Arms
Trade Treaty Preparatory Committee
Governments met at the United Nations in New York from
14–18 June 2010 to make "recommendations on the
elements that would be needed to attain an effective and balanced
legally-binding instrument on the highest possible common
international standards for the transfer of conventional arms."
Follow the action with a joint
RCW-Oxfam-Global Action to Prevent War blog and find other
documents and information on RCW's ATT
PrepCom page.
Conference
on Disarmament 2010
The CD began the second part of its 2010 session in Geneva
on 3 June. RCW is posting all statements,
papers,
and press
releases from the Conference and will cover all plenary
meetings with the CD
Report - subscribe now!
Beyond
arms control: challenges and choices for
nuclear disarmament
Reaching Critical Will's new publication is now available
online and in hardcopy for purchase! A collaborative publicaton
written by 25 non-governmental activists and scholars, the
book looks critically at the challenges and options for disarmament
at the 2010 NPT Review Conference and beyond.
Recent
Writing, Speaking, and Analysis from RCW
• “Nuclear
reification and prospects for disarmament,” UNSG
Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 26 February 2010
• “Reaching
Critical Will for Disarmament,” Stockholm, 8 November
2009
• “Accomplishments
and remaining tasks: Lessons from the NPT’s 13 Steps
and the Blix Commission,” Stockholm, 8 November
2009
Critical
Issues
Background information and up-to-date news on a wide variety
of disarmament-related topics, including:
• Gender
and Disarmament;
• Iran
and North
Korea’s nuclear programmes;
• outer
space security and missile
defence (and the PAROS
Working Group);
• military
spending and Article
26 of the UN Charter; and
• much
more.
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- Reaching Critical Will is looking for a research intern in Geneva for the autumn. More information is available here.
- ICAN has released a report, NPT
Review Conference 2010: Towards Nuclear Abolition,
which documents the growing support among governments for
a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
- The 2010 NPT Review Conference Final
Document has officially been released and is available
on the RCW site.
- New RCW publication now available!
Beyond arms control: challenges and choices for nuclear
disarmament, a collaborative publicaton written
by 25 non-governmental activists and scholars, looks critically
at the challenges and options for disarmament at the 2010
NPT Review Conference and beyond.
- See WILPF's updated You Get What You Pay For brochure,
which compares military spending with the funds needed for
gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals. Available
for download in PDF.
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