AIDD's working-paper on 'How the TPNW can build confidence and strengthen security assurances for disarmament and regional security without nuclear weapons', published by the UN during the Third Meeting of TPNW States Parties in New York, March 3 - 7, 2025,...
AIDD working paper for TPNW on Practical steps to prevent and disarm nuclear weapons use, published by the UN during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW, November 2023, as TPNW/MSP/2023/NGO/13...
AIDD's 2022 working paper on 'Ways to strengthen international security and pursue nuclear disarmament using the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons' AIDD Acronym Inst WP on TPNW role in preventing nuclear use NGO.WP.33 June 2022
Analysis published in March 2022 of the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Looks at the implications for the UK as a nuclear-armed state as the TPNW has entered into international legal force and is going to hold its first Meeting of States...
What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse to join the talks? by Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy Although most nuclear-armed governments have made a point of publicly endorsing the goal...
Ignoring protests from the US, UK and some NATO countries, two-thirds of UN member states appear determined to conclude a nuclear ban treaty this year. by Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy Ground-breaking talks at the United Nations – negotiating a treaty to ban...
By Dr Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy UN negotiations start today in New York on a global treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. Ignoring cross-party commitments to multilateral nuclear disarmament, Theresa May's Government will be absent. Five months ago, on 27...
Today, ICAN UK sent a letter on behalf of 34 NGOs to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, emphasising our disappointment with the UK government’s current position on the ban treaty negotiations starting at the UN in New York next...
via Pressenza 75% of UK adults think the British Government should be represented at nuclear disarmament talks due to begin at the United Nations next week. Only 9% said the Government should not attend and 16% were undecided. The opinion poll was conducted in the...