Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- 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 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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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 22, 2021
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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 of …
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
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- Dali ten Hove
- • January 22, 2021
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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 Nuclear …
- Categories: Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 15, 2018
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Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, which concentrates on disarmament, caused a Twitter row late last week after wording on gender stirred up strong feelings between powerful nongovernmental organizations and Britain, surprising other countries as well. The …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
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