Essay: How to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Sign the nuclear weapons treaty
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, on the need for the ongoing push to ban nuclear weapons…
Essay: New START buys time on nukes. Now let’s start banning them altogether
DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says extending the expiring 2011 nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States is a step in the right direction towards a world free of nuclear weapons…
World Council of Churches welcomes news of nuclear treaty ratification
The World Council of Churches has welcomed news that a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons will come into force on 22nd January. The move comes after Honduras became the 50th state to ratify the treaty – which would establish a comprehensive ban on the development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and threat of use of […]
Progress toward a nuclear free world “stalled”, says senior UN official
Progress toward a nuclear free world have “stalled” the top UN disarmament official said on Monday, the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Speaking at a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN’s high representative for disarmament affairs, said that what happened at Hiroshima […]
World Council of Churches welcomes opening of treaty banning nuclear weapons to signatures
The World Council of Churches has welcomed the formal opening of a treaty to ban nuclear weapons for countries to sign and expressed thanksgiving for the 50 states which have already done so. The historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was formally opened for signatures on 20th September. Among the 50 countries which […]
Churches’ body hails treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons as an “historic achievement”
In what churches have hailed as an “historic achievement”, more than 120 of the world’s governments have adopted a treaty which declares nuclear weapons illegal. Some 122 governments agreed to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last Friday despite a boycott by the nine countries with nuclear weapons and other nations during […]