Belgium Banks Ban the Bomb

By ICAN

BRUSSELS (IDN) — Belgian financial institutions led the way against investments in cluster munitions, now they are poised to do the same on nuclear weapons. Three major Belgian financial institutions—KBC Bank, VDK Bank and De Groof Petercam Asset Management—have cited the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as the reason for ending investments in companies associated with the production of nuclear weapons. [2021-06-29]

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The US Builds A ‘Systemic’ Pact to Counter China’s Growing Influence

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) — Nearly five months after the termination of Donald Trump’s erratic presidency, US President Joe Biden has triggered a sort of ‘systemic’ pact against China—with partners in the Group of Seven (G-7), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the European Union (EU) at the June 11-15 summits. [2021-06-27 | 05] CHINESE | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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The US Builds A ‘Systemic’ Pact to Counter China’s Growing Influence

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) — Nearly five months after the termination of Donald Trump’s erratic presidency, US President Joe Biden has triggered a sort of ‘systemic’ pact against China—with partners in the Group of Seven (G-7), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the European Union (EU) at the June 11-15 summits. [2021-06-27 | 05] CHINESE | ITALIAN |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life

カナダ・フランスの核兵器政策、「生命への権利」違反を問われる

【ジュネーブIDN＝ジャヤ・ラマチャンドラン】

市民団体に促されて、カナダとフランスの核兵器政策が「市民的及び政治的権利に関する国際規約の第６条に規定された『生命への権利』に違反している」と国連自由権規約人権委員会が主張した。これらの権利は、人間の固有の尊厳に由来するものである。

カナダ・フランスに加えて、市民団体はアイスランド・北朝鮮・ロシア・米国の核政策に対して異議を申し立てている。デンマークの核兵器政策もまた、女子差別撤廃条約の下での義務の定期的見直しの一環として、異議を受けている。

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Hersey Helped Hiroshima Survivors Tell and Preserve Their Stories

Viewpoint by John Loretz

This book review was originally published in IPPNW’s designated journal, Medicine, Conflict and Survival.

MALDEN, Massachusetts, USA (IDN) — In 1946, John Hersey wrote a magazine article that changed the world. On the 75th anniversary of the events he described so vividly in Hiroshima, journalist Lesley M. M. Blume has given us Fallout, a timely reminder that Hersey’s courageous and influential reporting is as important today as it was when the facts about nuclear weapons were still shrouded in secrecy. [2021-06-23]

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Nuclear Risks: Reduction or Elimination?

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

Ambassador, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

NEW YORK (IDN) — “We escaped the Cold War without a

nuclear holocaust by some combination

of skill, luck and divine intervention—

probably the latter in greatest proportion.”[1]

— Gen. Lee Butler, former commander of U.S. nuclear forces. [2021-06-23]

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Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life – Arabic

تحدي سياسات الأسلحة النووية الكندية والفرنسية لانتهاك الحق في الحياة

بقلم جايا راماشاندران

جنيف (IDN) – بدافع من منظمات المجتمع المدني، تحدت لجنة حقوق الإنسان التابعة للأمم المتحدة سياسات الأسلحة النووية في كندا و فرنسا باعتبار أنه انتهاك للحق في الحياة، وهو حق منصوص عليه في المادة 6 من العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية والسياسية (ICCPR). هذه الحقوق تنبع من الكرامة اﻷصيلة للفرد،

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Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life – Korean

생명권 침해로 도전 받는 캐나다와 프랑스의 핵무기 정책

 Jaya Ramachandran 글

제네바(IDN) — 유엔 인권위원회는 캐나다와 프랑스의 핵무기 정책이 시민적, 정치적 권리에 관한 국제규약 (ICCPR) 제6조에 명시된 생명권을 침해하는 것이라고 이의를 제기하는 시민사회단체의 자극을 받았다. 이러한 권리는 인간의 고유한 존엄성에서 비롯된다.

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A Seismic Event in US-Russia Relations

Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*

NEW YORK (IDN) — The President of the United States Joseph Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin met on June 16 in Geneva at a time when the two countries are engrossed in an antagonistic confrontation over many issues—historically, the worst ever relations between the two countries.

Even during the rancorous Cold War years, the two countries engaged in many noteworthy projects on global issues, nuclear disarmament, scientific advancements, and to promote foreign investment and trade that were mutually beneficial to both nations. [2021-06-17]

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Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life

By Jaya Ramachandran

GENEVA (IDN) — Spurred by civil society organisations, the UN Human Rights Committee has challenged the nuclear weapons policies of Canada and France as being in violation of the Right to Life, a right enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). These rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person. [2021-06-07 | 04]  ARABIC |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN

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