Watch the videos here:
1st part (Introductions+Welcome, Tony de Brum, Phon van den Biesen, Judge Christopher Weeramantry)
2nd part (Marylia Kelley, David Krieger)
Manuscript of the opening speech by Otto Jäckel, Chair IALANA Germany
Friday, 5 December 2014, 2 – 5:30 pm, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, Vienna
Sponsored by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The world as we now know and inhabit it is imperiled by both nuclear weapons and global warming. No country better illustrates the twin existential threats than the Marshall Islands. LCNP is on the legal team representing the Marshall Islands in its Nuclear Zero cases in the International Court of Justice. And with Foreign Minister Tony deBrum we examined the two threats and what to do about them at a September 20 Climate Convergence workshop held in connection with the Peoples Climate March and the UN Climate Summit. See this eNews for more about these and other LCNP activities.
eNews of Lawyer’s Committee on Nuclear Disarmament, Nov 2014
On Sep 26, we asked people around the world: How many nuclear weapons do you think are in the world? And how many should there be?
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Check here a compliation video of actions:
CALL TO ACTION: SPRING 2015 MOBILIZATION for a nuclear free, fair, democratic, ecologically sustainable and peaceful future
PRESS RELEASE, Sept 26 2014: International NGO Network Launches Plans for 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference – Demands Fulfillment of NPT through Commencement of Negotiations for Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons – Highlights Links to Climate Change and “Move the Money” Organizing Campaigns
Workshop, September 20 2014
Nuclear weapons and climate change are the two existential threats that face humanity, and the military is one of the largest contributors to climate change. Part one of this workshop will consider the ways that climate change will intensify conflicts and war risks generated by a system based on competition among immense organizations and endless growth. It also will explore the role in the global economy of state-dependent high-tech enclaves, including the nuclear energy sector and the military-industrial complex. The second part of the workshop will provide perspectives from people working on a variety of initiatives from the local to the global aimed at finding ways to make progress when the politics in national capitals is locked up.
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Read the report by Reiner Braun here
U.S. Motion to Dismiss – RMI Response Next Week
On August 21, the Marshall Islands will submit its 15-page response to the U.S. Motion to Dismiss. The U.S. will have the opportunity to reply to the RMI response on September 8, and there is a hearing scheduled at the Federal Court in Oakland on September 12. Continue reading “News on the Republic of Marshall Islands Law Case”
With this special newsletter IALANA and INES would like to provide you with an overview of the “Marshall Islands Case”, designed to legally support the wide range of activities for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
