Fissile Materials Cut-Off Treaty

Global Zero World Summit

Event Date:

Sat, 30/01/2010 - 00:00 - Thu, 04/02/2010 - 00:00

Location:

Paris

Global Zero World Summit in Paris January 30 - February 4 2010

Global Zero is looking for a handful of smart savvy, entrepreneurial university students to attend the Global Zero Summit in Paris from January 30 to February 4, as representatives of a growing youth-led movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.

A small group of applicants who

ICAN media release: Government urged to act on nuclear treaty - September 2009

Written 17/09/2009

17 September 2009 ICANⁱ media release following the tabling of the report of the Joint Standing Committe on Treaties, on Australia's nuclear treaties.

ICAN JSCOT media release 170909.pdf

Parliamentary call for nuclear abolition welcomed

Written 17/09/2009

MAPW and ICANⁱ - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - have welcomed today's call by a federal parliamentary inquiry, for Australia to play a leading role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons through a global Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).

MAPW National Council hears report on nuclear treaties

Written 02/09/2009

MAPW's National Council, which met on the weekend of 29-30 August 2009, was addressed by the Member for Wills, Kelvin Thomson M. Mr Thomson chairs the Australian Parliament's significant Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT), which is expected to report later this month on its broad-ranging inquiry into Australia’s nuclear treaties.

Kelvin Thomson MP addresses MAPW Council on nuclear treaties: August 2009

Written 02/09/2009

Kelvin Thomson MP chairs the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT), which is currently undertaking an broad-ranging inquiry into Australia’s nuclear treaties. Mr Thomson addressed MAPW's National Council on 29 August 2009.

090929_KThomson_ MAPW-Speech.pdf

Parliamentary Inquiry into Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament

Written 09/12/2008

(UPDATED 24 MARCH 2009) Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties has published 78 public submissions to its Inquiry into all the international nuclear treaties involving Australia.

Oslo conference: Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Written 04/03/2008

The Government of Norway, with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Hoover Institution, convened an international conference on Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, in Oslo on 26 – 27 February 2008.

Physicians for Global Survival

http://www.pgs.ca/

Link Added 28/02/2008

Physicians for Global Survival is a canadian based coalition of health professional campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Peace Organisation of Australia

http://poa.org.au/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Link Added 28/02/2008

THE Peace Organisation of Australia was founded in 2005 by a group of law students at the University of Melbourne. It awards the Australian Peace Prize, publishes the Australian Journal of Peace Studies, coordinates the Parliamentarians for Peace group and maintains the Australian Peace Directory,

Securing our survival: (summary). MAPW and ICAN - 2007

Written 28/02/2008

This is a 4-page overview of Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention (2007), which sets out and explains an updated Model Convention aiming eliminate nuclear weapons.

SOSSummary.pdf