Disarmament
- Damilola Banjo and Kelechukwu Ogu
- • January 24, 2023
Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane of Japan says his country’s new defense strategy of increasing its military might reflects the need to change the security architecture based on the current environment in East Asia. Yet Ishikane, who spoke to PassBlue on…
- Categories: Asia, Disarmament, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, US-UN Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 28, 2022
It was UN day this week! Hurray!! We saw schoolchildren around the world celebrate the creation of the organization on Oct. 24, 1945, and we also took a cue from the message of the UN secretary-general. You are reading…
- Lutiana Barbosa and Gustavo Macedo
- • August 29, 2022
Think about a weapon that once activated, can select and engage targets without further human intervention. This might sound like science fiction, but autonomous weapons systems, also called killer robots, are being deployed in real time. The Turkish STM…
- Categories: Disarmament, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Angela Kane and Jaime Yassif
- • July 26, 2022
The war in Ukraine has caused severe disruptions to regional and global security, including raising concerns about the potential use of unconventional weapons. Not least of these concerns is the dangerous Russian disinformation campaign alleging biological weapons development in Ukraine,…
- Categories: Disarmament, Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 22, 2021
In 2020, during one of the worst global pandemics in recent history, killing more than three million people that year from the Covid-19 virus, nine nuclear-armed countries spent $72.6 billion on bolstering and modernizing their arsenals, at a rate…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
- Dali ten Hove
- • January 22, 2021
THE HAGUE — An international agreement that bans nuclear weapons became operational on Jan. 22, more than 75 years after the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki heralded the atomic age. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or…
- Categories: Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US-UN Relations
- María Fernanda Espinosa and Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
- • October 24, 2020
Since its founding 75 years ago, the United Nations has proven, with the support of its member countries and other partners, its worth in complex problem-solving. That includes preventing great-power wars, remedying humanitarian emergencies, safeguarding human rights and reducing…
- Categories: Development, Disarmament, Governance, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2020
A “permanent” cease-fire is reached in Libya; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City declines to meet with the president of the UN General Assembly; and what’s going on behind closed-door meetings at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban…
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, General Assembly, LGBT, Libya, This Week @UN
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 21, 2020
VIENNA — For the first time in its 24-year history, state parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a multilateral agreement that bans all nuclear testing worldwide, have taken a controversial decision by a two-thirds majority. Decisions in the…
- Categories: Disarmament
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 6, 2020
Only days before the United States said it would submit a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to extend an Iran arms embargo, the American envoy for Iran has resigned. Brian Hook, who also held the post as…
- Categories: Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Allison Lecce
- • July 15, 2020
For the ninth year in a row, 90 percent of people killed by explosive weapons in urban areas were civilians. The use of these devices is proliferating in conflicts because they are becoming easier to come by — sometimes…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, Security Council
- Angela Kane and Noah Mayhew
- • July 14, 2020
VIENNA — As Russian and American leaders have gathered once more here to discuss bilateral arms control, some experts wonder if arms control is outdated. Earlier this year, Chris Ford, a United States official for international security and nonproliferation,…
- Categories: Disarmament, WORLDVIEWS
- Tariq Rauf
- • December 1, 2019
VIENNA, Austria — Ensconced near the Danube River in this European city is the headquarters of the world’s single-most important means of ensuring safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear energy. Created in 1957, four years after United States…
- Categories: Disarmament, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • October 23, 2019
While Turkey has carried out its plan to invade northeast Syria and the United Nations Security Council has failed to react in a unified way, Russia and Iran have been making their own moves in the UN headquarters in…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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