In the coming days, the Israeli government will have to make decisions on membership in the Chemical Weapons Convention and participation in two potentially ground-breaking conferences: The Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons and the Helsinki Conference on a Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East. In all […]
The fate of the victims in the Colombian mining region must be acknowledged and a regional reconciliation process must be initiated. It would help if energy companies, as coal clients, actively encouraged this. These were the words of Minister Ploumen of Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade last week during a closed conference on coal in The Hague, which mining company Drummond also attended.
In a letter sent to US Secretary of Defense Hagel, US Congressman Jim McDermott, has asked the Pentagon to release all available information on its use of depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq. The pressure to be transparent about the use of this chemical toxic and radioactive material used in ammunition is growing.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is among more than 70 religious leaders, representatives and faith based organisations that have signed the interreligious declaration calling on states to work towards a global ban on fully autonomous weapons.
PAX – a co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign, is working towards a ban on autonomous weapons without meaningful control. Last week we were in New York at the United Nations, were this issue was discussed at the First Committee. At a well attended side event at the UN, I had the privilege to […]
Global financial institutions made an estimated 402 billion US dollars available to nuclear weapons producers. The report Don’t Bank on the Bomb, published today by PAX, identifies 411 banks, insurance companies and pension funds with investments in 28 companies involved in the production, maintenance or stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
South Sudan’s neighbours should urgently call for the United Nations Security Council to establish an arms embargo to stem gruesome violations in the country’s devastating conflict, more than 50 South Sudanese and international human rights and humanitarian organisations including PAX said in a petition to regional leaders. ‘The ongoing attacks on civilians are contributing to a humanitarian crisis.’
On the 31st of October, the UN First Committee voted on resolution A/C.1/69/L.43, Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium, which passed with 143 in favour, 4 against and 26 abstainers. Before and after the vote, several States provided an explanation of vote (EOV). In some of these EOVs, especially those […]
Every year explosive weapons, such as bombs, grenades and rockets, on towns and villages, kill and wound large numbers of civilians, among them many children. Most recently explosive weapons have caused immense suffering and devastation in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine. Today, PAX will present Unacceptable Risk in New York, on the margins of the annual […]
Every year explosive weapons, such as bombs, grenades and rockets, on towns and villages, kill and wound large numbers of civilians, among them many children. Most recently explosive weapons have caused immense suffering and devastation in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine. In its report Unacceptable Risk, PAX urges states to refrain from using such heavy explosive weapons in populated areas.
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