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HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

Hiroshima, the capital of Hiroshima prefecture in Honshu, Japan, is an important commercial and industrial centre. The city was founded around 1594 as a castle city on the Ota River delta. Hiroshima was the target, on August 6, 1945, of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Almost 130.000 people were killed, injured, or missing, and 90 percent of the city was levelled. Much of the city has been reconstructed, but a gutted section has been set aside as a “Peace City” to illustrate the effects of an atomic bomb. Since 1955, an annual world conference against nuclear weapons has met Hiroshima.
2/15/2008

Venues of the IAPMC in 2008
In 2008 two key events for us, members of the IAPMC, are the Executive Board meeting which will be in Suwon, S. Korea from 23-27 April 2008. The second important event is, of course, our annual General Assembly which will be kindly hosted by the city of Sochi, Russian Federation, from 13-16 November 2008. The topic of the General Assembly will be ‘The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Struggle for Peace’.
12/31/2007

60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities has undertaken a campaign to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It will be culminated at our General Assembly in Sochi, Russia on November 13, 2008 under the theme” The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Struggle for Peace!”
@ IAPMC 2005