Let us move towards a world without nuclear weapons
… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Vienna, Austria, 21-23 June 2022 The … Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The Japanese Red Cross …
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Op Ed: Nuclear weapons are finally outlawed; next step is disarmament
… War I so horrified the world that chemical weapons were banned only seven years after the … and inhumane weapon was unleashed. Nuclear blasts decimated two Japanese cities … that, like poison gas after World War I, nuclear weapons too must be banned outright. …
A date to remember: the banning of Nuclear Weapons in 2021
… That’s the day the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons enters into force, the day that nuclear weapons become prohibited. On this …
ICRC attends event on nuclear weapons organized by CACDA in Beijing
… suffering that would result from the use of a nuclear weapon. Pierre Dorbes, head of the … remove some of the perceived obstacles to nuclear disarmament. This would create an … commitments to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons use in the run-up to the 2020 …
Why A World Free From Nuclear Weapons is Worth Fighting For
… and land. It had come from the testing of a nuclear weapon. This scene was not a singular … event for the region. For over 12 years nuclear testing was carried out in the … Cross Society. This is the reality of nuclear weapons, and nuclear testing. Today is the …
Urgent action needed to reduce the risks of nuclear weapons
… Statement Nuclear Weapon Risks Symposium, United Nations … carried out to further the understanding of nuclear weapon risks. UNIDIR’s work builds on … of the increasing danger that nuclear weapons will be used – intentionally, …
Protect all humanity by ratifying the nuclear weapon ban treaty
… decisive action to prohibit and eliminate weapons that have unacceptable humanitarian … and Red Crescent Movement to advocate that nuclear weapons must never be used again and … Crescent Movement’s call to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. In 2017, 122 States …
We are here with a common goal: to eliminate nuclear weapons
… Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York, 27 November 2023 Mr … our meaningful collective efforts to advance nuclear disarmament. We are here with a common …
Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urge us to eliminate nuclear weapons
… among them are due to cancer. Yet the two nuclear bombs which caused such untold human … to most of the bombs in the arsenals of nuclear-armed States today. What more … ensure the complete elimination of nuclear weapons? Before it is too late. The horror …
Key conference on curbing spread of nuclear weapons ends in failure
… to review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament has ended in failure. The …
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