Nuclear Disarmament
- Opinion by Yoko Kamikawa
- • March 17, 2024
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Prospects for a world without nuclear weapons are becoming more severe. Divisions are growing not only between nuclear weapon States and non-nuclear weapon States but also among nuclear weapon States and among non-nuclear weapon States over how to pursue nuclear …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS
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- Arthur Bassas
- • March 15, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Japan outs the Security Council; UN experts’ “false promises” on prostitution; UNRWA funding. Plus: Haiti; Sudan; Yemen; Mediterranean shipwreck. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our top story this week: UN Rights Experts …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 11, 2024
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One of Japan’s foreign policy pillars is to secure world peace and stability, but with wars and diverse conflicts raging in almost all regions of the globe, Japan, known for its decades of pacifism since World War II, said the …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 27, 2023
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This week, we focus on the worsening violence in Haiti and a major firing of a UN official for corruption. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 22, 2023
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Beatrice Fihn, a 40-year-old Swede, grew up wanting to make a big difference in humanity, but she did not know how she could do that. First, she thought she would “stitch people up” after they suffered an accident or make …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Women as Changemakers
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
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Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama, working …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War, US Foreign Relations
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 1, 2022
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- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Women
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • September 9, 2022
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VIENNA — Poland and Canada have circulated a draft resolution among members of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticizing Russia’s “violent actions against nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the ongoing presence of Russian forces and …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Stephane Bussard
- • August 31, 2022
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After three weeks of negotiations at the United Nations headquarters, the 191 states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) failed to adopt a final document at the 10th review conference of the NPT, held from …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Dawn Clancy
- • August 25, 2022
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On the same day that Ukraine marked 31 years of independence from Soviet rule and six months of war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by video to the United Nations Security Council about the worldwide impact of Russia’s …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 29, 2022
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This week, we focus on the deadly attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and assaults in Yemen, leading to deaths of children. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • May 3, 2022
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency expressed “grave concern” recently about the safety at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, in Zaporizhzhia, and said that the situation for the Ukrainian personnel working there was “unsustainable.” The plant was captured by …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 4, 2022
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- Categories: Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Nikolai Sokov
- • March 24, 2022
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- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 25, 2021
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Rafael Grossi of the IAEA on Iran, gender bias and diplomacy; nuke-weapons countries just keep spending billions; European peacekeepers attacked in Gao, Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is …
- Categories: Africa, LGBT, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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