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Conference
on Disarmament (CD) Report.
Features weekly reports throughout the Conference on Disarmament.
This is the only NGO service that reports on the world's sole
negotiating body for disarmament.
NPT
News in Review.
A daily publication produced during the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty Preparatory Committee and Review Conferences. It features
analysis of the day's events, feature articles from NGOs around
the world, interviews with diplomats and NGO representatives,
nuclear facts, announcements, cartoons, calendar of events,
and more.
First
Committee Monitor. A weekly NGO newsletter
produced during the entire session of the UN General Assembly
First Committee. It is a cooperative project between a dozen
New York-based NGOs that share the monitoring and reporting
responsibilities at the GA.
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BASIC Email Updates
Host: (BASIC).
Description: BASIC provides email updates
on three of the issue areas it focuses on: missile defense,
biological weapons, and Washington's nuclear weapons
policy. All three provide analysis of the latest news,
along with a selection of information and articles illustrating
new trends in policy and public opinion and are sent
out either once or twice a month. While examining events
from all parts of the globe, the updates focus primarily
on illuminating the swings and shifts of the US debate
for a European audience.
To subscribe: Fill out the form available
at:
The Non-Proliferation Review
Host: (CNS) at the Monterrey
Institute of International Studies.
Description: is a refereed journal concerned
with the causes, consequences, and control of the spread
of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Review features
case studies, theoretical analyses, and policy debates
on such issues as individual country programs, treaties
and export controls, WMD terrorism, and economic and
environmental effects of weapons proliferation.
Archived editions: Selected back issues may
be ordered from CNS at:
To subscribe: To subscribe to the latest
volume of the Review, go to ,
or contact Taylor & Francis through the address
located on the Taylor & Francis website
Global Security Newswire
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Archives: The most recent edition can be
found here:
but if you scroll down, you can search through all archived
issues by date.
Description: The ACA email updates feature
links to the newest editions of (a monthly journal) as well as the
latest news and press releases from the Arms Control
Association.
Archives: All issues of Arms Control Today
dating back to 1997 are available on the
Issues prior to 1997 may be obtained by contacting the
Assistant Editor.
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INESAP Email Discussion List
Host:
Description: A forum for networking as well
as for general discussion of issues concerning the non-proliferation
and disarmament of nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons of mass destruction, of missiles and other relevant
delivery systems, as well as the prevention of missile
defenses and space weapons.
Archives: The discussion list is not archived,
but members of the list often contribute to the , an analytical digest that
focuses mainly, though not entirely, on technical and
scientific aspects of nonproliferation, disarmament,
and other issues of war and peace. Archived Information
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ATRC Email Updates
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Description: News updates for activists,
educators, and interested individuals covering different
arms trade and military budget issues.
Archives: Available on the
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FPIF Email Updates
Host: , a project of the and a self-described “think
tank without walls" that functions as an international
network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates.
Description: FPIF is committed to advancing
a citizen-based foreign policy agenda--one that is fundamentally
rooted in citizen initiatives and movements and promotes
broad progressive principles as respect for human rights,
environmental protection, broadly shared economic development,
a preference for multilateral solutions, and demilitarization.
It is their aim for all FPIF materials to be concisely
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Archives: All FPIF materials are available
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TFF Fora
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Description: TFF hosts three different email
lists:
PressInfo: includes analyses
and debate articles; PeaceBrowser: updates on the TFF
website, including TFF articles and feature articles
produced by non-TFF staff; PeaceTips: offers small hints,
good ideas, short texts and other alerts.
With a focus on the Balkans, Iraq, global conflict-(mis)management,
the UN and alternative security as well as non violence,
TFF provides alternatives to mainstream concepts of
security and the policies that develop out of this conceptual
framework.
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South Asia Citizens Wire
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Description: A volunteer-run web service
that carries reports (both from the mainstream media
and autonomous media) and information on implications
of the dangerous rise of fundamentalist politics and
shrinking secular spaces in South Asia. It is intended
as a counter information effort for people concerned
and interested in issues of peace, secularism, human
rights, democratization in or connected to South Asia.
Archives: available at:
The Sunflower
Host:
Description: Provides educational information
on nuclear weapons abolition and other issues relating
to global security.
Archives: Available for search at
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Abolition Global Caucus
Host: , a global network calling for a treaty to eliminate
nuclear weapons, is supported by concerned individuals,
citizen action groups, religious leaders, political
and civic leaders, retired military leaders, Nobel laureates,
municipalities, and colleges and universities.
Description: The Abolition Global Caucus
promotes international dialogue on key nuclear issues
and provides a forum for individuals and organizations
to contribute action alerts, news bulletins and ideas
that will lead to a more secure and peaceful world,
free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
Archived postings:
To subscribe: Send
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Other: There are also Abolition Caucus listserves
for specific regions (Abolition-USA, Abolition-U.K.,
for example).
Chemical Weapons Update
Host:
Description: Regular press releases concerning
the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
As the permanent Secretariat of the CWC, the OPCW works
to ensure a credible, transparent regime to verify the
destruction of chemical weapons and prevent their re-emergence
in any Member State; to provide protection and assistance
against chemical weapons; to encourage international
cooperation in the peaceful uses of chemistry; and to
bring about universal membership of the OPCW by facilitating
international cooperation and national capacity building.
Archives: All documents relating to the CWC are available
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