Berlin, May 23, 2023 United Nations member states should use the occasions of the 2024 UN Summit of the Future and its 2023 Ministerial Meeting to adopt strong and effective multilateral measures to prevent war, eliminate nuclear weapons, build human security and protect our global ecosystems for the benefit of
Youth-led initiative focuses on protecting human rights of current and future generations The UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution yesterday (March 29) requesting the International Court of Justice to render an Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change. The resolution was initiated by Pacific
On January 24, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 90 Seconds to Midnight. This is even closer than last year to a possible global catastrophe from nuclear war, climate collapse or other existential threat to current and future generations. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Joint message of World Future Council members and Right Livelihood Laureates to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). “Planet Earth is facing existential threats from human impact on the land, sea and air – on its ecological systems and its many forms of life, but there are effective
Yesterday (October 12) the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbor. 143 countries out of the 193-member General
Summit of the Future to be held in September 2024 / UN also establishes a Youth Office In two resolutions adopted on September 8, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a Youth Office and decided to hold a Summit of the Future in September 2024. Both resolutions
Can new actions/initiatives come from the NPT deliberations? On Friday (August 26), after four weeks of deliberations, the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded with no final agreement. A 35-page long draft final document prepared by the Review Conference President Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen had agreement of most,
Civil Society Open Letter to be presented to the NPT Review Conference today The 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opened on Monday August 1 with a stark warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “From the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula. To Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The
States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will meet in Vienna June 21-23, 2022 for their first meeting since the treaty entered into force in January 2021. This Meeting of States Parties (MSP) comes at a time of elevated nuclear threats/risks in Europe due to
The nuclear weapons policies of the UK and the Netherlands have been challenged in the UN Human Rights Council this week as being in violation of the Right to Life, a right enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The challenges have been