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=== International organizations ===
European Nuclear Disarmament, which held annual conventions in the 1980s involving thousands of anti-nuclear weapons activists mostly from Western Europe but also from Eastern Europe, the United States, and Australia.
Friends of the Earth International, a network of environmental organizations in 77 countries. Since 2014, however, Friends of the Earth (UK) has softened its stance; the fierce opposition against nuclear reactors has shifted into a more pragmatic opposition, which still opposes the construction of new nuclear (fission) reactors, but doesn't campaign against closing down the existing ones anymore.
Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, an international partnership of 83 nations.
Greenpeace International, a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 41 countries and headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which had affiliates in 41 nations in 1985, representing 135,000 physicians; IPPNW was awarded the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1984 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
OPANAL
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, a global network of over 700 parliamentarians from more than 75 countries working to prevent nuclear proliferation
Pax Christi International, a Catholic group which took a "sharply anti-nuclear stand"
Ploughshares Fund
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Socialist International, the world body of social democratic parties
Sōka Gakkai, a peace-oriented Buddhist organisation, which held anti-nuclear exhibitions in Japanese cities during the late 1970s, and gathered 10 million signatures on petitions calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
World Disarmament Campaign
World Information Service on Energy, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
World Union for Protection of Life

=== Other groups ===
National and local anti-nuclear groups are listed at Anti-nuclear groups in the United States and List of anti-nuclear groups.

=== Symbols ===

== Activities ==

=== Large protests ===