🍁 3 key quotes on the power of nurses to transform health in Canada 🍁 As Past President of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA - @canadanurses), ICN board member Sylvain Brousseau was delighted to deliver the opening remarks at the CNA Conference 2026 in Winnipeg. His speech began by recognizing the importance of CNA’s actions to advance truth and reconciliation for Indigenous People.

🚨 No nurse, no health worker, no humanitarian responder should ever be a target. On #WorldHumanitarianDay, ICN has published a new #NursesforPeace Impact and Stories Bulletin. The bulletin sets out ICN’s work to support and protect nurses in grave humanitarian crises and shows how nurses are leading the response to conflicts, disasters and disease outbreaks around the world. 📖 Read the bulletin and support #NursesforPeace ➡️ bit.ly/4bWb7ox #ActForHumanity @WHPAlliance @HowardCatton

ICN has written to #DRC Health Minister Roger Kamba demanding immediate action to pay and protect nurses and health workers responding to the escalating #Ebola outbreak. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4fYYPhx

🌍 Bonne Journée Internationale des Infirmières ! Aujourd’hui, nous célébrons les 30 millions d’infirmières et d’infirmiers dont les compétences, la compassion et le courage sauvent et améliorent des vies chaque jour. Le thème de cette année pour la #JII2026, #NosinfirmièresNotreFutur – Le pouvoir d’agir des infirmières sauve des vies, nous rappelle une vérité essentielle : les infirmières créent les systèmes de santé les plus solides, les plus sûrs et les plus résilients lorsqu’elles disposent d’un véritable pouvoir d’agir. À un moment où les besoins en santé augmentent et où l’instabilité mondiale s’intensifie, les preuves sont claires : les soins infirmiers ne sont pas un coût, mais un investissement à fort rendement. Nous appelons les dirigeants du monde entier à investir pour un impact réel : des conditions de travail sûres, une rémunération équitable, l’exercice complet des compétences,, une formation solide et des opportunités de leadership. 🔗 En savoir plus : bit.ly/4u0o1c0

🌍 Happy International Nurses Day! Today we celebrate the 30 million nurses whose skill, compassion, and courage save and improve lives every single day. This year’s #IND2026 theme #OurNursesOurFuture, Empowered Nurses Save Lives reminds us of a powerful truth: nurses create the strongest, safest, and most resilient health systems when they are truly empowered. At a time of rising health demands and global instability, the evidence is clear: nursing is not a cost, it is a high‑return investment. We call on leaders everywhere to invest for impact: safe working conditions, fair pay, full scope of practice, strong education, and leadership opportunities! 🔗Read more here: bit.ly/42pJ6R8

Co-hosted by ICN & JNA, the International Workforce Forum is bringing together nurse leaders from around the world to Yokohama this week to tackle the urgent global workforce crisis. Followed by the Japan Nursing Summit, we are working together on solutions to protect, retain and strengthen the profession. Discussions highlight the need for major investment in fair working conditions and national workforce plans to protect and strengthen nursing worldwide. 📰➡️Read the full article on our website: bit.ly/4qRFtOk #Nursing #Nurse #NursingLeadership #GlobalLeadership

Read the full ICN statement on the death of American nurse Alex Pretti: bit.ly/3NERCHM ICN is calling for a transparent, independent investigation and is receiving messages of grief and deep concern from #nurses around the world. Respect for human rights is intrinsic to #nursing ethics. When nurses’ rights are violated, humanity itself is diminished. @ANANursingWorld #NursesforPeace #ProtectNurses

At the 24th World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of #Nuclear War (@IPPNW), ICN and the Japanese #Nursing Association amplified the voice of 30 million #nurses worldwide. ICN Second Vice President Megumi Yamaura-Teshima delivered a moving address urging the full prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons and reaffirming the vital link between #health and peace. ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/43boGvZ #NursesforPeace

ICN President @jlcobosserrano demands zero tolerance for attacks on #nurses and #healthcareprofessionals in conflict zones like Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan and protecting #health workers is non-negotiable. #NursesforPeace ➡️Read more here: bit.ly/483HRLp

Le président du CII @jlcobosserrano demande une tolérance zéro envers les attaques contre les #infirmières et les professionnels de la #santé dans les zones de conflit comme Gaza, l’Ukraine, le Soudan et l’Afghanistan, et insiste sur le fait que la protection des professionnels de la santé est non négociable. #NursesforPeace ➡️En savoir plus : bit.ly/4nOUP46

The @WHO has reported “mass starvation” and a “deadly surge in malnutrition-related deaths” caused by aid blockades, with a quarter of #Gaza’s population facing famine-like conditions, at least three quarters showing “Emergency” or “Catastrophic” levels of food deprivation, and 95% of households facing severe water shortages. ➡️ Read our full article: bit.ly/4fhIylR #nursing #nurses #nursesforpeace