Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy has for years worked closely within the United Nations system. LCNP serves as the UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), which holds special consultative status as a non-governmental organization with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
LCNP annually monitors the UN First Committee, and you can find links to our prepared remarks, in writing and video, delivered to the Committee below. We monitor the Security Council and engage with Council representatives directly on nuclear security and disarmament issues through our membership in the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. In addition, LCNP regularly makes submissions to human rights bodies within the United Nations, including the Human Rights Council and Human Rights Committee. You may find our work in this realm both below and under our Nuclear Policy - Human Rights page. Finally, LCNP also advocates in the NPT and TPNW forums. More information on these treaties is available under the Nuclear Policy - TPNW/NPT pages.
LCNP Civil Society Submission to the United Nations Regarding a “New Agenda for Peace,” January 2023
Statement to the UN First Committee: The Imperative of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons, October 13, 2022
France, Nuclear Weapons Policy, and the Right to Life, May 5, 2021
Statement to the UN First Committee: Nuclear weapons and the legal norms of non-use and abolition, October 13, 2020
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Danielle Samler, Reaching Critical Will, March 6, 2020
The Right to Life Versus Nuclear Weapons: A Bold Intervention by the UN Human Rights Committee, December 10, 2018, Bahá’í UN Office, New York City. Sponsored by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice, CUNY School of Law
Creating the Conditions for International Peace and Human Security (CCIPHS), Jacqueline Cabasso on behalf of Western States Legal Foundation and LCNP, First Committee, UN General Assembly, October 17, 2018
Revitalizing multilateral negotiations: an alternative approach, Reaching Critical Will and LCNP, July 2011