On January 24, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 90 Seconds to Midnight. This is even closer than last year to a possible global catastrophe from nuclear war, climate collapse or other existential threat to current and future generations. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Joint message of World Future Council members and Right Livelihood Laureates to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). “Planet Earth is facing existential threats from human impact on the land, sea and air – on its ecological systems and its many forms of life, but there are effective
Yesterday (October 12) the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbor. 143 countries out of the 193-member General
Summit of the Future to be held in September 2024 / UN also establishes a Youth Office In two resolutions adopted on September 8, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a Youth Office and decided to hold a Summit of the Future in September 2024. Both resolutions
Can new actions/initiatives come from the NPT deliberations? On Friday (August 26), after four weeks of deliberations, the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded with no final agreement. A 35-page long draft final document prepared by the Review Conference President Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen had agreement of most,
Civil Society Open Letter to be presented to the NPT Review Conference today The 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opened on Monday August 1 with a stark warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “From the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula. To Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The
States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will meet in Vienna June 21-23, 2022 for their first meeting since the treaty entered into force in January 2021. This Meeting of States Parties (MSP) comes at a time of elevated nuclear threats/risks in Europe due to
The nuclear weapons policies of the UK and the Netherlands have been challenged in the UN Human Rights Council this week as being in violation of the Right to Life, a right enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The challenges have been
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, yesterday ordered Russia to immediately halt its military operations in Ukraine, and announced that the ICJ order to do so is legally binding. (See ICJ press release and World Court orders Russia to halt military operations
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and additional provocative moves by President Putin, have made the “prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, now back within the realm of possibility” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement on March 14 on the war in Ukraine. “Raising the alert of Russian