Iakwe nan kom aolep, My name is Selina Leem and I am from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands, located half-way between Hawai’i and Australia, encompasses a total of 34 islands and atoll and home to approximately 72,000 inhabitants. My country is currently active on the fields of climate change as many…
The Existential Threat of Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons: The Marshall Islands Experience and Action in the International Court Of Justice Tuesday,17 November 2015, 10.00-12.00 Main Meeting Room, Inter-Parliamentary Union,(IPU) Headquarters Organized by the World Future Council, the Basel Peace Office, and the Right-Livelihood Award Foundation Speakers: Selina Neirok Leem, Marshall Islands student at the…
Beatrice Fihn’s recent article (“A New Humanitarian Era: Prohibiting the Unacceptable,” July/August 2015) highlights the commitment by the signers of the “Humanitarian Pledge” to “pursue effective measures to fill the legal gap for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons.” Put forward by Austria in December 2014, the pledge is now supported by well more…
The decision that the interested circles, civil society, diplomats etc. had been waiting for was finally decided last week, and the outcome is very positive for Geneva – the main quarter of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and proud of its humanitarian tradition – and Switzerland more generally: Geneva will be the host of the permanent secretariat…
20 September 2015, 11 a.m., Kult Kino Atelier / Theaterpassage, Theaterstr. 7 / 4051 Basel, screening and panel in German Bester Spielfilm– Sundance Film Festival 2015 The Man Who Saved the World – Filmvorführung Sondervorführung zum Internationalen Tag für den Frieden (21. September) zu gedenken und der Internationale Tag zur vollständigen Beseitigung von Kernwaffen (26. September). In…
Please check here for the newsletter of IALANA (International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms), July 2015 (pdf). You can read there that the IALANA board meeting of 3rd May 2015 accepted our Assocation to be a national affiliate of their organization, that has consultative status (category II) with the UN ECOSOC. We look forward to this cooperation!
by Daniel Rietiker The events that suddenly changed not only the course of warfare, but also of human history, were the explosions of the first nuclear weapon in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945, followed by the subsequent bombings by the USA of Hiroshima, on 6 August 1945, and Nagasaki three…
AVOCATS SUISSES POUR LE DÉSARMEMENT NUCLÉAIRE (ASDN) SCHWEIZER ANWÄLTE FÜR NUKLEARE ABRÜSTUNG (SAFNA) invite to their first: ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT SEMINAR Swiss Institute for Comparative Law (Dorigny, CH-1015 Lausanne) Friday, 26 June 2015, 14.00 – 16.30 The Marshall Islands cases against the Nuclear Weapons States pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Featuring:…
Introduction by Daniel Rietiker The 2015 NPT Review Conference has ended in a failure on 22 May. No final document could be agreed upon by consensus. One of the major reasons was the lack of agreement on a possible conference (conference only!) on the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East, a question…
Before and during the NPT Review Conference in NewYork (April/May 2015), a smart, truly global campaign against nuclear weapons has been conducted, involving a lot of young people and school children. Please click here for more information. This article was prepared by Alyn Ware, Basel Peace Office, internationally recognized and awarded consultant for arms control…
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