Jul 8, 2018 | Blogroll, Commentaries
By Alice Slater for World BEYOND War. Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its...
Feb 25, 2015 | Blogroll, Commentaries, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention
Reposted from the Basel Peace Office – see International lawyers group outlines the road to nuclear disarmament With the 2015 NPT Review Conference just two months away, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) has released a paper...
Dec 12, 2014 | Blogroll, Commentaries, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention, United Nations
9 December- The Austrian government has pledged to work with all interested stakeholders to ” to fill the legal gap for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons”. The government conference, following on ICAN’s incredible civil society...
Sep 1, 2014 | Commentaries, Miscellaneous
At this very moment in history, when so many people and nations around the world are acknowledging the 100th Anniversary of our planet’s hapless stumble into World War I, great powers and their allies are ironically once again provoking new dangers where...
Aug 4, 2014 | Commentaries, Movement News
Abolition 2000 Global Council Urges Japan Not to Abandon Article 9 of its Peace Constitution and to Lead Efforts for Negotiations to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. ARTICLE 9: Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people...
Jul 14, 2014 | Commentaries, Miscellaneous
April 21, 2014 Linus Pauling Award lecture by Zia Mian, – “Out of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle Against the Bomb,” Transcript is available when you click read more. Transcript Faye Chadwell: It’s my pleasure to introduce Dr. Joseph...