Ak Malten <akmalten@wish.nl>

Tel:+31.70.3608905
Fax:+31.70.3608905

GANA's website: http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, including ALL the Separate Opinions of ALL the Judges, the Canberra Report and the CTBT Text and Protocol can be found at:

http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten/docs.html

The Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance (GANA) -- is a member of The Abolition 2000 Network, A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

What is NWAD?

Nuclear Weapons Abolition Days (NWAD) is an international campaign of civil (dis)obedience to uphold international law for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
International activists from different environmental/peace movements are organizing non-violent direct actions to publicise the Advisory Opinion of the UN International Court of Justice and to uphold international law on the following dates and places :

July 8th - NATO Summit Madrid
August 6th - NATO HQ Brussels
August 9th at 'sites of crime'

International contact address for NWAD is:

A-days (Non-Violent Direct Action Network),
For Mother Earth,
Gent Ecologisch Centrum,
Maria Hendrikaplein 5,
9000 Gent,
Belgium,
phone/fax: +32-9-242.87.51,
e-mail: international@motherearth.org,
URL: http://www.motherearth.org

NOTE! You can receive up-to-date info on NWAD 1997 by sending message to:
<Majordomo@xs4all.nl> with in body of message:

subscribe motherearth-a-days@xs4all.nl <your e-mail address>
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This way you'll join the inter-active electronic mailer which was set-up for this campaign.

If you want to send messages to the list, then the address to send these messages to, is:

<a-days@motherearth.org>

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