Jun 7, 2017 | Blogroll, Nuclear Weapons Convention, United Nations
The second session of United Nations negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons (ban treaty), will take place in New York from June 15 – July 7. A draft of the ban treaty was released on May 22 by Ambassador Elayne G. Whyte Gómez,...
Feb 24, 2017 | Blogroll, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention, United Nations
by Alyn Ware, Member of the Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee. On 16 February, approximately 100 countries gathered at the United Nations for the first session of negotiations on a legal agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons. The participants included two...
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...
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 15, 2014 | Blogroll, Energy, Miscellaneous, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention
by Alice Slater Global Momentum is building for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons! While the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, there is no explicit legal prohibition of nuclear weapons, although the International Court of Justice ruled unanimously that...
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...
