Jan 15, 2021 | Blogroll, Nuclear Ban Treaty, United Nations
Today, January 15, 2021, in advance of next week’s two milestones of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on January 22 and the 75th anniversay of UN General Assembly Resolution 1(1) two days later, the Coordinating...
Aug 25, 2020 | Blogroll, Movement News, United Nations
International youth delegation from the German branch of Abolition 2000 (the national campaign “Buechel is everywhere – nuclear-weapon-free. now!”) and Abolition 2000 Youth Network attended the 2019 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
Nov 9, 2019 | Blogroll, Movement News, United Nations
From Thursday October 24 (UN Day) to Wednesday October 30, a team of volunteers in New York City counted out $542 billion – the approximate global nuclear weapons budget for the next five years – and symbolically reallocated this to peace, climate protection, poverty...
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,...
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...
