CO-PRESIDENTS REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: SERGEY KOLESNIKOV, IPPNW CO-PRESIDENT

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1 CO-PRESIDENTS REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: SERGEY KOLESNIKOV, IPPNW CO-PRESIDENT September August 2012 This period of my responsibilities was divided on two different parts: Parliamentary period (2010-December 2011) and period after my retiring from the political activity (now I am the Adviser to Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Presidium). But at the same time I still have access to the both Chambers of Russian Parliament as the member of several Consulting Councils and close friend to some key political figures. In my report I shall give brief information about my activity, trying to avoid details. Parliament and governmental level activity Main task was active lobbying work in the Russian Parliament- to make visible and understandable IPPNW ideas and programs and to organize decision makers lobbying by Peace activists- Pugwash, PNND, MPI etc. It was not easy, because Russian legislation during last years changed significantly in the sector of NGO regulations. And IPPNW-Russia changed its Constitution not to be blamed as the foreign agent NGO. I organized several meetings with Parliamentarians of CIS and Baltic countries, Italy, Spain, Mongolia, China, Bulgaria, Finland to discuss professional issues and informing colleagues about IPPNW activity. I used all my abilities to initiate and supported discussions in favor of nuclear disarmament in the RF Duma and state bodies of executive power. Now I am trying to organize IPPNW group in Russian Parliament, because several physicians have been elected last Due to our activity along with a very limited number of other public organizations (and frankly saying, most of them are close to Government), IPPNW-Russia was invited to become part of Public Advisory Board under the auspices of by the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). I participated in a number of round-table discussion with the top-level officials in arms control and disarmament issues of the RF MoFA, discussing various aspects of the Russian and International nuclear policies, nuclear disarmament and NPT issues. Some proposals of IPPNW-Russia have been used by MoFA in negotiations on nuclear issues. I had some meetings with Atomic Agency of Russia officials to discuss nuclear safety and problems of nuclear wastes and fissile materials in peace nuclear energy cycle and possible changing of official Russian policy for Nuclear Energy after Fukushima accident. As Co-President of IPPNW I used my abilities for further development and expansion of IPPNW-CIS network. It included not only meetings with physicians from many countries, but also visits to Ukraine, Armenia, Bulgaria, and Finland. Important, that Georgian national affiliate of IPPNW got re-activated and launched joint projects with the Russian and Ukrainian affiliates. During International Medical Congress in Erevan (Armenia) I presented new data about pollution and contamination influence on youngsters health and reproduction. After that I SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS SERGEY KOLESNIKOV Page 1 of 5

2 met with Prime Minister of Armenia Sarkisyan to discuss problems of Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (existing plans to construct new reactor), formation of IPPNW affiliate etc. Letter to support of IPPNW affiliate formation was sent to President of Republic Abkhasia, and observer from this country will participate in Hiroshima Congress. I was not very active in this period in my international trips because of many other obligations and because I want to leave some space of activity for new generation in IPPNW-Russia, including students. Dialogue with the Decision-makers I, as Co-President of IPPNW and IPPNW-Russia was traditionally invited by the Department of Security and Disarmament of the MoFA to take part in a round-table meeting of representatives of academic institutions and NGOs dealing with nuclear disarmament issues with the high-level officials of the Department of Security and Disarmament. The roundtable meetings traditionally were chaired by high level officials -Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov and the Director of the Department (Anatoly Antonov and new director Mikhail Ulyanov). We raised a number of key issues of IPPNW agenda, including prospects of nuclear disarmament, prospects of a comprehensive abolition of nuclear weapons, inhuman conventional weapons (landmines and cluster munitions). One of the major messages of the feedback from Mikhail Ulyanov was that further nuclear disarmament initiatives on the Russian side can get stuck if they do not go in line and interrelated with the progress in other fields, primarily with the missile defense. About ICAN progress worldwide and the key necessity of further concrete steps in nuclear armaments reduction officials were rather skeptical, because of the major obstacles on the way of further disarmament negotiations- Missile Defense development. Undertaken by the NATO countries steps in this field can break the strategic balance of powers and can negatively impact not only regional but also the global stability. So, the deployment of missile defense next to Russian borders is perceived as a threat to react. Among the response measures could be the entry-into service of an early-warning missile detection radar system in Kaliningrad, further strengthening of Russia s strategic forces bases and installations, modernization of the Russian strategic ballistic missiles to effective penetrate missile defense penetration systems, and even deploying in Russia s Western and Southern regions Iskander missiles capable of destroying the European segment of Missile Defense. Responding to my statement on the unacceptability of such approach in view of nuclear powers obligations under NPT and due to ICAN world civil society initiative, the RF MoFA reps stressed that the confrontation with the USA/NATO and Russia s West European partners and Russia s engagement in new spiral of arms race is totally against Russia s interests and Russia will do its best seeking for a compromise. International activities and trips I missed Berlin Congress "Chernobyl: 25 Years after - Stop the Nuclear Timebomb Abandon Nuclear Power Now!" because of Moscow Conference on Chernobyl Anniversary. But it was our presentation Incidents at nuclear sites and installations as a consequence of «human factor»: Lessons of the Past and New Risks in which the current situation and risks in the Russia nuclear complex were analyzed. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS SERGEY KOLESNIKOV Page 2 of 5

