Jul 2, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
On July 1, at the close of its 87th Annual Meeting, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), unanimously adopted a bold new resolution, “Calling on All Presidential Candidates to Make Known Their Positions on Nuclear Weapons and to Pledge U.S. Global Leadership...
Jun 21, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News
On October 24, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted General Comment 36 on the Right to Life, which affirmed, amongst other things, that the ‘threat or use of nuclear weapons is incompatible with the Right to Life and may amount to a crime under...
Jun 5, 2019 | AGM, Blogroll, Movement News, United Nations
Abolition 2000, at its Annual Assembly in New York on May 5, 2019, established a new working group on Peace, climate protection, nuclear abolition and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to: a) build cooperation between the constituencies working on these issues,...
Nov 21, 2018 | Blogroll, Movement News
[South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting of April 27, 2018. Photo: Korea Summit Press | Reuters]. In their historical meeting in June 2018, USA President Trump and North Korea Leader Kim Jong-un...
Aug 7, 2018 | Blogroll, Movement News
The nuclear abolition movement is alive and active. This we can see from hundreds of actions and events taking place around the world this week to commemorate Hiroshima Day (August 6), Nagasaki Day (August 9) and International Youth Day (August 14). Events include...
