Reductions in nuclear weapons are not the same as nuclear disarmament By Xanthe Hall, 19.5.2015, http://peaceandhealthblog.com On the plane over here, I read an essay in the Financial Times in which the author asks whether there is such a thing as an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy. The criticism of the US President is that he …
NPT Review Conference: All that glitters is not gold Weiterlesen »
Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, to the diplomatic community in Geneva. This year is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – events that have left an indelible mark on humanity’s conscience and consciousness. I was in Hiroshima last week. I visited the Peace Memorial Museums and …
Der Konflikt in der Ukraine werde sowohl von Russland als auch von den USA genutzt, um eine Modernisierung der eigenen Atomwaffenarsenale zu rechtfertigen, schreibt Julio Godoy…. lesenswerter Artikel auf www.eurasiareview.co
9 December 2014, Vienna I am speaking on behalf of the International Campaign toAbolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of over 360 organisations in more than 90countries. We are a global campaign determined to achieve the prohibition andelimination of nuclear weapons. We organised the weekend forum for over 600people on the courage to ban nuclear weapons. …
December 7, 2014 www.icanw.org This weekend, more than 600 campaigners gathered in Vienna in the largest ever civil society meeting on the abolition of nuclear weapons. The campaigners came from over 70 countries, representing more than 100 different organisations. The Civil Society Forum took place directly before the third international Conference on the Humanitarian Impact …
ICAN Civil Society Forum: “We are the ones we have been waiting for” Weiterlesen »
Astana Declaration IPPNW 21st World Congress 30 August 2014 For more than 50 years, physicians concerned with the medical, environmental and humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons have documented the extreme and unacceptable consequences of their use. The evidence accumulated over the decades since the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has convinced us that …
Der 21. IPPNW Weltkongress ging letzte Woche zu Ende. Weiterlesen »
published in CNN by Ira Helfand, Alan Robock On Wednesday, President Obama took a meaningful step toward reshaping our nuclear arsenal in line with the reality of 21st-century security priorities. Standing at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, he announced that he would seek negotiated cuts with Russia of up to one-third of strategic nuclear weapons …
Obama will weniger Atomwaffen – aber: ist „weniger“ genug? Weiterlesen »
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Seit Februar 2013 ist es in der Schweiz verboten, Geld in Atomwaffenfirmen zu investieren. Ein lobenswertes Gesetz. Mit der Umsetzung hapert es allerdings,weil die Banken weiterhin Zulieferfirmen finanzieren dürfen. Von Susan Boos Für einmal ist die Schweiz schneller als die andern Länder: Sie hatverboten, den Bau von Atombomben direkt oder indirekt mitzufinanzieren. Sosteht es im revidierten …
WOZ Nr. 23/2013 vom 06.06.2013. Hände weg vom Geschäften mit Atomwaffen Weiterlesen »
Noch im Herbst 2012 sprach PSR / IPPNW Schweiz bei der UBS und Credit Suisse vor um ihre Beteiligungen an Atomwaffenfirmen, die im Bericht „dont‘ bank on the bomb“ von ICAN aufgedeckt wurden, zu diskutieren. Der Bericht der ICAN (die International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons von IPPNW) listete damals über 300 Finanzinstitute in über …
Vom neuen Kriegsmaterialgesetz sind auch Schweizer Banken betroffen. Weiterlesen »
Many of us are scared about the heightened tension in the conflict on the Korean peninsula. A way to deal with that fear is to act. We invite you to join us in calling on the heads of states party to the Six-Nation-Initiative – the USA, North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia and Japan – …
Prevent a nuclear catastrophe: Back to the negotiating table! Weiterlesen »