3 At the same time I was very active in contacts with PNND, Pugwash, MPI, other International NGO to prepare and release letters to Presidents of Nuclear Countries and organizing meetings of representatives of these NGO s with decision makers. Medical Society Outreach and Medical Student Development On April 2011, the 25 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster: Medical and Social Aspects international IPPNW conference organized by the IPPNW Russian national affiliate, the I.M.Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, the Russian Public Association Men s Health with the participation of the Federation of Peace and Reconciliation and the Russian Pugwash Committee. Most prominent experts in radiology, medical care and social protection, representatives of state agencies, activists of non-governmental organization from various regions of Russia as well as from CIS countries including Ukraine, Byelarus, and Kazakhstan took an active part in the conference. Together with chairing this Conference, I presented my vision on history and future of peacekeeping NGO s in CIS countries and their role in antinuclear lobbying. There were number of interesting presentations by very prominent scientists and different NGO s leaders from 5 countries. After the closure of the conference IPPNW-Russia activists from various regional sections including Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Kaluga, Tambov, Orenburg, Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk elected Sergei Kolesnikov, Vladimir Garkavenko and Ramais Kamalov as IPPNW-Russia Co-Chairs. IPPNW national affiliates from Ukraine, Byelarus and Kazakhstan reported about major activities and accomplishments. It was also decided to establish a CIS inter-regional public movement For Social Safety and recommend Vladimir Garkavenko as a possible candidate for Co-President of IPPNW. On May 12, 2012, in Odessa (Ukraine), Russian and Ukrainian IPPNW national affiliates coorganized and held an international IPPNW student and young physicians conference entitled From Chernobyl to Fukushima. The conference took place in the Odessa Polytechnical University. More than 400 medical students and young doctors took part in the conference, representing a large variety of regions of Ukraine, Russia, a number of other CIS countries including South Caucasian and Central Asian regions. Also, the conference was attended by medical students from Central and Western European countries studying in the Odessa Medical University, as well as by students of the Odessa Polytechnical University. The conference proved to be the largest in scale IPPNW youth event in the CIS region for the last two decades and the first in Ukraine. Beside the medical students and young doctors from Odessa region there were participants coming from Kiev, Donetsk, Kharkov, Zaparozhye, Kremenchug, Crimea, and other major Ukrainian cities and regions. The conference received welcome addresses from the Verkhovnaya Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, Odessa city and regional administrations, as well as from the Archbishop of Odessa and Izmail (one of the highest clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine). Addresses were made by Julia Kovalevskaya, Peoples Deputy (MP) of Ukraine, Dmitry Voloshin, Vice-Governor of the Odessa Region, Archbishop Serafim, Rector of the Odessa Ecclesiastical Seminary, among other. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS SERGEY KOLESNIKOV Page 3 of 5

