The Trump Administration recently asked the military to assess how quickly nuclear weapons could be retrieved from storage and attached to delivery vehicles if New START is allowed to expire in February.
Read MoreRecent developments in human rights law can support civil society nuclear disarmament campaigns and help ignite change, according to three legal experts presenting in a workshop of A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World.
Read MoreWe write to urge policies that we believe your administration should adopt in relation to nuclear weapons, assuming that you are elected President. Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy since 1981 has advocated for non-use and global elimination of nuclear weapons in accordance with international law.
Read MoreMassive US spending on the military and nuclear weapons is both a misdirection of resources and a subversion of values necessary for a just society.
Read MoreToday, three-dozen nuclear watchdog organizations sent an urgent message to Congress declaring resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States “absolutely unacceptable” and “dangerously destabilizing.”
Read MoreUnder the ICCPR, Article 4, the right to life is non-derogable, to be observed in all circumstances, even in the event of a “public emergency which threatens the life of the nation.”
Read MoreOn 26 February 2020, the UN Security Council met to discuss the upcoming Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, which will be held during the treaty’s fiftieth anniversary year.
Read MoreI was born in Vienna, Austria, on December 8, 1925 and I owe the imaginative title of this talk, “I was 20 in 1945,” to Ramu Damodaran.
Read MoreThe threat or use of weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, which are indiscriminate in effect and are of a nature to cause destruction of human life on a catastrophic scale, is incompatible with respect for the right to life and may amount to a crime under international law.
Read MoreOn October 24, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted General Comment 36 on the Right to Life, a right codified in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Read MoreOn 30 October 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Committee adopted a General Comment on the right to life set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreDecember 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.
Read MoreWe write on behalf of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) to express our deep concern over developments which would have grave adverse consequences for efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities.
Read MoreA recent development could have grave adverse consequences for efforts to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities.
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