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).”
George was always there. Even before any of us oldtimers. Frederick Douglas said nothing happens without struggle. George would say nothing happens without organization, which is the implementation of struggle. He went about it calmly, methodically, dependably. History teacher that he was, he made sure the struggle was based on truth, a weapon more powerful than even the atom bomb.
It is doubtful that nearly four million declarations of public conscience could have been collected without him and Jean for the ICJ nuclear weapons case. They not only helped to collect them for the movement. They were the public conscience of the movement. Continue reading “Words for George Farebrother”
The historic US nuclear testing site is taking its case for disarmament to the International Court of Justice.
Article by Peter Weiss in the Nation, January 26, 2015
Article on the Marshall Islands Law Suits in the New York Times from December 27 2014
