Implementing the legal norm for abolition
Presentation to the United Nations Open-ended Working Group on
Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations
Delivered by Dr Daniel Rietiker PhD
President of the Association of Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament
(Swiss affiliate of IALANA)
CND and supporting organisations are working hard to build the biggest mobilisation against nuclear weapons in a generation. The Stop Trident demo on the 27th February 2016 could well prove to be a vital intervention ahead of the Parliamentary decision on whether to replace Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons system.
Below is a letter that Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy sent on July 23 to New York Senators Schumer and Gillibrand urging support for the Iran agreement. If you are in the United States and have not done so already, it’s definitely worth getting in touch with your senators and representatives on this extremely important matter. Continue reading “P5 Unity on the Iran Deal and the Fate of the NPT”
A Revealing NPT Review Conference
There’s a lot to unpack regarding the recently concluded NPT Review Conference. Despite the failure to reach agreement, there are some encouraging trends. See below for a concise guide! Plus the latest developments in the Marshall Islands Nuclear Zero cases in the International Court of Justice and more.
eNews of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), July 2015
Find here the IALANA newsletter of June 2015, after the NPTR 2015
Peace&Planet Conference
Presentations Side Event: Nuclear Weapons in Europe
– Ludo de Brabander (vrede, Belgium)
– Dave Webb (CND, GB)
– Jean-Marie Collin (PNND, France) will come soon!
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IALANA paper, Nuclear Disarmament: The Road Ahead, April 2015
For the NPT Review Conference 2015 IALANA prepared a special newspaper. Among others, it includes articles on the RMI Nuclear Zero Cases, 70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and recommendations for the NPTR2015
The NGO conference “Peace&Planet” will take place in New York on 24/25 April 2015. Please find here the first program. The registration is now open.
“The principal judicial organ of the United Nations, which is responsible for binding interpretation of international law, decided that “the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, and in particular the principles and rules of international humanitarian law” (ius in bello).”
