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- Arthur Bassas
- • August 23, 2023
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Hundreds of cluster munitions have been used on Ukrainian territory since the full-scale war began in February 2022 as countries across the world have continuously condemned their deployment. Now it appears that the munitions the United States is sending…
- Categories: Disarmament, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Eloisa Romani and Zahraa Kapasi
- • August 8, 2023
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For the disarmament agenda to progress, its machinery needs to be revisited. Current efforts by the Conference on Disarmament — the United Nations body tasked with negotiating treaties on weapons control — have stalled for almost 30 years because…
- Categories: Disarmament, General Assembly, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 14, 2023
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This week, we look at Russia’s continued degradation of the UN Security Council as rotating president in April while it wages illegal war on Ukraine; and a c’est la vie shrug from the UN spokesperson on reports of the…
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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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…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Women as Changemakers
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 3, 2020
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The annual debate of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ended on Sept. 29, after a weeklong screening of prerecorded video speeches by 190 member states. The numbers were impressive: videos by 102 heads of state, 1…
- Categories: General Assembly, This Week @UN
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- Opinion by Tariq Rauf
- • December 1, 2019
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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, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Angela Woodward
- • August 20, 2012
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Good things take time. Evidently, 10 years of advocacy efforts led by a group of Nobel laureates and an international nongovernmental organization campaign, five years of consultations and preparatory work and a month of negotiations at the United Nations…
- Categories: Disarmament, OPINIONS
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