Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Asking President Biden to Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty
January 22, 2024, marks the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). To date, 70 nations have ratified the treaty. NuclearBan.US, on behalf of 120 national, state, and local organizations,…
Second meeting of TPNW States Parties opens in New York
The first day of the second meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened on Monday 27 November at 10 a.m. and lasted all day at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The…
New York: ICAN activists’ meeting
We publish the diary of events around the International Conference of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons taking place these days in New York; the diary is written for Pressenza by Sandro Ciani of the…
ICAN statement to the UN event on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 2023
On September 26th 2023, Melissa Parke, the new Executive Director for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons delivered the following statement to the High-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons:…
Support grows for the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
Two more countries have taken action to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), bringing the number of signatories to 93 – nearly half of all states in the world – and the number of states parties…
Anthony Donovan’s personal letter to the Russian and US Missions
On this day of President Biden speaking at the UN in NYC, sent a personal letter below to the Russian and US Missions (and White House, etc) Feeling the support of thousands, millions. United States of America Mission to the…
Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals
In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN…
June 2: Nonviolent ecumenical movements call for ratification of the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty
Letters held by the activists, TPNW, are for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons On the pancarts: Nuclear weapons, Resolution for global disarmament passes in the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House Senzatomica and Rete Pace Disarmo (Network…
“G7 Leaders condemn the threat of nuclear weapons and take concrete action to eliminate them”
On the eve of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, with Nagasaki, the symbolic city of the destruction that nuclear weapons can wreak, political and civil society initiatives for nuclear disarmament are also multiplying in Italy. This morning [May 18, 2023]…
Damn pacifists: peace also comes through the narrative of war
His (Translator’s Note: This is Nico Piro’s book) Maledetti pacifisti (Damned Pacifists), winner of the Ilaria Alpi prize, is an important book of denunciation with a provocative title. But is it really still possible to do journalism in the service…
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