UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will end his 10-year term in December 2016. The campaign for the next UN Secretary-General has begun, and this campaign will be like none other before. It’s quite possible that a woman will become UN Secretary-General for the first time in the history of the
Nobel peace laureates meeting in Barcelona for their 15th World Summit on 13-15 November 2015, adopted the Barcelona Declaration in which they: oppose terrorism and war, support refugees from conflict regions; call on governments to implement the Sustainable Development Goals; propose a 10% reduction in military budgets to pay for
On January 24, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus its very first resolution, Resolution 1 (I): which established a commission of the UN Security Council to ensure: the ‘control of atomic energy to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes,’ and ‘the elimination from national armaments of
The First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which focuses on Disarmament and International Security, yesterday adopted a number of resolutions including one that establishes an Open Ended Working Group to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations (resolution also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish). The Open
Starting on Monday November 2, and running for the whole week, the United Nations General Assembly in New York will vote on a number of draft resolutions on nuclear disarmament. Many of these are repeat resolutions from previous years – and countries will likely vote for them the same way
“A world without nuclear weapons is essential for the accomplishment of the priority objectives of humanity, those being peace, security and development” said the member States of OPANAL in a statement released on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. OPANAL was established in 1968 by the
September 29, 2015 Leaders of the major religious faiths and interfaith networks, joined forces with parliamentarians and mayors from around the world to call on world leaders to “commit to nuclear abolition and to replace nuclear deterrence with shared security approaches to conflicts.” The call was made in a joint
The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the first and last use of a nuclear weapon in war. The norm against the use of nuclear weapons – the most destructive weapons ever created, with potentially unparalleled human costs – has stood strong for seven decades. But the only absolute
Leaders of nuclear-armed States should use the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons to commence a process for the controlled elimination of nuclear weapons, says UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft, in a video interview with UNFOLD ZERO. Lykketoft, a former Foreign Minister of Denmark and a
Member countries of the United Nations will meet for a month this October at the UN General Assembly First Committee to discuss and adopt resolutions on disarmament and international security issues. One initiative they will likely discuss is the proposal to establish a UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) to