International law researchers meet chemical survivors

Tehran Peace Museum board members met the OPCW director-general in The Hague to discuss survivor-led peace outreach and joint publications.

Tehran Peace Museum held its third humanitarian-law workshop with the ICRC and Iran’s national committee, discussing wartime protection and chemical weapons.

Jack Straw and Jeremy Corbyn joined British parliamentarians visiting Tehran Peace Museum. Survivor guides discussed their experiences and difficulties obtaining medical supplies.

Artists performing Playing Chess with Doomsday’s Machine visited Tehran Peace Museum and spoke with its volunteers. The play adapted Habib Ahmadzadeh’s wartime novel.

Researchers published a chemical-war victim quality-of-life assessment using a specific measurement tool. It added attention to survivors’ daily functioning beyond immediate battlefield injuries.

Families and survivors of the Halabja gas attack visited Tehran Peace Museum. The exchange emphasized shared experience and solidarity between victims in Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Tehran Peace Museum hosted a launch of Joost Hiltermann’s study of chemical warfare, bringing researchers and chemical-attack survivors into discussion.

A published study compared serum matrix metalloproteinase levels in chemical-injury patients and controls, investigating possible links with pulmonary disorders.

International peace activists met war veterans and chemical-attack survivors at Tehran Peace Museum before a humanitarian journey to Syria.

Two Iranian children received Hiroshima peace-drawing awards at Tehran Peace Museum, continuing its international peace-education exchanges.