Dec 22, 2017 | Blogroll, Nuclear Ban Treaty
It has been just 10 years since ICAN first launched its astonishing campaign to ban nuclear weapons. By Alice Slater, originally published on The Nation website here. In Oslo on December 10, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish...
Dec 6, 2017 | Blogroll, Nuclear Ban Treaty
As a 13-year-old schoolgirl in 1945, Setsuko Thurlow survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. A beautifully animated short film, If You Love This Planet brings to life Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow’s passionate call to action, on the day that the Treaty on the...
Oct 6, 2017 | Blogroll, Nuclear Ban Treaty
We republish here the statement of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee confirming the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a network affiliated to Abolition 2000, and send them our warmest congratulations, and we hope that this...
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...