4 I was among key speakers on this event. The presentations covered a large spectrum of issues related to the medical impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, challenges in nuclear disarmament, role and strategies of civil society in facilitating nuclear disarmament and nuclear safety in Ukraine, CIS and worldwide, IPPNW and its student movement activities and programs including ICAN, energy potential alternative to nuclear energy and hydrocarbons. Apart of the conference, the organizers leadership of Ukrainian and Russian IPPNW affiliates held meetings at the Odessa regional and city administrations with the Governor of the Odessa region and Mayor of the City of Odessa, took part in a popular live TV talk show on one of the central Ukrainian TV Channels and gave interviews to the major Ukrainian TV channels and news agencies. As a result, the IPPNW Odessa conference and issues raised during it became among top news on its opening day and two following days and received a very extensive press-coverage. IPPNW-Russia made its best in fundraising to support fully or partially the participation of physicians, young doctors and medical students not only from Russia but also from IPPNW affiliates in Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the XXth IPPNW World Congress in Hiroshima. Mass Media coverage Mass media paid attention to the activity of IPPNW, including shooting of special movie about possible Global catastrophic events (aired on two Russian TV-channels twice last and this year). I highlighted several facts of extensive activities of IPPNW and core programs of IPPNW to prevent nuclear catastrophe and possible nuclear famine. IPPNW most vital issues: nuclear security, disarmament, proliferation etc. has been on a regular basis aired by broadcasting companies (e.g. Voice of Russia ), news agencies (ITAR-TASS, RIAN, Rossbalt etc) and published in the main Russian newspapers ( Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Parliamentskaya Gazeta, several local newspapers). Conventional Weapons IPPNW-Russia and CIS-affiliates continued programs in the field of inhuman conventional weapons such as AP mines and cluster munitions as well as explosive remnants of war. IPPNW-Russia contributed the report on mine and cluster munitions situation in Russia including Northern and Southern Caucasus to Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor World Reports. IPPNW-Russia also put forward a number of relevant initiatives, among them the supported by ICRC and UN international dialogue between military, technical, medical and law experts on of non-lethal alternatives to AP mines. The most important recent event is formation of lobbying group in Russian Parliament to legalize small lethal weapons in Russia (now only weapons for hunting, pneumatic and traumatic weapons have been allowed to have). So, RUSSSIA try to repeat bad experience of USA. The main reason of that, as many experts believe, is massive replacing of military and police small armaments for new ones. And now millions of such weapons are in storages. So business (and military complex) wants to make profit on such a weapons. Because of that IPPNW-Russia in nearest future will fully join IPPNW AFP program, in which nowadays we are not so active. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS SERGEY KOLESNIKOV Page 4 of 5

5 Best wishes for new IPPNW leadership! I do hope that we shall remain friends for all our lives and will pass our friendship to successors. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS SERGEY KOLESNIKOV Page 5 of 5

6 CO-PRESIDENTS REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: ROBERT MTONGA, IPPNW CO-PRESIDENT (A) GENERAL INTRODUCTION I was elected as a Co-President at the 19 th IPPNW World Congress held in Basel in August I have been serving in the role together with Vappu Taipale and Sergey Kolesnikov in the office of Co-President. (B) ACTIVITIES During my tenure, I have work with closely with other Executive Committee and Board Members on all matters relating to the welfare of IPPNW on behalf the International Council and general membership of IPPNW. (C) INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION ON SISTER BOARDS I represented our federation at many regional and international programmes. Examples include: Serving on the Control Arms Coalition Sterling Board to push for a legally binding Arms Trade Treaty(ATT). Serving as a Governance Board member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions. Serving as vice President of the Injury Prevention Initiative for Africa(IPIFA). (D) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMATIC WORK I also represented IPPNW at the International Campaign Against Nuclear War (IPPNW) campaigners meetings in Geneva and Vienna as well as being part of the IPPNW delegation to the Non-Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCon in Vienna, Austrian early this year. I also attended the ATT PrepCom on behalf of IPPNW, and other related meetings on armed violence such as the Geneva Declaration Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Milestones Meeting in Cape Town South Africa among others under the Aiming for Prevention programme umbrella I used the time at the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the ATT in July 2012 to accost African delegates and engaged them on the need for them to get them to support the push for a Ban on Nuclear Weapons. (E) AFFILIATE CONNECTIONS Finally, I worked closely with the African Regional Vice-President on, including hosting the 7th African Regional Congress held in Livingstone, Zambia in July Kindly allow me to acknowledge the support I received from the International Council in whose name I served as Co-President between 2010 and Compiled and submitted by Dr. Robert Mtonga SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS ROBERT MTONGA Page 1 of 1

