Below is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September, 2020. Note that the UN General Assembly will hold a High Level Event on October 2, 2020 to commemorate the day. Civil society organised a number of events on September 26
A global online civil society commemoration of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (UN Nuclear Abolition Day). This event on September 26 will include presentations, video messages, workshops, poetry and music. It is organised by #WeThePeoples2020, an initiative of over 100 participating organizations which promotes the
September 26 is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. #WeThePeoples2020 is hosting a global civil society event to commemorate the day. The UN General Assembly will hold a High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on Oct 2. UNFOLD ZERO encourages parliamentarians, mayors,
By Marzhan Nurzhan, Abolition 2000 Youth Network Convener, Outreach/Education Coordinator of the CTBTO Youth Group, 2019 UNODA-OSCE Scholar for Peace and Security 29 August is a symbolic day which marks simultaneously the first Soviet nuclear test in the Semipalatinsk (Semey) test site, which is located in Kazakhstan, in 1949 and
I am honoured to greet the Peace Memorial Ceremony and to pay tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Seventy-five years ago, a single nuclear weapon visited unspeakable death and destruction upon this city. The effects linger to this day. This city and its people, however, have
By Alyn Ware* This Thursday, July 9, is the 65th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, a ground-breaking event that gave rise to the establishment of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in 1957 (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995) and the World Academy of Arts and Science
On June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was adopted with the principle aim to ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.’ The Charter requires member states to resolve their conflicts peacefully (Article 2.3), prohibits the threat or use of force in international relations (Article 2.4), provides a range of
In April 2020, the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs released a publication Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending which critiques the massive and growing global military budget (now at $1.9 trillion per year), examines the negative impact of such high militarization on security, explores opportunity benefits of reduced military budgets including
On 24 May 2018 (International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched Securing Our Common Future: A Disarmament Agenda, which outlines a set of practical measures across the entire range of disarmament issues, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional arms and future weapon technologies. In
The United Nations General Assembly decided in 2018 to establish an International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace to be held annually on April 24. (Click here for the UNGA resolution). Although not as well-known as Earth Day (April 22), the day is very important in promoting international peace