Global Day of Action on Military Spending
Global Day of Action on Military Spending is held on April 12. The day was originally proposed by the International Peace Bureau and the Institute for Policy Studies with the aim of promoting a common awareness of the amounts of money spent on military. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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Military expenses reach about $1,700 billion each year. On Global Day of Action on Military Spending groups around the world advocate a shift of budget priorities and promote spending this amount of money on human development.
The negative effects of high militarization include not just the direct ones of money and resources being spent on weapons systems instead of being used for human development but also the associated costs of negative health consequences of research, development, testing and even the safe decommissioning of such weapons, especially nuclear, biological and chemical ones.
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