http://www.abolition2000.org No Nukes, No Wars! Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:16:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MINUTES OF ABOLITION 2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010 Read the Minutes... PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE PAGE Read the Statements... REPORT ON THE MORNING NGO ABOLITION CAUCUS by Alice Slater The NGO Abolition Morning Caucus met every day during the four week Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference starting on Tuesday, May 4th straight through to the last day ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1 Non-proliferation Treaty Conference in New York: The way to a nuclear weapons-free world is still not open.  Obama allows warheads to be produced. NATO modernizes its arsenal. By Reiner Braun Originally in Junge Welt 26.05.2010 / Focus / Page 3 It has been 40 years since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed. The states without nuclear ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1283 by Alice Slater While the world applauds the growing recognition that the abolition of nuclear weapons seems to be an idea whose time has finally  come—from the calls by rusty cold warriors and former statesmen and generals to eliminate nuclear weapons—to the recent modest START negotiated by President Obama and Medvedev ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1222 Written by Andrew Lichterman Original article: Disarmament Times In May, disarmament organizations will assemble alongside government delegations meeting for the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference. Coming together in side events between attempts to pursue and persuade diplomats has become a familiar practice among the world’s nongovernmental organizations, and should provide an ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1215 Does the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty move us any closer to a world free of nuclear weapons? Original article: Yes Magazine by Alice Slater Following the first START agreement, the United States destroyed hundreds of B52 bombers and displayed them for view by Russian satellites. Both nations have destroyed Cold War weapons, ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1201 Support for nuclear disarmament has spread to the heart of the Atlantic alliance and beyond. By Alice Slater, March 9, 2010 Original article at www.fpif.org President Obama's call for a nuclear-weapons-free world in Prague last April unleashed a great outpouring of support from international allies and grassroots activists demanding a process to actually ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1186 by Dave Robinson Executive Director, Pax Christi USA Original article at www.paxchristiusa.org Scripture tells us: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Pro. 29:18). One must also say that where there is no courage, the vision perishes. In his Prague speech, President Obama offered a courageous vision of a world released from ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1182 The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) has launched its new blog, "Fissile Material" http://www.fissilematerials.org/blog providing news and analysis of military and civilian stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the key nuclear weapon materials. The reduction and elimination of fissile materials and control of their production is critical to nuclear weapons disarmament, to halting the proliferation ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1160 With 142 member nations already signed on, the new International Renewable Energy Agency is promoting a fast, global transition to clean, safe, and renewable energy.by Alice Slater original article in YES Magazine Since 1995, when more than 170 nations voted to extend the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, civil society has been calling for ... http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1136 PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN IRENA (137 nations) http://www.irena.org/downloads/Foundconf/Signatory_States_20091006.pdf COUNTRIES NOT YET SIGNATORY STATES OF IRENA, 11/09 (55 nations) Andorra Bahamas Barbados Belgium Belize Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Burma Burundi Canada China Columbia Comoros Croatia Cuba Czech Republic Dominica El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Guyana Haiti Holy See Hungary Jamaica Korea, North Kyrgyzstan Laos Macedonia Malaysia Marshall Islands Mexico Mozambique Myanmar Namibia New Zealand Qatar Russia Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Singapore South Africa Suriname Taiwan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkmenistan Tuvalu Ukraine Venezuela Vietnam http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1116