Building Political Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty in Congress and at state and local levels Zoom event: Saturday, April 24, 2021 10:30am-12:45 EDT Click here for Registration Click here for Speaker bios Click here for list of Co-sponsors Click here for list of break-out rooms Program 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Global Support for the…
The Board of NuclearBan.US is very happy to announce the appointment of Asha Asokan as the new Director of NuclearBan.US. Asha holds a Bachelor’s in Law (LLB) from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law (LLM) from CUSAT, India. She worked for Nonviolent Peaceforce, implementing civilian protection and peacebuilding projects…
THIS SATURDAY, March 27, 2021 11am-1pm on zoom Please join State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, State Senator Jo Comerford and other members of the Massachusetts state legislature, who will be talking about their peace and nuclear weapons bills and how you can support them! To register and for more information, click here
To see video of this webinar, click here The Nuclear Ban Treaty enters into force on January 22, 2021 in the first 50 countries that have ratified it. Another 34 countries are in the process of ratification, and many more will follow. What will this mean for the US, which has not ratified this Treaty…
published in Pressenza, Nov 19, 2020: Outlawing Everything To Do With Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) outlaws the use of nuclear weapons. But that is not what makes this treaty so important. Indeed, many would argue that any conceivable use of nuclear weapons would inevitably violate the fundamental principles of…
The historic United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is nearing entry into force as international law. The response of the Trump administration, according to a new report by the Associated Press, is a letter to the countries that have already ratified the treaty, asking them to withdraw. Such interference in a United Nations disarmament treaty…
Congratulations to Malta, the 45th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons! Only five more ratifications to go before the Treaty has the requisite number of 50 to “enter into force” as binding international law. Already there are more than 40 countries in the process of ratifying the treaty, so the…
September 21, 2020: More than fifty former world leaders have signed a letter released today, in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or Nuclear Ban Treaty. The former leaders and ministers, from 22 NATO members as well as from Japan and South Korea, state that their countries, by claiming protection from…
Friday, August 14th – 10:30am Eastern time Interfaith Communities, Pasadena, CA Join videoconference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84688503371 Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson describe their report, Warheads to Windmills, in the context of COVID Tuesday, August 18th – 7pm Eastern time North Carolina Peace Action To join this webinar, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4443094005
(Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz shows his executive order divesting Northampton city funds from nuclear weapons companies to Northampton activist Frances Crowe, who died in August 2019.) PHOTO: LYDIA WOOD Boycotting and divesting from nuclear weapons By TIMMON WALLIS and VICKI ELSON Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass, August 3, 2020, pp B1-B2. We are…