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Australia’s ‘Quit Nukes’ Campaign Targets Superannuation Funds – MALAY

Kempen ‘Quit Nukes’ Australia Menyasarkan Dana Superanuasi

Oleh Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY (IDN) – Sebuah kempen baharu yang menggalakkan warga Australia untuk menggesa dana superanuasi mereka untuk mengeluarkan penghasil senjata nuklear daripada pelaburan mereka, sejajar dengan Perjanjian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu atas Larangan Senjata Nuklear (TPNW), yang telah diratifikasi oleh 33 buah negara dan memerlukan 17 lagi ratifikasi untuk membolehkan ia dikuatkuasakan di bawah undang-undang antarabangsa – 90 hari selepas instrumen ratifikasi yang kelima puluh.

How Nuclear False Warning Could Have Unleashed a Catastrophe

Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball

The writer is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. The following is the text of his article published in Arms Control Today.


Photo: Former Titan II Missile in its silo, Sahuarita, Arizona. Source: The Titan Missile Museum.

WASHINGTON (IDN) – Forty years ago, on November 9, the U.S. Defense Department detected an imminent nuclear attack against the United States through the early-warning system of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). U.S. bomber and missile forces went on full alert, and the emergency command post, known as the “doomsday plane,” took to the air. [2019-11-25]

Australia’s ‘Quit Nukes’ Campaign Targets Superannuation Funds

By Neena Bhandari


Photo (L-R): Quit Nukes Director Margaret Peril, Australian Ethical Acting CEO Steve Gibbs, ICAN Australia Director Gem Romuld. Source: Quit Nukes.

SYDNEY (IDN) – A new campaign is encouraging Australians to urge their superannuation funds to exclude nuclear weapons producers from their investments, consistent with the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which has been ratified by 33 states and needs additional 17 ratifications to become enforceable under international law – 90 days after the fiftieth instrument of ratification. [2019-11-22 | 22] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | MALAY | THAI

Australia’s ‘Quit Nukes’ Campaign Targets Superannuation Funds

By Neena Bhandari


Photo (L-R): Quit Nukes Director Margaret Peril, Australian Ethical Acting CEO Steve Gibbs, ICAN Australia Director Gem Romuld. Source: Quit Nukes.

SYDNEY (IDN) – A new campaign is encouraging Australians to urge their superannuation funds to exclude nuclear weapons producers from their investments, consistent with the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which has been ratified by 33 states and needs additional 17 ratifications to become enforceable under international law – 90 days after the fiftieth instrument of ratification. [2019-11-22 | 22] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | MALAY | THAI

Anxiety Looms Over the 10th NPT Review Conference Next Year – Chinese

焦虑笼罩着明年的第10届NPT审查会议

Sergio Duarte的观点

作者是帕格沃什会议主席,联合国裁军事务前高级代表。

纽约(IDN) – 联合国大会第一委员会第74届会议于去年10月在纽约开始,这届会议充满争议的开始预示着在即将举行的2020年核不扩散条约审查会议准备阶段以及致力于裁军的联合国多边机构所面临的困难。

由于对拒绝一些代表团成员的签证存在争议,委员会只能完成一般性辩论,在会议两周后通过其工作计划。相关国家的代表参与了具有对抗性的相互指责,一度迫使委员会面对无限期停止工作的前景。

Australia’s ‘Quit Nukes’ Campaign Targets Superannuation Funds – THAI

การรณรงค์ ‘Quit Nukes’ ของออสเตรเลียมีเป้าหมายที่กองทุนเงินเกษียณ

โดย Neena Bhandari

ซิดนีย์ (IDN) – การรณรงค์ใหม่กำลังกระตุ้นให้ชาวออสเตรเลียเรียกร้องกองทุนเงินเกษียณของพวกเขาให้ตัดผู้ผลิตอาวุธนิวเคลียร์ออกจากการลงทุนของตน ซึ่งสอดคล้องกับสนธิสัญญาของสหประชาชาติ (United Nations Treaty) เกี่ยวกับการห้ามใช้อาวุธนิวเคลียร์ (TPNW) ซึ่งมีการอนุมัติจากทั้ง 33 รัฐและจำเป็นต้องได้รับการอนุมัติจากอีก 17 รัฐเพื่อให้มีผลบังคับใช้ได้ภายใต้กฎหมายระหว่างประเทศ – 90 วันหลังการมอบสัตยาบันสารครั้งที่ห้าสิบ

Anxiety Looms Over the 10th NPT Review Conference Next Year

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

The writer is President of Pugwash. Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.


Image: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (Blue); Nuclear weapons states (Red); Nuclear sharing (Orange); Neither, but NPT (Lime green). CC BY-SA 3.0

NEW YORK (IDN) – The contentious start of the 74th Session of the First Committee of the General Assembly last October in New York was a harbinger of the difficulties to be faced in the run-up to the forthcoming 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in United Nations multilateral organs devoted to disarmament. [2019-11-21 | 21] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE

Anxiety Looms Over the 10th NPT Review Conference Next Year

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

The writer is President of Pugwash. Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.


Image: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (Blue); Nuclear weapons states (Red); Nuclear sharing (Orange); Neither, but NPT (Lime green). CC BY-SA 3.0

NEW YORK (IDN) – The contentious start of the 74th Session of the First Committee of the General Assembly last October in New York was a harbinger of the difficulties to be faced in the run-up to the forthcoming 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in United Nations multilateral organs devoted to disarmament. [2019-11-21 | 21] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE

Anxiety Looms Over the 10th NPT Review Conference Next Year

A Ansiedade Emerge para a 10º Conferência de Revisão do TNP no Ano que Vem

Ponto de vista de Sergio Duarte

O autor é presidente da Pugwash. Ex-alto representante da ONU para assuntos de desarmamento.

CC BY-SA 3.0

NOVA IORQUE (IDN) — O início contencioso da 74º Sessão do Primeiro Comitê da Assembleia Geral em outubro passado, em Nova Iorque, foi um prenúncio das dificuldades que serão enfrentadas na preparação para a Conferência de Revisão do Tratado de Não Proliferação de Armas Nucleares de 2020 e para os órgãos multilaterais da ONU dedicados ao desarmamento.

The G20 Should Have Nuclear Disarmament on Their Agenda – Bahasa

G20 Harus Memiliki Agenda Perlucutan Senjata Nuklir

Sudut Pandang dari Herbert Wulf*

DUISBURG, Jerman (IDN) – Saat ini, dua perkembangan kritis benar-benar mengancam keberadaan umat manusia: krisis iklim dan kemungkinan perang nuklir. Ada konsensus luas dalam hal perubahan iklim yang semakin parah, bahkan jika sama sekali tidak ada tanda-tanda solusi meskipun ada penegasan dari banyak pemerintahan. Tapi setidaknya debat iklim adalah materi yang benar-benar diminati, disertai dengan demonstrasi yang tak terhitung jumlahnya terhadap kebijakan yang merusak lingkungan.

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