By Dave Philipps, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2017 RICHLAND, Wash. — When Tim Snider arrived on Enewetak Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to clean up the fallout from dozens of nuclear tests on the ring of coral islands, Army officers immediately ordered him to put on a respirator and a bright…
A giant of the law, Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, died peacefully at his home in Sri Lanka on January 5, 2017. He was everything a lawyer could be: barrister, professor, judge. From 1967 to 1972 he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and then as a judge of the…
Only in 1953, when the USA and the USSR tested their hydrogen bombs, the world was a more dangerous one according to scientists! For the last two years, the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock stayed set at three minutes before the hour, the closest it had been to midnight since the early 1980s. In…
Very readable article published in Arms Control Today, January/February 2017
Nuclear disarmament is not dead yet and interesting times are ahead of us. The UN General Assembly adopted, on 27 October 2016, a landmark resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty banning nuclear weapons. This historic resolution might mark the end of two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts. At a…
By Daniel Rietiker The UN Human Rights Committee is currently drafting a new General Comment No. 36 on the right to life. Since the current draft does not entirely reflect the duties of the States Parties to the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Politicial Rights (ICCPR) with regards WMD, including nuclear weapons, Swiss Lawyers…
By Daniel Rietiker I was invited to represent Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmamaent (SLND/SAFNA) and IALANA at this conference in Astana (Kazakhstan). I was struck by the hospitality of the Kazakh hosts and their efforts deployend in order to offer ideal conditions for fruitful negotiations. Nuclear disarmament and the achievement of a nuclear-weapon-free world is…
Check this superbe article published in Arms Control Today (July/Sept 2016) by John Burroughs, executive director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, which is the UN office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. He is a member of the Marshall Islands’ international legal team in the cases currently pending before the…
Please read the interesting article by Maya Brehm, member of board of our association, in EJIL Talk 31 May 2016. She discusses the different options currently explored in the UN open-ended working group (OEWG) in Geneva.
Intervention made on behalf of IALANA at the Open-ending-working group on nuclear disarmament, Geneva, 10 May 2016 (without footnotes) Dr. Daniel Rietiker, PhD International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (SLND) I have the honour to make an intervention on behalf of IALANA – the International Association of Lawyers Against…
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