7 CO-PRESIDENTS REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: VAPPU TAIPALE, IPPNW CO-PRESIDENT This report extends from April 2009 to August 2010; previous report was submitted to the Board in Helsinki, April 23 rd I have been very pleased and privileged to participate in IPPNW activities and hope sincerely that my contribution has fulfilled at least part of the expectations. IPPNW EC & OFFICE Vappu Taipale has participated most of the EC skype meetings (one absent) and visited IPPNW Boston office several times having opportunities to discuss in depth topical issues of the organisation with our excellent staff in the office. COOPERATION WITH THE IPPNW AFFILIATES Vappu and Ilkka Taipale visited autumn 2009 China and DPRK. In China there was a meeting with Dr Alex Hu, who was planning to found PSR in China, and a meeting with discussions about peace issues from our point of views with the Chinese People s Association for Peace and Disarmament ( vice-chair madam Huan, deputy secretary general Chen Duming) Vappu and Ilkka Taipale visited autumn 2009 DPRK meeting there Kang Mun Ryol, general secretary of KAWPP. The visits of Taedonggang District Hospital and Pyongyang Maternity Hospital were arranged. Vappu and Ilkka Taipale distributed medical and IPPNW books to both hospitals and to KAWPP. Possible cooperation was welcomed. The compatibility of the medical equipment sent to DPRK was heavily stressed. PSR Finland supported KAWPP by purchasing a new computer to KAWPP office. Vappu and Ilkka Taipale participated in the annual conference of IDPD in Agra.January Vappu Taipale gave a speech on ICAN activities. MEETINGS Vappu Taipale has represented IPPNW in the activities of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates organisation. In a preparatory meeting in Rome summer 2009 IPPNW got nuclear issues into the topics of the year s summit. The Summit was organised in Berlin, November 9 th -11 th, and IPPNW had there a strong and influential group of medical students. IPPNW`s statement was made of our student representative Ehase Agyeno NATO held a strategic meeting April 4 th 2010 in Helsinki in order to finalise its new strategy. Vappu Taipale was invited there as a representative of the peace NGO community. However, no statements were allowed, but participation in the discussions only. Cooperation with Pugwash Pugwash and IPPNW have had plans for more cooperation since the Helsinki meeting, April After lengthy considerations a meeting was held in Moscow under topic New Nuclear Reality, April 26-27, 2010 but with a very short notice of the date. Vappu and Ilkka Taipale succeeded to fly to Moscow although the Iceland volcano eruption caused much global trouble. Our Co-President Sergey Kolesnikov was a in a key position to contact the Russian high rank officials which were met during this symposium. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS VAPPU TAIPALE Page 1 of 2

8 PUBLICATIONS Vappu Taipale s article Reflecting Medicine, Conflict and Survival was published in the journal ( 25:4: ) FINNISH PEACE GROUPS Vappu Taipale was in the year 2009 chair of the Alliance of Finnish Professional Peace Organisations (physicians, psychologists, teachers, engineers, artists etc.). This Alliance organises every year national peace meetings and acts as a host for international contacts like World Peace March. It also lobbies national parliament and ministers. Vappu is also a member of the Board of PSR Finland and PSR Finland s Peace Group. IPPNW IS AN IMPORTANT ACTOR IPPNW`s strengths are evident compared to other peace organisations, and we have to keep them vital. We have a strong non-political medical message which gives us credibility among people. We also have a global network of affiliates which allows us discuss among ourselves issues which are politically sensitive and difficult. Our student movement is a rare phenomenon in the world of peace. With these strongholds we have to strengthen our mission further. SECTION III: REPORTS CO-PRESIDENTS REPORTS VAPPU TAIPALE Page 2 of 2

9 BOARD CHAIR REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: BJORN HILT AND WENJING TAO Board activity report and appraisal August 2010 August 2012 This report from the two board chairs is meant as our description of the structure and the activities of the Board of Directors of IPPNW (BoD) and its Executive committee (EC) during the period from the 19 th world congress in Basel in August 2010 up to the 20 th world congress in Hiroshima in August Please see also the report given to the board meeting in Boston in September 2011 and the notes from that meeting. The report has to be seen together with reports from the co-presidents, the Central office (CO), and the programmatic work, and there has been an aim to reduce overlap. At the 19th World congress of IPPNW held in Basel from 25th to 30 th of August, 2010, the IC of IPPNW elected the following persons to serve in the BoD: Co-Presidents: o Sergey Kolesnikov (Russia) o Robert Mtonga (Zambia) o Vappu Taipale (Finland) o Regional Vice Presidents: o Africa: Daniel Bassey (Nigeria) o Europe: Lars Pohlmeier (Germany) o Latin America: Antonio Jarquin (Nicaragua) o Middle East: Ahmed Saada (Egypt) o North America: Ira Helfand (USA) o North Asia: Shizuteru Usui (Japan) o Russia/CIS: Armais Kamalov (Russia) o South Asia: Asoka Hettiarachi (Sri Lanka) o South-East Asia/Pacific: Tilman Ruff (Australia) At Large Members: o Vladimir Garkavenko (Russia) o Bjørn Hilt (Norway) o Andrew Kanter (USA) o Arun Mitra (India) o Andi Nidecker (Switzerland) o Wenjing Tao (Sweden) International student s representatives: o Leila Moein (Iran) o Ogebe Onazi (Nigeria) Ex-officio members: o Speaker of the IC: Herman Spanjaard (The Netherlands) o Deputy speaker of the IC: Kati Juva (Finland) o 2012 Congress president: Jiro Yanagida (Japan) At the first meeting of the incoming board held on 30 th of August in 2010, Bjørn Hilt was elected chairman of the board and Wenjing Tao deputy chair. Along with them, it was SECTION III: REPORTS BOARD ACTIVITY AND APPRAISAL Page 1 of 4

