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Concrete proposals to ban nuclear weapons tabled at Geneva UN talks
Back in February, the UN General Assembly authorised the formation of a working group to study legal measures for nuclear disarmament. This week and next week the group convenes again before finishing its work in August. The International Campaign to…
Transparency in the time of opacity
Back in February, the UN General Assembly authorised the formation of a working group to study legal measures for nuclear disarmament. This week and next week the group convenes again before finishing its work in August. The International Campaign to…
Governments meet in Geneva to discuss legal pathway to ban nuclear weapons
Preparations for nuclear war are ongoing. Nuclear-armed states have halted nuclear reductions, engaged in new modernization programmes and have blocked any nuclear disarmament negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament for the past 20 years. With escalating tensions between nuclear possessors,…
Nuclear weapon ban treaty – the only way forward
Last year, the UN General Assembly approved the formation of an Open Ended Working Group on the subject of “Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations”. Work started in February and will finish in August. In the first sessions a range…
NATO wars, refugees and terrorism cannot be seen in isolation from one another: Europe must give a coherent response
Once more we witness acts of terrorism in Europe. These events in western cities killing European citizens are horrific in the eyes of the western media. They should be condemned and all peace-loving human beings condemn them. We in Pressenza…
Britain’s boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks
By Rebecca Johnson on opendemocracy.net. With opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week’s UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks on practical measures to build global security without nuclear weapons. As hundreds of thousands gather to…
All states are legally required to pursue negotiations “in good faith” for nuclear disarmament
As meetings continue at the Open-Ended Working Group in Geneva, Switzerland which has convened to advance in measures for nuclear disarmament, civil society organisations and campaigns have the chance to contribute. ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), of…
Stigmatize and prohibit: New UN talks on nuclear weapons start today
When North Korea tested a nuclear weapon in January, condemnation from all around the world flowed within minutes. A week later, the United States carried out a mock nuclear weapons test of a new type of “more usable” warhead in…
TEDx, Can we prevent nuclear war?
ICAN, February 1, 2016 Dr Ira Helfand, a co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and member of ICAN’s international steering group, explains the grave threat posed by nuclear weapons in today’s world, and our moral obligation…
Doomsday Clock: nuclear arsenals more dangerous now than during the Cold War
Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the “Doomsday clock” at three minutes to midnight, the closest it has been since the height of the Cold War in 1983. Despite the successful Paris Agreement on Climate, the current nuclear arsenals and their modernisation…
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