Author: humanitarian_disarmament

Susan Aboeid, Human Rights Watch Fourteen years after the adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the treaty’s goal ofContinue Reading

Ray Acheson, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom This editorial originally ran in Reaching Critical Will’s NPT News in Review. For moreContinue Reading

Lan Mei, Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative Efforts to prohibit and regulate autonomous weapons systems in the Convention onContinue Reading

Ruth Rohde and Alicia Sanders-Zakre, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons If asked when nuclear weapons have been used, mostContinue Reading

Lan Mei, Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative One week marked two major milestones for humanitarian disarmament. First, states finalizedContinue Reading

Bonnie Docherty, Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic This post appeared on the blog of the Harvard Law School InternationalContinue Reading

Susi Snyder, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) In February 2022, Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons. TheContinue Reading

Katherine Young, Explosive Weapons Monitor States, civil society, and international organizations will convene in Geneva on June 17 to finalizeContinue Reading

Lan Mei, Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative  In recent discussions of the use of explosive weapons in populated areasContinue Reading

Lisa Wang, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic  The penultimate consultations on a new political declaration on the useContinue Reading