10 decided that the Co-presidents Vappu Taipale, Sergey Kolesnikov, and Bob Mtonga, the elected secretary of the board Ira Helfand and the elected treasurer Lars Pohlmeier, together with the two ISRs Leila Moein and Ogebe Onazi, were to serve as the EC of the board. The IC at the Basel congress decided that the three core federative programs for IPPNW for the period should continue to be International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Aiming for Prevention (AfP) IPPNW student movement development ICAN John Loretz and Tilman Ruff, along with several other IPPNW members have served in the core working group of ICAN. The campaign has since 2010 expanded with an office in Geneva with three employees and also three hired part time campaigners in the Middle East and some other countries. IPPNW representatives worked close with ICRC to develop their resolution on humanitarian aspects on Nuclear weapons issued on November 26, Significant progress has also been made in the research on nuclear famine, with Ira Helfand taking a central role for IPPNW in the project that was launched by him in the spring of 2012 with several presentations in international forums, with a comprehensive report and two peer reviewed scientific papers. The research has been funded through a grant from the Swiss government. Please see separate reports for further activities and achievements. Aiming for Prevention The AfP-program continues to be coordinated by Maria Valenti at the CO with contributions from several IPPNW individuals and affiliates from South-East Asia, Africa, Latin- and North America. Several important achievements has been made this year, amongst others several publications and presentations and successful IPPNW delegations to the up to the Arms Trade Treaty Conference in New York in July 2012 where the IPPNW Medical Alert for a Strong ATT was presented to UN GS Ban Ki-moon by IPPNW ISR Ogebe Onazi. Please see separate reports for further activities and achievements. Students The student movement is governed by the leadership from the two international student representatives (ISRs) Ogebe Onazi and Leila Moein. As always, the students have engaged themselves in several creative activities, and are planning for the Hiroshima BAN Bike Tour and a Target X and Hibakushas world wide exhibition in connection to the World Congress in Hiroshima Please see Ogebe and Leila s report for further activities and achievements. Other programs and activities Several IPPNW affiliates have been working on spreading information on nuclear power and health, attracting significant media attention after the Fukushima disaster in March SECTION III: REPORTS BOARD ACTIVITY AND APPRAISAL Page 2 of 4

11 The CO put together digests of media interviews, articles and other resources produced by IPPNW experts during the height of the crisis, and compiled a special edition in 2011 of Medicine and Global Survival with the highlights of this material. The IPPNW position on nuclear power has become topical once again. A working group, including several board members, has been established for guidance on how to proceed in this matter. Following a process during the preceeding year, the 2011 Boston board meeting came to an agreement that IPPNW work on globalization and health shall be intergrated in the core program work of the organization whenever considered appropriate. Board matters A face to face and well attended board meeting was arranged by the CO in Boston in September 2011 (please see separate notes). During the last two years, the Executive Committee has had mostly monthly conference calls, focusing on the programmatic work and the financial situation of the federation, including fundraising. Individual board members have been invited to attend the EC calls to report on their activities and engagements. The protocols from the EC calls have been distributed to the board and the International Council through mailing lists from the CO. The board has also been informed in advance about the conference calls for input and suggestions. A self-evaluation of the Board was conducted during the spring and summer of The results from the evaluation were presented during the 2011 board meeting in Boston. Even though communications within the board could have been better, it is our appraisal that the board during the last two years has had a satisfactory function and that many of the board members have taken on tasks for the federation in different ways, and partly extensively. In May 2012 the board was informed by the Japanese affiliate about the sad news that the regional vice president for North Asia, Dr. Shizuteru Usui had passed away. This was in the middle of the final preparations for the world congress in Hiroshima, were Dr. Usui had a prominent role. He is badly missed in every sense. The main fundraising activity outside the US of the board and the CO has been the annual IPPNW raffle, made possible through the tireless effort from our treasurer, Lars Pohlmeier, and the CO. In 2011 profit from the raffle was dedicated to the International Fund of IPPNW while the 2012 profits was for the benefit of the Hiroshima BAN bike tour. Some board members also contribute individually on a voluntary basis to funding for IPPNW. Most of the fundraising are taking place in the U.S. through the CO. The CO has welcomed a new co-worker, Garret Fitzgerald, working half-time on fundraising. The EC acknowledge the unequal geographic distribution of fundraising sources, and will continue to focus strategies to increase the donations and grants from Europe on account of the international federation. Thanks to good work and strict housekeeping from the CO, the board has been in the beneficial situation to be able to present and keep to balanced budgets both for the fiscal years and , SECTION III: REPORTS BOARD ACTIVITY AND APPRAISAL Page 3 of 4

