The participants in the international conference Human Rights, Future Generations and Crimes in the Nuclear Age, held in Basel from September 14-17, 2017, affirm that the risks and impacts of nuclear weapons, depleted uranium weapons and nuclear energy, which are both transnational and trans-generational, constitute a violation of human rights, a transgression of international humanitarian…

New Publication by Daniel Rietiker With endorsement by William J. Perry, US Secretary of Defense (1994-1997), and foreword by Olzhas Suleimeov, Kazakh poet, and leader of the “Nevada-Semipalatisnk” movement, thanks to which the former USSR pronounced a moratorium ono nuclear testing. Despite clear legal rules and political commitments, no significant progress has been made in…

Please find here information about the congress that Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (SLND, SAFNA) are co-organising.    

Kommersant, 15 February 2017 Россия в нарушение договора 1987 года разместила ракеты средней дальности в двух точках на своей территории, сообщил Reuters источник в администрации Дональда Трампа. Тем самым он подтвердил вышедшую днем ранее статью в The New York Times на ту же тему. Источник уточнил, что в последнее время «проблема стала намного серьезнее», так…

14 February 2017 XXV Regular Session of the General Ministerial Conference of OPANAL. Statement of Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross. Allow me to begin by thanking the Government of Mexico for inviting me to speak on this historic occasion. The adoption of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in…

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…

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…

 International Associaton of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) invites you to Nuclear Disarmament Public Debate In Association with: Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (SLND) Schweizer Anwälte für Nukleare Abrüstung (SAFNA) Programme Schedule:  Friday, 15th April 16:30 to 18:30 Swiss Institute of Com- parative Law, Lausanne- Dorigny (Campus of Lausanne University) Welcome: Daniel Rietiker (President SLND/SAFNA) Speakers:…

Presentation to the United Nations Open-ended Working Group on Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations Delivered by Dr Daniel Rietiker PhD President of the Association of Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (Swiss affiliate of IALANA) Your excellencies, I have the honour to make an intervention on behalf of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear…