SUNDAY, JUNE 17: Northampton Friends Meeting (Quakers) today became the first faith community in the country to declare their compliance with the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (or Nuclear Ban Treaty). The Nuclear Ban Treaty, adopted by 122 nations at the United Nations last year, comprehensively prohibits, under international law, the development,…
JUNE 20: The Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a call to all its members “to take all actions such as might be effective in requiring full US compliance with the obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest…
MONDAY, 11 June: At a press conference in Singapore this morning, ahead of the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), unveiled a 5-Step ‘Roadmap’ for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “Our roadmap answers the question at the heart of…
The issue of nuclear weapons is deeply connected to issues of imperialism, racial and gender inequality, and environmental justice. Part of what makes the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons a game changer is its emphasis on the humanitarian consequences of these weapons. This humanitarian focus has helped elucidate the connections between nuclear…
