Japanese youth messengers for peace petition against nukes on U.N. visit

A group of Japanese high school students on Tuesday submitted to the United Nations more than 110,000 signatures calling for the abolishment of nuclear weapons 80 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Four boys and 20 girls selected from across Japan as this year's peace messengers conveyed the voices of aging survivors of the atomic bombings in a meeting with Carolyne-Melanie Regimbal, chief of service of the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs' Geneva Office."Eighty years ago, the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki left behind deep wounds and unfath…READ FULL ARTICLE