12 The board chairs and central office have contacted affiliates with unpaid dues at several occasions, with meagre results. Decisions of moving some of these into silent affiliate status was taken at the 2011 board meeting. Finally, the EC and the board, on account of the federation, must express our gratitude to the CO that has done tremendous work with outmost limited resources. The EC and the CO have cooperated very well, and the CO has also invested a lot of energy in providing assistance and resources to affiliates and other IPPNW members. Working with IPPNW is like gardening; no matter how hard you work, you could always do more. Unlike gardening, you may not always be able to see the immediate fruits of your effort. However, we have seen significant results throughout the years, and lately a gradual change in international opinion with a renewed focus on humanitarian aspects of nuclear weapons, and the increasing awareness amongst decision makers. Our desire for a safe world without nuclear weapons remains as vivid as ever. As IPPNW activists, we will all continue to struggle for it. Trondheim / Stockholm August 2012 Bjørn Hilt Board chair of IPPNW Wenjing Tao Dep. board chair of IPPNW SECTION III: REPORTS BOARD ACTIVITY AND APPRAISAL Page 4 of 4

13 CENTRAL OFFICE REPORT IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: MICHAEL CHRIST, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SUMMARY It is my pleasure to submit this report on behalf of your staff in the Central Office A lot has been accomplished over the past two years since the Basel Congress, which set in motion new energy and plans to elevate IPPNW s contributions to a more peaceful, nuclear weapon free world. IPPNW is in overall better health than it has been in many years. Our finances are good, our priorities are clear, our programs are strong, and communication and collaboration within the federation and with key external partners has been effective. From our bird s eye view in the Central Office, it is evident that our federation is experiencing a renewal of energy, shared purpose, and teamwork. It s an exciting time to be a part of our movement! MISSION AND PROGRAMMING IPPNW s relevance and influence are greater now than any time since the end of the cold war. First, there is renewed determination in the international community to confront the medical and environmental realities of nuclear war. This emerging focus on the so-called catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons has the potential to fundamentally transform the nuclear debate and hasten negotiations on an abolition treaty. Second, IPPNW has played various important roles in this shift -- through our work with leading climate scientists, with ICRC and national Red Cross officials, and with a cadre of influential like-minded governments (esp. Switzerland and Norway) who are determined to highlight the horrendous effects and immeasurable suffering if nuclear weapons were ever used. The IPPNW/PSR Nuclear Famine report and our work with ICAN have been at the center of this exciting progress. Third, and similarly, IPPNW s Aiming for Prevention (AfP) campaign has mobilized the unique expertise and authority of physicians and public health professionals to research the devastating human impact of armed violence, educate health professionals and other key stakeholders, collaborate with other institutions engaged in evidence-based approaches, and advocate for health-promoting policies. The AfP team has also succeeded is forging valuable new North-South affiliate partnerships. Our program work combined is attracting new interest in IPPNW. Our medical students have been especially effective in bringing new visibility and new members to IPPNW. NETWORKING Relationship-building and collaboration with other organizations is a key part of Central Office program work. Over the past two years, with strong encouragement from the IPPNW Executive Committee and Board members, the staff have invested considerable energy in SECTION III: REPORTS CENTRAL OFFICE REPORT MICHAEL CHRIST Page 1 of 3

