In a speech given to the diplomatic community in Geneva, 28 February 2015, Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, reiterated the organization’s call for the prohibition and elimination of these weapons through a legally binding agreement: “The ICRC believes that reducing the risk of nuclear-weapon use and ensuring their elimination through a legally binding international agreement…

[Maya Brehm, Member of the scientific committee of SAFNA] Last Tuesday (13 January 2015), the Bordeaux administrative court of appeals recognized the right to compensation of nine victims of French nuclear weapons tests. The court rejected eight other claims for compensation. The legal basis for these claims is the ‘Loi Morin’ of 5 January 2008. The law…

In our previous post on the Vienna Conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, we compared the ongoing process focusing on the disastrous effects of nuclear weapons on the human being and its natural environment with the Ottawa and Oslo Processes, which were both crowned by the successful conclusion of the respective international treaties…

Dear Reader, I attended the third Conference on the “Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons”, perfectly organized by the Austrian Government in the fantastic premisses of the Hofburg on 8 and 9 December 2014. For the results of the Conference and the progressive “pledge” of the Austrian Government, please click here. What are my personal ideas and conclusions of this Conference? On…

On 24 April 2014, the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands simultaneously filed in the Registry of the Court separate Applications against nine States (China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America) accusing…

Peace now – Atomwaffen abschaffen! Ein Engagement religiöser Gemeinschaften in Basel “Die Broschüre „Nukleare Abrüstung“ soll dabei Unterstützung sein.” Predigerkirche, Totentanz 19 am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2014 von 12.15 bis 13.30 Uhr! Für mehr Infos bitte hier klicken!

On 8 and 9 December, Austria is hosting the 3rd Conference on this topic. For more information, click here. One of the questions is whether the Nuclear Weapons States will be absent, as they have been during the Oslo and Nayarit (Mexico). For the time being, it is impossible to predict the outcome of the Conference. In any…