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Interview with ICAN executive director

Screenshot shows Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner, giving an online interview on Jan. 14, 2026.

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ICAN Australia director Romuld makes speech

Gem Romuld, director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Australia, delivers a speech in Sydney on Nov. 11, 2025.

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80th A-bomb anniversary

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, speaks during an international symposium in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, holds a press conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 4, 2025, two days ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, holds a press conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 4, 2025, two days ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, holds a press conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 4, 2025, two days ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume (L), 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume, 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Atomic bomb survivor Fumiko Hashizume (L), 93, from Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, describes her experiences in Hiroshima during an event in Oslo co-hosted by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, on Dec. 9, 2024, the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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ICAN academy in Hiroshima

Participants in the ICAN Academy, organized by the Hiroshima Prefectural government and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), where young people from around the world learn about nuclear weapons and security, pose for a photo in front of the World Heritage-listed Atomic Bomb Dome in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Nov. 13, 2024.

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ICAN treaty coordinator Wright in Hiroshima

Tim Wright, treaty coordinator of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), holds a press conference in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Nov. 13, 2024.

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[Breaking News]ICAN executive director in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, gives an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2024. (Kyodo)

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ICAN executive director in Nagasaki

Melissa Parke (2nd from L), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, is pictured in front of a monument for atomic bomb victims at Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 21, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Nagasaki

Melissa Parke (front), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, rings the Bell of Nagasaki at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 21, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Nagasaki

Melissa Parke (front, R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, rings the Bell of Nagasaki at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 21, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Nagasaki

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, prays at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at Hypocenter Park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki, on Jan. 21, 2024.

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ICAN chief Melissa Parke in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, visits the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024.

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ICAN chief Melissa Parke in Tokyo

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, visits the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, gives an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, gives an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, gives an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, offers a silent prayer in front of a monument for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Jan. 20, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, visits the World Heritage-listed Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Jan. 20, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, makes a speech in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 20, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, makes a speech in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 20, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, waves while making a speech in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 20, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, lights a candle during an anti-nuclear event in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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CAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (4th from R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, takes part in an anti-nuclear event in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024.

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CAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, prays at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, offers a wreath at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (L), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in the western Japan city on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (L), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, poses for a photo with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in the western Japan city on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, signs a guestbook at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japan city on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Hiroshima

Melissa Parke (C), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japan city on Jan. 19, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Tokyo

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, speaks during a forum with Japanese lawmakers and hibakusha in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2024.

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ICAN executive director in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, known as ICAN, attends a forum with Japanese lawmakers and hibakusha in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2024.

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ICAN leader Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, gives an interview at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 2, 2022. A review conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opened the previous day and will run through Aug. 26 in New York.

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ICAN leader Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, gives an interview at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 2, 2022. A review conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opened the previous day and will run through Aug. 26 in New York.

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ICAN leader Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speaks to the press in Vienna on June 17, 2022.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The logo of ICAN, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, is projected inside a room of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2017. Nobel Peace Prize laureates and their work are exhibited in the room of the Nobel Peace Center, which opened in 2005. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Peace Prize

Members of ICAN, a group campaigning for a total ban on nuclear weapons, appeal for the general public to join them in realizing a world without nuclear arms in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2017. The Melbourne-based international anti-nuclear campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Peace Prize

Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow (L) and Beatrice Fihn, head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, smile on the balcony of their hotel in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 10, 2017. The two attended a ceremony held at the Oslo City Hall the same day for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to Fihn's ICAN campaign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel Peace Prize

Masakazu Saito (L), a 93-year-old atomic bomb survivor, cries at a press conference held at Narita airport on Dec. 13, 2017. Saito returned from Oslo where he and some 30 other survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings appealed for peace as ICAN, a group complaining for a total ban on nuclear weapons, received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is pictured in Geneva on Oct. 2, 2020.

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ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is pictured in Geneva on Oct. 2, 2020.

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ICAN in Singapore

Beatrice Fihn (C), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and Akira Kawasaki (L), an ICAN international steering committee member, hold a press conference in Singapore on June 11, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn

File photo taken in January 2018 shows International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Executive Director Beatrice Fihn delivering a keynote speech at a symposium in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ICAN chief urges Diet debate on Japan joining nuke ban treaty

Beatrice Fihn (C), executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speaks in a meeting with Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2018. Fihn called for parliamentary discussions in Japan on the possibility of Tokyo signing the U.N. nuke ban treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ICAN chief urges Diet debate on Japan joining nuke ban treaty

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, speaks in a meeting with Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2018. Fihn called for parliamentary discussions in Japan on the possibility of Tokyo signing the U.N. nuke ban treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ICAN in Hiroshima

Beatrice Fihn (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, meets 80-year-old atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura in Hiroshima on Jan. 15, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo