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Austria announces UN resolution to prohibit nuclear weapons in 2017
Austria’s foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, announced on Wednesday that his country would join other UN member states in tabling a resolution next month to convene negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons in 2017. Speaking in the…
ICAN condemns North Korea’s nuclear test, urges nations to pursue global nuclear weapon ban
September 9, 2016: North Korea today confirmed that it had conducted its most powerful nuclear test explosion to date, with an estimated yield of 10 kilotonnes, triggering a magnitude 5.3 earthquake. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – a…
Majority of UN members declare intention to negotiate ban on nuclear weapons in 2017
United Nations disarmament talks concluded in Geneva on Friday 19th of August with the overwhelming majority of nations signalling their intention to launch negotiations in 2017 for a global ban on nuclear weapons. One hundred and seven nations in Africa,…
To Barack Obama from ‘Hibakusha’ Setsuko Thurlow
Human Wrongs Watch I6 August 2016 (ICAN)* – In June Setsuko Thurlow was awarded the Arms Control Person of the Year Award and a group of us travelled to Washington DC to celebrate with her. During this time she met…
UN nuclear talks: May session ends with huge support for ban
The new UN working group on nuclear disarmament, the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG), completed its second and most substantive session in Geneva today. 100 governments participated over the course of two weeks at the United Nations and many more contributed…
ICAN protests outside missions of governments reluctant to support ban
At the May session of the UN working group in Geneva, a small number of nations extolled the supposed “security value” of nuclear weapons and spoke out against a ban. ICAN protested at the diplomatic missions of some of these…
Concrete proposals to ban nuclear weapons tabled at Geneva UN talks
Back in February, the UN General Assembly authorised the formation of a working group to study legal measures for nuclear disarmament. This week and next week the group convenes again before finishing its work in August. The International Campaign to…
Transparency in the time of opacity
Back in February, the UN General Assembly authorised the formation of a working group to study legal measures for nuclear disarmament. This week and next week the group convenes again before finishing its work in August. The International Campaign to…
Governments meet in Geneva to discuss legal pathway to ban nuclear weapons
Preparations for nuclear war are ongoing. Nuclear-armed states have halted nuclear reductions, engaged in new modernization programmes and have blocked any nuclear disarmament negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament for the past 20 years. With escalating tensions between nuclear possessors,…
Nuclear weapon ban treaty – the only way forward
Last year, the UN General Assembly approved the formation of an Open Ended Working Group on the subject of “Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations”. Work started in February and will finish in August. In the first sessions a range…
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