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
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, yesterday ordered Russia to immediately halt its military operations in Ukraine, and announced that the ICJ order to do so is legally binding. (See ICJ press release and World Court orders Russia to halt military operations
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and additional provocative moves by President Putin, have made the “prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, now back within the realm of possibility” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement on March 14 on the war in Ukraine. “Raising the alert of Russian
In Open Letter to the States Parties to the NPT, over 1000 civil society leaders call for no-first-use and timebound commitement to global abolition An Open Letter urging nuclear weapons states to adopt no-first-use and other policies to ensure a nuclear war is never fought was delivered today to leaders
On October 28, UNFOLD ZERO joins with a number of other organizations/initiatives in an event The UN and the Climate – Nuclear Disarmament Nexus. The event will explore the connections between the climate and nuclear disarmament issues, and build cooperation between movements and campaigns pushing for progress at the UN
Young climate activists Nicole Ponce and Marie-Claire Graf, speaking at the UN High Level Meeting on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons today (by pre-recorded video statement), called on UN Members to act now to address climate change and nuclear weapons, the two most pressing existential threats to current and future
The President of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Abdulla Shahid, has invited two young climate activists to address a UN High Level Meeting on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons which will be held on September 28. More than 80 governments will participate in the hybrid event, most of them represented
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly opened on September 14, with the General Debate to run from Sep 21 until Sep 28. This is the time that world leaders address the United Nations putting forward their priorities for UN action on key international issues. During this week and
At their Summit Meeting in Geneva on June 16, President’s Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin adopted a U.S.-Russia Presidential Joint Statement on Strategic Stability in which they reaffirmed ‘the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought’ and announced that they will embark together on
June 15, 2021. In an Open Letter to US President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent prior to their June 16 Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the two leaders are urged to use the opportunity of their meeting to reduce tensions between the two countries and lower the risks