14 this area. Briefly, staff have been deeply engaged with the following organizations and/or projects, among others: Nuclear Weapons Abolition ICAN (IPPNW founding member, serving on Intl. Core Group) Nuclear Famine contributors ICRC Mayors for Peace Middle Powers Initiative (IPPNW founding member, serving on Executive Committee) the Summits of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates (mostly recently in Chicago, April 2012) Abolition 2000 Armed Violence Prevention IANSA-International Action Network on Small Arms (IPPNW Public Health Network coordinator and on Intl. Advisory Board) World Health Organization Violence Prevention Alliance Control Arms Coalition (IPPNW on Steering Board) Cluster Munitions/ICBL Coalition (IPPNW on Steering Board) Small Arms Survey, Geneva World Bank (partner in HIVE project) FINANCES We are pleased to report good news about IPPNW s finances. For the past two years we ve had budget surpluses, and we expect to have a balanced budget for this fiscal year. In 2011 we ended with a surplus of +$13,500. Fiscal Year 2012 was even better: We exceeded our revenue budget by $210,000 and realized a surplus of +$197,500. This has allowed us to replenish our reserves, which had become dangerously depleted. We now have about $200K in operating reserves, equivalent to four months expenses, in addition to $270K in a restricted endowment fund. In both years we received large bequests from long-time donors who included IPPNW in their final wills before they passed away. Bequest gifts, while often unexpected and unpredictable, are the result of relationship-building with donors over many the years. For the current Fiscal Year 2013 (July 1, 2012 June 30, 2013), the Executive Committee approved a balanced budget of about $600,000, which again includes significant income from bequests. (In fact, we have already received about $76,000 in bequests this year.) This good news notwithstanding, IPPNW still faces some significant financial challenges. These have been discussed at length over the years. The fundamental difficulty is due to the fact that most of IPPNW funds come from aging peace and disarmament supporters in the US. Every year our overall contributions from individuals decline as our donors retire, go on fixed incomes, become ill, or pass away. US donor giving is also impacted by the vagaries of the US economy and the political environment (national elections, particularly in this polarized climate, can depress individual giving). SECTION III: REPORTS CENTRAL OFFICE REPORT MICHAEL CHRIST Page 2 of 3

15 STAFF Your staff in the Central Office has worked in partnership with affiliates, Board members, the Executive Committee, and coalition partners to help shape and advance the many positive developments we have seen over the past two years. I would like to say that I am proud of my colleagues in the office and how hard they have worked. For the past several years, IPPNW has stably employed three full-time and three part-time staff: Michael Christ, Executive Director. Full time. Doug Kline, Finance & Admin Director. Three-quarter time. John Loretz, Program Director. Full time. Maria Valenti, Aiming for Prevention Director. Half time. Aki Morizono, Communications Associate. Full time. Garrett FitzGerald, Development Associate. Three-quarter time. I believe this configuration is the minimal number of staff needed to fulfil the mandate of the Central Office in terms of program support; affiliate, Council, Board and EC support; external networking and communications; World Congress and other meeting support; website and publications; fundraising; and finance and administration. The combined tenure of the IPPNW staff is more than 50 years a testament to both the dedication of staff to IPPNW s mission and to what an incredibly inspiring organization IPPNW is. These are exciting times in IPPNW and for our movement. We re on a roll and we may have the best chance in decades to jump-start serious disarmament negotiations for both nuclear and conventional weapons. There are several international events planned for the coming months that are central to our nuclear abolition and armed violence work. Our challenge at this World Congress is to figure out how we take maximum advantage of these opportunities and chart our course for the coming two years. ### SECTION III: REPORTS CENTRAL OFFICE REPORT MICHAEL CHRIST Page 3 of 3

16 FY12 REVENUE AND EXPENSE REPORT 7/1/2011 to 6/30/2012 IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: DOUG KLINE FY13 Budget FY12 Budget Audited FY11 Variance Revenues: Contributions 237, ,500 (34,000) 258,656 Affiliate Dues & Support 99, ,800 (5,800) 113,867 Grants 25,000 43,000 (18,000) 59,023 Special Events, net 0 8,500 (8,500) 8,169 Investment Income 6,400 5,100 1,300 5,580 International and Board Fundraising 7,000 20,000 (13,000) 14,929 Bequests 180,000 90,000 90,000 89,114 Sales of Books and Publications 1,000 1,200 (200) 1,186 Released from Restricted Funds 40, ,000 10,156 Total Revenues 595, ,100 51, ,680 Expenses: Salaries & Benefits 418, ,019 (34,089) 363,638 Occupancy 35,160 35,010 (150) 32,132 Fundraising database and direct mail 18,700 25,625 6,925 25,758 Travel 72,100 16,450 (55,650) 34,236 Professional Fees 9,500 10, ,091 Interest and Bank fees 7,850 6,850 (1,000) 7,602 Supplies 3,900 3, ,883 Postage 4,050 5,500 1,450 5,942 Maintenance & Repair 3,000 5,000 2,000 6,437 Insurance 4,595 4, ,683 Program & Affiliate Projects 5,000 13,000 8,000 30,585 Telecommunications 3,790 2,687 (1,103) 2,641 Depreciation 4,400 4,000 (400) 4,923 Printing & Publications 3,800 2,800 (1,000) 2,749 Human Resource & Payroll Processing 900 1, ,348 Miscellaneous 625 1, ,443 Total Expenses: 595, ,600 (72,878) 537,091 Excess (Deficiency) ,500 (21,078) 23,589 SECTION III: REPORTS FY12 REVENUE AND EXPENSE REPORT Page 1 of 1

