Conference on Disarmament 2012 Session
Part One of the CD's 2012 session began on 23 January 2012. Subscribe to the CD Report and find reports, statements, and other documents online.
Fourth Arms Trade Treaty Preparatory Committee
The fourth ATT PrepCom will meet in New York from 13-17 February 2012 to prepare for the July negotiations of an arms trade treaty. RCW will be working with other NGOs to cover the proceedings and provide analysis and primary documentation online. Please check out our blog and web page. UNODA has posted an aide-memoire for NGOs interested in attending.
UN Programme of Action Preparatory Committee
A PrepCom for the upcoming Second Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action on small arms and light weapons will meet in New York from 19-23 March 2012. Check out our website for details and follow the action with the Small Arms Monitor when the meeting begins.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee
The first PrepCom for the 2015 Review Conference will meet in Vienna from 30 April-11 May 2012. A calendar of events is now available. Some information for NGO participation is also available. Stay tuned with RCW for more details in the coming months.
Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power: NGO world-wide study on the implications of the catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station
On 11 September, six months after the disaster at Fukushima, Reaching Critical Will released this global civil society report on nulcear power. It includes analysis of government policies from around the world and dismantles many of the myths of nuclear power. It was prepared in anticipation of the UN system-wide study on nuclear power and the upcoming high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security at the United Nations. Available in PDF for download.
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
• WILPF Statement on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 August 2011
• WILPF Statement on Jeju Island and the US Naval Base, 8 June 2011
• WILPF Statement on the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, 12 April 2011
• "Beyond
the 2010 NPT Review Conference: What’s next for nuclear disarmament?"
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November/December 2010
vol. 66, no. 6, 77-87
Critical
Issues
Background information on a wide variety
of disarmament-related topics:
• Gender
and Disarmament
• outer
space security and missile
defence (and the PAROS
Working Group)
• military
spending and Article
26 of the UN Charter
• much
more
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