Events

Nuclear Weapons Convention: Exploring and Developing Elements of a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Tuesday 21 May, 2013
13:15 – 14:45
Room XI, Building A, UN Geneva

Side-event of Open Ended Working
Group on Nuclear Disarmament

Publication Launch: Moving Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Launch of the 2nd edition of the Nuclear Abolition Forum
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
12:30 – 14:00
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
WMO/OMM Building Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Geneva

Featuring:
Ambassador Urs Schmid (Switzerland)
Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe (Japan)
Jean-Marie Collin (PNND, France)
Marc Finaud (Program Adviser, GCSP)
Alyn Ware (Founder, Nuclear Abolition Forum, New Zealand)
Teresa Bergman (Researcher, Basel Peace Office)

Youth, Sports and Peace: Building bridges in conflicts through Sport

6pm, Friday May 24
University of Basel, Lecture Hall 001
Petersgraben, Basel

Featuring:
Wilson Kipketer, runner. Current world record holder for the 800 and 1000 meters (indoors).
Spokesperson for L’organisation pour la Paix par le Sport (Peace and Sport)
Paol Hansen, Special Adviser UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Carola Szemerey, Youth Future Project
Henk Van Nieuwenhove, Flanders Peace Field project (the 1914 Soccer Truce)

Basel Peace Office Opening Reception

Friday 16 November, 2012
6:00 PM

Aula Hall, Kollegienhaus
University of Basel

Symposium: The Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and the imperative for nuclear abolition

Saturday November 17, 2012
10:00 – 12:30

University of Basel
Hörsaal Room 115
(Cafeteria Block)

News

Nuclear Weapons Convention: Exploring and Developing Elements of a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Tuesday 21 May, 2013, 13:15 – 14:45
Room XI, Building A, UN Geneva
OEWG side-event

What issues need to be addressed to achieve and maintain a nuclear weapons free world? What are the benefits and opportunities of an incremental-comprehensive approach? What elements of a NWC can we start developing now?

Are you open to a nuclear-weapons-free world?

Join the Abolition 2000 Task Force on the UN Opened Ended Working Group!

Abolition 2000 invites you to engage in an exciting new process to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world. After 17 years of inaction at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, the United Nations has established an Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) to develop proposals for multilateral negotiations. Join the Abolition 2000 Task Force on the OEWG to promote a nuclear weapons convention - a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.

Parliamentarians instrumental to success of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Panel at the NPT Conference in Geneva on Engaging Legislators in Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons Free World

Geneva, May 3, 2013

Government delegates and non-governmental observers to the Conference of States Parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (the 2013 NPT Prep Com) in Geneva were reminded on Monday of the important role that parliamentarians have in the shared goal to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world. The reminder came from a joint panel of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Intre-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Washington congresswoman seeks support for Act on Nuclear Weapons Abolition

On April 18, 2013, Washington DC's Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced the HR-1650, the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act" which calls on the United States government to negotiate a multilateral treaty for the dismantlement and elimination of all nuclear weapons in every country by not later than 2020; and for strict and effective international control of such dismantlement and eliminatio

Abolition 2000 at Faslane: Get Rid of the Nukes!

A delegation from the Abolition 2000 Global Network for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons visited the Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, Scotland today (19 April 2013) where they released the Faslane Declaration, which calls on the UK to remove the nuclear weapons based in Scotland, abandon nuclear deterrence and join negotiations for global nuclear abolition.

Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World launched in Geneva

Government diplomats, UN officials, disarmament researchers, policy analysts, academics and representatives of non-governmental organisations attended the launch on 9 April of Moving Beyond Nuclear Deterrence to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World, the 2nd edition of the Nuclear Abolition Forum.

UK nuclear arsenal under question ahead of global abolition meeting in Scotland

UK Premier Cameron challenged by former Secretary of Defence and Scottish Parliament

With nuclear tensions rising in the Korean Peninsula, a referendum on Scottish independence looking in 2014, and less than two weeks until a global nuclear abolition meeting in Edinburgh, the issue of UK's nuclear arsenal which is based in Faslane, Scotland, has become a political hot potato for UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

Appeal to governments and the UN Secretary-General on a Middle East Zone Free from Nuclear Weapons and other WMD

The Window of opportunity is now! Act to promote The Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction! Sign today!

http://www.change.org/petitions/act-to-promote-the-middle-east-without-weapons-of-mass-destruction

Nuclear Weapons Free World - focus of 2014 assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from approximately 150 parliaments, meeting at the 128th Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Quito, Ecuador from Mar 22-27, agreed to the recommendation of the IPU Standing Committee on Peace and International Security for the topic "Towards a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World: The Contribution of Parliaments" to be a focus of the 130th IPU Assembly in 2014.

PNND to launch Spanish edition of Handbook at IPU Assembly, Quito

“This Handbook brings disarmament down to earth, offering specific guidance on why it matters and how to achieve it… I commend this volume not just to legislators, but to all who truly care about nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and – without exaggeration – the future of our planet.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, July 2012

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