Downloads related to "Non Proliferation Treaty"
Selling uranium to India: an ICAN and MAPW joint media release, 4 December 2011
Labor sells out on nuclear non-proliferation, a joint media release from MAPW and ICANi on 4 December, following the ALP conference decision to sell uranium to India.
Illegality of uranium sales to India. November 2011
A two page briefing paper by Tim Wright summarising the legal opinion on uranium sales to India provided to ICAN by Professor Donald Rothwell of ANU.
Uranium sales to India: legal advice
Formal legal opinion provided to ICAN by Professor Don Rothwell from the Australian National University states that the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty prohibits Australia from selling uranium to countries that have not accepted full-scope safeguards.
Uranium sales to India: 2010 fact sheet
2010 4-page fact sheet written by Dr Jim Green for the Nuclear Awareness Project, funded by the MAPW Peace Fund. The paper analyses the strategic and health risks of selling Australian uranium to nuclear-armed India, the potential to escalate a nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, and the effects of contravening the NPTi (nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty). See also the more detailed briefing paper on this topic.
Briefing notes: Uranium sales to India - October 2011
Notes setting out the key points against Australia selling uranium to India, which is not a signatory to the NPTi. Members may wish to use some or all of this paper when communicating with their local Member of Parliament or with the media. A more detailed paper can be found at http://www.choosenuclearfree.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Uranium-India-4p-final.pdf
Sample Letter to MPs and Editors Urging Support for the Nuclear Weapons Convention
A draft letter to be sent to your local MP or Senator urging them to support the Nuclear Weapons Convention.
NPT Members Action Kit: MAPW 2010
Resource kit for MAPW members developed for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) Review Conference. Contains a Nuclear Weapons Convention 'cheat sheet' as well as draft letters to your MP and local newspaper editor. The letters to your MP and editor are also available as a Word document for easy editing.
MAPW media release: Fast track to zero nuclear weapons needed
Media release following release of report “Eliminating Nuclear Threats” by The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. MAPW applauds the report for recognising the destructive potential of nuclear weapons, but criticises the slow pace of nuclear disarmament envisaged by the report.
''Abolishing all Nuclear Weapons' Malcolm Fraser lecture, 2009
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser gives the 2009 Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture presented by the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Lowy institute for International Policy. Prime Minister Fraser addresses the current state of nuclear weapons acquisition and distribution and the present danger and opportunities facing the world. Audio of the lecture is available here. Comments by the Lowy Institute's Hugh White.
ICAN media release: Government urged to act on nuclear treaty - September 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. The release quotes Dimity Hawkinds and MAPW's Bill Williams and Sue Wareham, as welcoming recommendations that the government support a Nuclear Weapons Convention, and play a leading role in working for nuclear disarmament.
Kelvin Thomson MP addresses MAPW Council on nuclear treaties: August 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. He discussed progress towards nuclear disarmament, including many of the international treaties being considered by the parliamentary enquiry.
MAPW meeting - Imagine there’s no bomb: July 2009
Flyer for MAPW dinner meeting: a report-back from the UN’s nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee with Associate Professor Tilman Ruff and Dr Ruth Mitchell on Tuesday 14 July 2009 in North Melbourne.
Executive Summary, An Illusion of Protection: ACF & MAPW, 2006
Ourlines key findings and recommendations of this important report which documents the unavoidable limitations of safeguards on nuclear materials, in particular in relation to export of uranium to China. 12-page booklet published by MAPW and the ACFi in 2006. (Full report also available here.)
An Illusion of Protection: ACF & MAPW, 2006
This important report documents the unavoidable limitations of safeguards on nuclear materials, in particular in relation to export of uranium to China. 46-page booklet published by MAPW and the ACFi in 2006. (Executive Summary also available here.)
MAPW Media Release: Doctors applaud withholding uranium from Russia
18 September 2008: MAPW welcomes the recommendations by Australian government's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, that Australia does not proceed with uranium sales to Russia until far more stringent measures are in place to separate Russia's civilian and military nuclear facilities.
Nuclear diplomacy: the inside story
Flyer for meeting on Tuesday July 8 2008, organised by MAPW Victorian Branch, to hear from Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff and Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar about the NPTi PrepCom in Geneva, May 2008. Also honouring - and with special guest - Senator Lyn Allison.
NPT PrepCom: ICAN report, 2008
Tim Wright attended the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting in Geneva in May 2008 on behalf of ICANi. MAPW Immediate Past President Tilman Ruff, with Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar, were NGOi representatives on the official Australian delegation. This ICANi report describes both the official meeting, including Australia's role; and the unofficial campaign meetings and workshops of anti-nuclear NGOis which accompanied it.
NPT — Nuclear Proliferation Traders. Jean McSorley - 2000
Jean McSorley, independent anti-nuclear campaigner since 1980, discusses the 2000 NPTi Review Conference and “peaceful uses of nuclear technology”. Paper from MAPW Conference 2000.
Understanding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (print quality). MAPW - 2007
This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (Printer quality version - larger file size).
