Teresa de Fortuny, Xavier Bohigas - 27/09/2023
Only their complete elimination will prevent this danger Last August marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Civil society was horrified to learn of the consequences of using these weapons. However, it was not until 2017 that the United Nations General Assembly approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons...
- 19/07/2021
Summary This paper maps and analyses the national reviews of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) conducted by Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. These reviews differ in length, depth and purpose, but present a wide range of important arguments from both legal and policy perspectives. The focus is on three...
- 26/10/2020
The big moment has finally arrived: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has just reached the 50 ratifications required for its entry into force! This past October 24th, Honduras ratified the treaty, just one day after Jamaica and Nauru presented their ratifications, meaning a historic milestone for the pacifist movement all over the world. In 90...
- 16/10/2020
On 14 October 2020, the European Union and Cuba held the second sessions of their political dialogues on illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and other conventional weapons, as well as on disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Discussions included exchanges of views on recent developments in the area of arms control, illicit trafficking of small...
- 21/09/2020
The Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau, as a member of ICAN, welcomes the letter in which former political leaders such as Javier Solana or Ana Palacio request the signing of the International Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons also by countries that support in any way nuclear power contries. The Spanish coalition government must fulfill its commitment to...
- 03/09/2020
'Hibakusha' is the Japanese term used for the survivors of the atomic bombs that devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945, where 100,000 people died immediately after the explosion and a further 60,000 were mortally wounded. This year, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombs’ dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
- 22/07/2020
The Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau, as an active member of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), is joins the series of actions organized for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the launch of the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We continue to work alongside ICAN campaign for the...
- 17/07/2020
From Centre Delàs, as a committed entity to the peace culture, the disarm and the historical memory, we join to the different commemorative initiatives promoted by Peace Wave because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs 75th anniversary. We share the values of this campaign and we want to report the aftermaths of this key moment of the history in...