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Peace Walk 2025: Remembering Hiroshima — 80 km for 80 Years

Alt text: Peace Walk 2025 report cover featuring walkers and the “80 km for 80 years” theme.

From September 15–21, 2025, peace walkers traveled 80 km across Mi’kma’ki from Pugwash to Truro to honour the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The walk amplified the urgent call for nuclear disarmament, youth engagement, and non-violent solutions rooted in community care. Read the full report and see the highlights: school visits, youth conference, community gatherings, and statements from survivors and peace leaders.

Letters & Statements



Portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima survivor and ICAN Nobel representative

“Every Step of the Way” — Setsuko Thurlow

Support for ‘Remembering Hiroshima: 80 km for 80 years’ — Sept 15–21, 2025

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Peace Quest Cape Breton logo

Waking the Sleepwalkers: A Call to Action, Not to Arms

Statement by VOW (NS) & Peace Quest Cape Breton — Sept 21, 2025

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Walking Together for Peace

September 8, 2024 – September 21, 2024

Pugwash to Halifax

From September 8–21, 2024, communities across Nova Scotia came together for the Walking Together for Peace initiative — a 200-kilometer journey from Pugwash to Halifax. This walk supported the abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide, called on Canada to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and promoted the vision to Decolonize, Decarbonize, Demilitarize.

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About Us

VOW (the Voice of Women) works locally, nationally, and internationally on issues related to peace, social justice, human rights, and development with the mandate to promote the full inclusion of women in decision-making at all levels of society. NSVOW (The Nova Scotia Voice of Women) is a local chapter of the Canadian VOW.

What we do:

  • Peace Education
  • Peace Advocacy
  • White Poppy Campaign
  • Monthly Vigils
  • Networking

Since their first meeting in Muriel Duckworth’s living room in the 1960s, NSVOW has been a positive and vocal advocate for change, demonstrating against military actions, supporting women living in regions of conflict, and attending UN Conferences.

Today, we continue to work toward peace through public screenings, monthly vigils, peaceful demonstrations, letter writing campaigns, street theatre, and an Annual HRM Peace Day. We collaborate with organizations such as the Nova Scotian Environmental Network, Raging Grannies, Dalhousie Women’s Centre, Physicians for Global Survival, Oxfam, THANS, and more.

Interested in working with us? Contact us today. We welcome your ideas, energy, and enthusiasm.