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Desarmamento nuclear, sempre em fase de teste
por Thalif Deen
Nações Unidas (IPS) – O clarão branco que, no dia 28 de fevereiro de 1954, o teste nuclear, conhecido como Castle Bravo, gerou no atol de Bikini, ficou gravado a fogo na memória de Tony de Brum. O atual ministro das Relações Exteriores das Ilhas Marshal, no Oceano Pacífico, tinha na época nove anos.
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‘Their Weapons Possess Them’
Nuclear Abolition News | IDN
By XANTHE HALL*
“Possession does not prevent international disputes from occurring, but it makes conflicts more dangerous. Maintaining forces on alert does not provide safety, but it increases the likelihood of accidents. Upholding doctrines of nuclear deterrence does not counter proliferation, but it makes the weapons more desirable.” – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
BERLIN | VIENNA (IDN) – Nearly a thousand people crammed into the conference hall in the majestic Hofburg in Vienna for two full days of discussions on the unspeakable and unimaginable theme – the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. This was the third in a series of state-sponsored conferences taking place outside of the UN, the first two having taken place in Norway and Mexico. [P] ARABIC | HINDI | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PERSIAN | SPANISH | SWEDISH | URDU
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Survivors Aspire For A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Abolition News | IDN
By NEENA BHANDARI*
SYDNEY (IDN) – Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a Kokatha-Mula Indigenous woman, was about three years old when the United Kingdom began conducting Nuclear weapons tests in Australia’s Monte Bello Islands, off the Western Australian coast, and Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia. [P] ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | SPANISH
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Faiths United Against Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By JULIA RAINER
– “Never was there a greater need than now for all the religions to combine, to pull their wisdom and to give the benefit of that combined, huge repository of wisdom to international law and to the world.”
The words are those of Christopher Weeramantry, former judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and its vice-president from 1997 to 2000, who was addressing a session on faiths united against nuclear weapons at the civil society forum organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on Dec. 6 and 7 in the Austrian capital. [P] BAHASA | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | TURKISH
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Nuclear States Face Barrage of Criticism in Vienna
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By JAMSHED BARUAH
– Sarcastic laughter erupted when a civil society representative expressed his “admiration for the delegate of the United States, who with one insensitive, ill-timed, inappropriate and diplomatically inept intervention” had “managed to dispel the considerable goodwill the U.S. had garnered by its decision to participate” in Vienna Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. [P] BAHASA | GERMAN | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | TURKISH
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U.N. Urged to Ban Nuke Strikes Against Cities
ROGER HAMILTON-MARTIN
– Civil society groups are urging the U.N. General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring nuclear strikes on cities to be a clear-cut violation of international humanitarian law. [P] BAHASA | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH
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Civil Society Support for Marshall Islands Against Nukes
Nuclear Abolition News | IPS
By JULIA RAINER
– Ahead of the Dec. 8-9 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, activists from all over the world came together in the Austrian capital to participate in a civil society forum organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on Dec. 6 and 7. [P] BAHASA | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | TURKISH
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Why Nuclear Disarmament Could Still Be the Most Important Thing There Is – Japanese
｜視点｜なぜ核軍縮が依然としてもっとも重要な問題なのか
フィンランドの環境活動家で、小説が数か国語に翻訳されているTähtivaeltaja賞受賞作家のリスト・イソマキ氏はこのコラムで、世界中に現存する核施設に備わっている、実際には想像を超える破壊能力について述べ、核技術を元のパンドラの箱に戻すという不可能に挑戦すべきだと論じている。
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Nuclear-Weapon Free Northeast Asia Is Possible
Nuclear Abolition News | IDN
By JAMSHED BARUAH
GENEVA (IDN) – While existing tensions in Northeast Asia continue to be a source of concern and urgent action is required to diffuse these and bring about meaningful cooperation, a nuclear-weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the region is possible and should in fact be a priority, according to an international conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on November 26. [P] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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