Jan 9, 2017 | Blogroll, Movement News, Parliamentary News
The Arms Control Association announced today that The Republic of the Marshall Islands and its former Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, were voted as the “2016 Arms Control Person of the Year.” Over 1,850 individuals from 63 countries voted on a list of ten...
Sep 6, 2016 | Blogroll, Movement News, Parliamentary News
The Marshall Islands and Kazakhstan are the two most irradiated nations on earth as a result of nuclear weapons tests by the two superpowers during the Cold War. Kenneth Kedi, Speaker of the Marshall Islands parliament, recently traveled to Kazakhstan to speak at an...
Sep 6, 2016 | Blogroll, Movement News
Barry Ladendorf, President of the Veterans for Peace Board, reports on the international conference in Astana, Building a Nuclear Weapon Free World. Reprinted from Common Dreams. The world is witnessing the unthinkable re-emergence of a mini Cold War between nuclear...
Aug 29, 2016 | Blogroll, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention, United Nations
A nuclear working group at the UN concluded its work in Geneva recently and the majority of governments voted to recommended that the UN General Assembly set up a conference in 2017 to negotiate a new treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the only...
Sep 29, 2015 | Blogroll, Movement News, Parliamentary News
Bill Kidd MSP, as co-chair of the Nuclear Disarmament Cross Party Group, hosted an event on 23 September at the Scottish Parliament to mark both the UN International Day of Peace and the UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Organised by...
Sep 28, 2015 | Blogroll, Miscellaneous, United Nations
The stirring condemnation of nuclear weapons by Pope Francis today at the United Nations and his call for their prohibition and complete elimination in compliance with promises made in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), signed by the US in 1970, 45 years ago, should...