17 PROPOSED BUDGET - 07/01/12-06/30/13 IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: DOUG KLINE FY13 Budget FY12 Budget Audited FY11 Variance Revenues: Contributions 237, ,500 (34,000) 258,656 Affiliate Dues & Support 99, ,800 (5,800) 113,867 Grants 25,000 43,000 (18,000) 59,023 Special Events, net 0 8,500 (8,500) 8,169 Investment Income 6,400 5,100 1,300 5,580 International and Board Fundraising 7,000 20,000 (13,000) 14,929 Bequests 180,000 90,000 90,000 89,114 Sales of Books and Publications 1,000 1,200 (200) 1,186 Released from Restricted Funds 40, ,000 10,156 Total Revenues 595, ,100 51, ,680 Expenses: Salaries & Benefits 418, ,019 (34,089) 363,638 Occupancy 35,160 35,010 (150) 32,132 Fundraising database and direct mail 18,700 25,625 6,925 25,758 Travel 72,100 16,450 (55,650) 34,236 Professional Fees 9,500 10, ,091 Interest and Bank fees 7,850 6,850 (1,000) 7,602 Supplies 3,900 3, ,883 Postage 4,050 5,500 1,450 5,942 Maintenance & Repair 3,000 5,000 2,000 6,437 Insurance 4,595 4, ,683 Program & Affiliate Projects 5,000 13,000 8,000 30,585 Telecommunications 3,790 2,687 (1,103) 2,641 Depreciation 4,400 4,000 (400) 4,923 Printing & Publications 3,800 2,800 (1,000) 2,749 Human Resource & Payroll Processing 900 1, ,348 Miscellaneous 625 1, ,443 Total Expenses: 595, ,600 (72,878) 537,091 Excess (Deficiency) ,500 (21,078) 23,589 SECTION III: REPORTS FY13 PROPOSED BUDGET Page 1 of 1

18 COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS IPPNW 20TH WORLD CONGRESS, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN AUGUST 23 27, 2012 SUBMITTED BY: AKI MORIZONO, COMMUNICATIONS IPPNW ONLINE PEACEANDHEALTHBLOG.COM Twitter.com 1,596 average monthly visitors 4,810 followers FACEBOOK.COM/IPPNW FACEBOOK.COM/AIMINGFORPREVENTION 1,053 likes 121 likes IPPNW.ORG SECTION III: REPORTS COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS Page 1 of 2

19 PEACE AND HEALTH BLOG IPPNW's Peace and Health blog (peaceandhealthblog.com) has been an important platform for news and opinion pieces for our most active writers, with more than 54,000 views since we started in January Readers come to the blog in a number of ways. We have 95 subscribers who get automatically notified of new postings by . Most traffic, however, comes from referring sites, with the top referrers during the past year being ippnw.org (1,302 clickthroughs), Facebook (892), and Twitter (609), all of which are used to publicize new articles as they are posted. Affiliates have a great potential to direct traffic to the blog by linking to it from their websites. We will continue to encourage the IPPNW community to subscribe to the blog and to comment on what gets published, since this helps to increase our visibility online. MONTHLY NEWSLETTER To subscribe, go to ippnw.org and enter your in the blue box Sign up for the E- Newsletter on the right hand side of the page. As of August 2012, there are 2,620 members. This is sent to donors with and anyone who opts-in through the website and facebook. This year we didn t consistently have as many monthly s, however we used this communication tool to remind donors and specific lists about the IPPNW raffle and the Global Day Against Military Spending, and the release of the Nuclear Famine publication. On average about 19% of the recipients open the . Smaller percentages of the people receiving the interact with it in some way, such as clicking a link or forwarding to someone. LISTSERVS To sign up to a list, please send an to the list and follow the directions sent back to you. 1. Aiming for Prevention aiming-for-prevention@googlegroups.com A group for IPPNW health professionals and others interested in a public health approach to preventing armed violence. 2. Forum ippnwforum@googlegroups.com Discussion group for affiliates, students, other activists to exchange ideas, resources, and information on reports and events. 3. IPPNW medical student list ippnwstudents@googlegroups.com Discussion group for affiliates, students, other activists to exchange ideas, resources, and information on reports and medical student events. 4. IPPNW Board ippnwboard@googlegroups.com IPPNW s current Board members (former board members can also request to be on the list) 5. IC list ippnwcouncil@googlegroups.com Current International Councilors and Deputy Councilors VITAL SIGNS International newsletter published twice a year. Available online: ippnw.org/vital_signs.html Please send a basic who/what/where/when and high res photos of affiliate events, actions, accomplishments to amorizono@ippnw.org SECTION III: REPORTS COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS Page 2 of 2