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For the first time civil society is given a platform at the Chemical Weapons Convention

In a major coup for global civil society, non-governmental organisations – including the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – were this week for the first time provided the opportunity to...

Africa and the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

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Although the use of nuclear weapons is widely recognised as being inhumane, and despite an international agreement reached some 40 years ago to further the goal of nuclear disarmament, some states...

Why the IAEA Director General’s visit to South Africa matters

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From 7-10 February, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, was in South Africa to meet several government ministers and undertake site visits to various facilities...

Time for Angola to Ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention

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Angola, Somalia and Egypt and now South Sudan, which in July 2011 became the 193rd member state of the United Nations (UN), are among only eight countries that are not party to the Chemical Weapons...

Nuclear Weapons and their Consequences: The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law

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According to the African Union (AU), the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems remains one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. This was...

Nuclear Weapons and their Consequences: The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law

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According to the African Union (AU), the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems remains one of the greatest threats to international peace and security. This was...

Africa and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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In May 2012, the first in a series of three preparatory committee meetings for the 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in Vienna,...

Africa and the Convention Banning Biological and Toxin Weapons

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The Seventh Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC)...

Africa Should Not Allow the Ban on Cluster Munitions to be Undermined

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This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...

The Return of South Africa’s Highly Enriched Uranium to the US in Context

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On 17 August 2011, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the United States issued a press release announcing that the South African government, through the Nuclear Energy...

Securing Africa’s Nuclear Resources

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Although the need to better secure nuclear and other radioactive material and associated technologies has been on the international agenda for many years, it has taken on heightened significance in...

African Commission on Nuclear Energy Begins to Take Shape

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The pan-African body responsible for ensuring that African States and States such as the USA, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom comply with the Treaty of Pelindaba establishing Africa as...

Major Boost for Africa’s Quest to be Nuclear Weapon Free

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In a great show of support for Africa's Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba), Russian Federation President, Dmitry Medvedev has submitted two protocols attached to the Treaty of...

Towards a nuclear weapons-free world

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In this video clip, Noel Stott of the Institute for Security Studies speaks with Polity's Amy Witherden about the May Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, and progress...

The NPT Review Conference a Small but not Insignificant Achievement

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On 28 May, 190 States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) adopted a final document at its 8th Review Conference (RevCon) held at the United Nations Headquarters...

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