Tag: UN nuclear weapons ban
NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...
COMMENTARY: By Prue Taylor in Auckland
From 1949 to 1996 more than 300 nuclear devices were detonated in the Pacific. In the mid-1990s a generation...
PANG condemns Australia policy for ‘abandoning’ Pacific nuclear-free pact
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Australia needs to be put on notice by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders over abandoning its commitments under the South Pacific’s...
Why Indonesia must ratify the global nuclear weapon ban treaty
By Deandra Madeena Moerdaning in Vienna
A year ago on July 7, 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that pushes forward a...
Pacific’s role and history of nuclear suffering boosted treaty success
ANALYSIS: By Dr Vanessa Griffen
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier this month that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to ICAN, the International...
‘A price they never should’ve paid’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki victims remembered
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
The estimated 226,000 people who lost their lives in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been remembered in...
Timor, Indonesia vote for NZ-backed ‘gift for future’ nuclear-free ban
UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu flags new challenges facing the disarmament agenda in the 21st century. Video: UN News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Timor-Leste and Indonesia...
