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The Russian invasion of Ukraine, coupled with the much-derided Group of Seven summit in May, cast a long shadow over an international symposium on the abolition of nuclear weapons held in Hiroshima on July 29.
Applications are now being accepted to receive the URL address for English livestreaming of an international symposium on the abolition of nuclear weapons jointly sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun, the Hiroshima city government and the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
Elayne G. Whyte is the former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica and was the first woman, and the first person of African descent, to hold this office. She was the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations and she was President of the UN Conference involving 124 states that negotiated and adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in 2021. She has served in leadership positions in security and disarmament treaty-regimes and has led several global negotiation processes to fill legal or cooperation gaps in t...
Post on 11 February 2021 by Anne Marie Steiger February 11, 2021 Kaitlin Emmons, Margarita Kalinina-Pohl, Nomsa Ndongwe In observance of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science globally celebrated on February 11, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that “advancing gender equality in science and technology is essential for building a better future.” The UN Secretary-General’s view is one shared by CNS, whose latest event, a course for nearly 80 female professionals from 23 countries across Africa, aimed to advance women in STEM through WMD nonproliferation ...
People hold letters reading #NUCLEARBAN in New York City, in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which took effect on Friday. Credit: LightRocket via Getty Images U.N. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Takes Effect, Without The U.S. And Others By at 8:14 am NPR A U.N. treaty outlawing nuclear weapons went into effect on Friday, having been ratified by at least 50 countries. But the ban is largely symbolic: The U.S. and the world's other nuclear powers have not signed the treaty. "For the first time in history, nuclear weapons are going ...