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1. UNODA Chief Focuses on Youth Engagement in Meeting with NGOs
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... of High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Izumi Nakamitsu's meeting with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the United Nations headquarters in New York on May 1. [2019-05-02] As ...
Created on 02 May 2019
2. High School Students' Conference Stimulates Youth Engagement in Nuclear Disarmament
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in 2001, “Education is the most underutilized tool” to solve global challenges, including disarmament, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction ...
Created on 28 April 2019
3. UN Organizes Events Engaging Youth in Disarmament
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The United Nations played host to three important events in the month of April, focusing on youth engagement. The first of these witnessed the Office for Disarmament ...
Created on 24 April 2019
4. UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
By Jamshed Baruah NEW YORK (IDN) – Deeply concerned about the erosion of the disarmament and arms control framework that reaped significant post-cold-war-era gains, the United Nations is keen to ensure ...
Created on 23 April 2019
5. UN Eager to Advance Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation
(Project Articles)
By Jamshed Baruah NEW YORK (IDN) – Deeply concerned about the erosion of the disarmament and arms control framework that reaped significant post-cold-war-era gains, the United Nations is keen to ensure ...
Created on 23 April 2019
6. New Attempt to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation Threat in the Middle East
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... been consigned to oblivion until the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided  in December 2018 "to entrust to the Secretary-General the convening" of an international ...
Created on 22 April 2019
7. New Attempt to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation Threat in the Middle East
(Project Articles)
... been consigned to oblivion until the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided  in December 2018 "to entrust to the Secretary-General the convening" of an international ...
Created on 22 April 2019
8. African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... that nuclear war between the two nations involving just 100 Hiroshima-sized weapons would cause worldwide climatic disruption and a catastrophic decline of up to 20% of rice and corn production across ...
Created on 14 April 2019
9. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... country joined other African nations to sign the Treaty of Pelindaba to create a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone on the African continent. The African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) – established for ...
Created on 13 April 2019
10. South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal
(Project Articles)
... On April 11, 1996, the country joined other African nations to sign the Treaty of Pelindaba to create a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone on the African continent. The African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) ...
Created on 13 April 2019
11. Germany Backs UN Chief in Countering Autonomous Weapons
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... third session at United Nations Headquarters in New York, during German Presidency of the Security Council from April 29 to May 10, 2019. This will be the third and final session prior to the 2020 Review ...
Created on 17 March 2019
12. Countering Challenges Affecting Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... reduction agreements to succeed New Start. And unlike the other areas of technology under discussion at this conference, there is no United Nations process for considering hypersonic weapons, or the ...
Created on 16 March 2019
13. Strategic Realities Impeding Nuclear Disarmament
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... important insights. These weapons started to proliferate on July 16, 1945, roughly three weeks after the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations. Their spread was partially contained through the ...
Created on 13 March 2019
14. Ushering in an Era of Peace and Disarmament
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... conflict and other reasons, and trade disputes impacting the global economy. Besides, the United Nations has been calling for urgent action on disarmament. SGI, the world's largest Buddhist lay organization ...
Created on 03 March 2019
15. South Africa: From Nuclear Armed State to Disarmament Hero
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... will inspire other African nations to adhere to the Treaty. "As a continent, Africa has historically taken a strong position against nuclear weapons; now individual countries have a unique opportunity ...
Created on 28 February 2019
16. IAEA Keen to Enhance Nuclear Security in Africa
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... Nations, for nearly two years. Against this backdrop, lawyers and nuclear scientists from 10 African countries reviewed the status of their countries’ regulatory frameworks for the security of radioactive ...
Created on 25 February 2019
17. UN Warns Against Emerging Hypersonic Weapon Technologies
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... an enhanced ability to overcome missile defences due to both this manoeuvrability as well as their depressed trajectories relative to standard ballistic missiles, explains the study by the United Nations ...
Created on 24 February 2019
18. On the Precipice of a Multipolar Qualitative Nuclear Arms Race
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Following are extensive excerpts from a video briefing by Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), to the 65-nation Conference ...
Created on 23 February 2019
19. Europe Ventures to Speak Up Against USA
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... lawyer and was UNESCO delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1985-1995, and was Representative of UNAIDS at the United Nations from 1995-2000. [IDN-InDepthNews – 22 February 2019] Photo credit: Munich ...
Created on 22 February 2019
20. Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula
(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)
... [2019-02-20 | P21] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN | SPANISH The signed Armistice established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the de facto new border between the two nations, ...
Created on 20 February 2019