Human Rights, Democracy, and Nuclear Weapons, NPT PrepCom Side-Event

NPT PrepCom Side-Event

Human Rights, Democracy, and Nuclear Weapons

Wednesday,
May 1, 2019 1:15 – 2:45 pm
Conference Room C, United Nations, New York
Sponsored by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy

with

Daniel Rietiker, Lecturer on Public International Law, University of Lausanne and Suffolk University Law School; President, Swiss Lawyers for Nuclear Disarmament (Read remarks)

Bonnie Docherty, Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection and a Lecturer on Law at the International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School (Read remarks)

Andrew Lichterman, Senior Research Analyst, Western States Legal Foundation (Read remarks)

Moderator: John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy

In October 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee found that the threat or use of nuclear arms is incompatible with the right to life set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons invokes international human rights law and provides for assistance to victims of nuclear weapons testing and use. Speakers will examine these developments, and address more broadly the place of human rights in international law, the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict, and the role of social movements.