The "Biological weapons from the International Law perspective" meeting was held by the Tehran Peace Museum and the Secretariat and Specialized Library of the National Committee for Humanitarian Rights on Monday, September 7, 2022, at the Tehran Peace Museum, with the presence of participants from various disciplines, including international law.

The meeting was held with the presence of professors of biological weapons and experts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

firstly, the epidemiology of biological threats, types of microorganisms, their characteristics, effects, and consequences, the classification of biological agents, as well as the appearance of biological threats in Iran and its neighbors was explained and the key factors of epidemiology were introduced by a professor of the University of Medical Sciences.

Next, one of the lecturers explained the structure and content of the Biological Weapons Convention, as one of the most complete international documents in the field of disarmament.

The other speakers of the meeting discussed and analyzed Article 7 of the Convention. He explained how this international legal document can be strengthened through Article 7, and while identifying the drawbacks that exist in the way of the implementation of this document, he presented solutions for the implementation of the convention.

Tehran Peace Museum organized a workshop on preparing Iranian non-governmental organizations to participate in the 27th Conference of state parties Chemical Weapons Convention to empower Iranian NGOs participating in the conference on the 16th and 17th of August.

Topics such as the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Conference of state parties, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were discussed in this workshop with the presence of representatives of seven related organizations from various cities in Iran.

The first day of the workshop started with discussing the subjects such as the history of utilizing chemical weapons in the world and Iran, the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and its national authority located in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also the structure of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was studied. This day ended by receiving suggestions and questions.

 The memorial ceremony of Ms. Saba Bababae (Kuniko Yamamura), a peace activist at the Tehran Peace Museum, was held on Wednesday, July 22,

the meeting hall of the City Park; Peace activists, volunteer members of the TPM, chemical weapons veterans and Ms. Bababae's family attended the ceremony.

In this ceremony, selected parts of Saba Bababae's autobiography written by Hamid Hessam and Masoud Amirkhani were recited. 

At the beginning, Dr. Seyed Abbas Araghchi (former ambassador of Iran to Japan) gave a speech about the prominent traits of Ms. Bababae as a Muslim woman. Afterwards, Dr. Mohammad Reza Soroush (President of Tehran Peace Museum) spoke about Ms. Bababae's invaluable endeavors at the TPM.

The workshop to analyze the latest developments in diplomacy training courses in European universities with the presence of a group from the non-governmental organization Crisis Management Initiative (CMI)- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, as well as the second day of workshop to review the newest developments in crisis management training courses in European universities with the presence of Ms.  Dr. Mirushe Hoxha, Professor at the faculty of philology Blaze Koneski, Department of Albanian Language and Literature, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopja was held on Sunday, August 23, 1401 by Allameh Tabataba’i University in collaboration with TPM.

After visiting Tehran Peace Museum, The first part of the workshop started with the presence of the delegation of Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation of Finland consisting of Dr. Jaane Taalas (Executive Director), Mr. Maruan El-krekshi (Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department), Mr. Oskari Eronen (Head of the Asia Department) and  Mrs. Marcia Cimino (Project Manager of the Middle East and North Africa Department).

The ceremony of commemorating the National Day of Victims of Chemical and Microbial Weapons and the 35th anniversary of the chemical attack on Sardasht was held on Wednesday, July 8, in Tehran Peace Museum. 

First, the video message of Fernando Arias, director general of  the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was played. 

The representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mr. Eshraq Jahrami read the message of Mr. Hossein Amirabdollahian (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran).. 

Then, the statement of Tehran Peace Museum and Society of Chemical Weapons Victim Support (SCWVS) was recited by Dr. Hamid Salehi, a member of the board of directors of Tehran Peace Museum. 

The first webinar in monthly webinars series of the Tehran Peace Museum (TPM) which covered an introduction to international humanitarian law (IHL) was held by the TPM, Communication and International Affairs Center of the Municipality of Tehran, and International Council of Museum Iran (ICOM) on Zoom on July 25th, 2021. In this webinar, Dr. Pouria Askari spoke about IHL and Ms. Mona Badamchizadeh introduced the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum - Geneva.

The “Symphony of Coughs 3” Webinar Held

The Symphony of Coughs 3 webinar was held on the occasion of the anniversary of the chemical attack on Sardasht on June 30, 2021. The meeting which lasted from 2-4 pm, was held by Tehran Peace Museum (TPM), Iranian Center for International Criminal Law (ICICL), Communications and International Affairs Center of the Municipality of Tehran and the Organization for Defending Sardasht Victims of Chemical Weapons (ODVCW) on zoom platform. This meeting was held with the purpose of investigating aspects of legal prosecution of the use of chemical weapons (CW) against Iran and answering questions on this topic. It was a follow up on “Symphony of Coughs 1” and “Symphony of Coughs 2” seminars previously held by TPM.

The Commemorative event for the Victims of Chemical Weapons and the 10^th Opening Anniversary of Tehran Peace Museum Held.

The commemorative event for the all victims of chemical weapons and the 10^th opening anniversary of Tehran Peace Museum (TPM) on the occasion of the 34^th anniversary of the chemical attack on Sardasht, was held by TPM, Communications and International Affairs Center of the Municipality of Tehran and the Organization for Defending Sardasht Victims of Chemical Weapons (ODVCW) on July 29, 2021 from 11 am to 1 pm on the zoom platform.

In this program, first, the video message of Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), H.E. Fernando Arias on the occasion of the 34^th anniversary of the chemical attack of Sardasht was played. Then the message of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Dr. Javad Zarif on this occasion was read by the host.

"Peace Reporting Simulation" workshop was held by Iran Secretariat of MFP and the Peace Reporters Association and Iranian Association for Peace Studies at the Tehran Peace Museum 27, 28 December 2019.

The basics and principles of peace reporting, based on how a reporter can prevent biased and escalation and the ways of coverage the truth news to the audience was the topics that educated on the first day of the workshop.
Principles of humanitarian law, the need to protect civilians and not to attack civilian places and the protection of journalists was trained on the second day.
The program also discussed the political history of Afghanistan and the process of peace negotiations between America and the Taliban.

The final section was a simulation of peace reporting on the subject of Afghan peace negotiations.
The participants were divided into different groups and reported on the topics, they had learned during the workshop.
Upon completion of the group reporting, the representatives of each group read their report to the public, and lecturers corrected the texts and explained the important points of each report.

In the end, the participation certification was awarded to participants.

Two Volunteers of Tehran Peace Museum participated in the “Science for all” festival run by Iran’s National Science Museum in November.

Science for all is a festival which provides people with the opportunity to gain knowledge about different aspects of science. In this festival, Ms. Farzaneh Nazari who was one of the participants of "Hiroshima and Peace 2018"course, delivered a speech regarding the peaceful ways of using nuclear energy. The main sections of her speech were about nuclear structure, application of nuclear energy in health, agriculture, water resource management, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima and Chernobyl and also Hiroshima atomic bombing.

Ms. Mona Badamchizadeh who was also an intern of Mayors for Peace organization held a digital art exhibition by artworks related to the consequences of using weapons of mass destruction with support from TPM and Iran’s National Science Museum.

It is worth mentioning that two paintings from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s collection were also digitally displayed. These are two examples of TPM volunteer’s contribution toward raising people’s awareness regarding the effects of weapons of mass destruction.