by Lorel Thomas | 19 Feb 2021 | MiddleGround Journal
On 7 July 2017 the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was formally adopted by the UN General Assembly by an overwhelming majority of the world’s governments. This was a testament to the years of advocacy by the International Campaign to Abolish...
by Lorel Thomas | 2 Oct 2017 | Other
On August 11, I attended a Disarmament Dinner organised by ICAN, to celebrate the historic UN adoption of the treaty to abolish nuclear weapons. ICAN began in Australia, and speakers outlined the history of this movement and called for support to encourage the...
by Lorel Thomas | 29 Nov 2016 | Blog, Nuclear weapons
On Monday November 21 I attended the ICAN roundtable focusing on the banning of nuclear weapons by Pacific Islands nations. In addition to those of us physically present a number of people joined the meeting via Skype, enabling representation from the Marshall...
by Lorel Thomas | 28 Aug 2016 | Nuclear weapons
United Nations disarmament talks ended in Geneva on August 19, with 107 nations backing a report recommending that a conference be held next year to negotiate “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”. An...
by Lorel Thomas | 20 Apr 2016 | Blog, Nuclear weapons
March this year saw two significant events in the history of nuclear energy and disarmament. One, the 2016 Nuclear Industry Summit (NIS 2016), was an industry conference on nuclear security, which took place in Washington, D.C. between Wednesday, March 30 and...
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