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COP29: ICAN Ambassador, Karina Lester, speaks up on nuclear weapons and climate change.
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Karina Lester, a Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman, second-generation nuclear test survivor, and ICAN Ambassador is attending COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to highlight the lived experience of nuclear impacts and speak strongly against adopting nuclear power as...
New briefing paper: Nuclear Weapons and Our Climate
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Today, ICAN Australia has published a new briefing paper titled Nuclear Weapons and Our Climate, written by ICAN co-founder, A/Prof Tilman Ruff AO. In the lead up to the climate COP29, this timely paper sharply lays out how the “two paramount human-made...
Indonesian Ambassador calls for Australia to join the TPNW
CAMPAIGN NEWS: In September 2024, Indonesia became the 6th member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). To mark this significant regional development, Ambassador H.E. Dr. Siswo Pramono,...
MEDIA RELEASE: Indonesia and Solomon Islands ratify nuclear weapon ban treaty.
Indonesia and the Solomon Islands are among the newest state parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), making Australia increasingly an outlier within the Asia-Pacific region. The Indonesian foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, and Solomon...
Lawyers for Peace Open Letter to the PM
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Dear Prime Minister Albanese, As Australian lawyers, we believe that international law can play a powerful role in nuclear disarmament and the creation of new norms, leading to increased peace and security for all. Under your leadership, Australia...
Media Release: Australian Lawyers call on PM to sign nuclear weapon ban treaty
MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Lawyers call on PM to sign nuclear weapon ban treaty Today, on the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, a group of Australian lawyers have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to sign the Treaty on...
The Guardian: Nuclear ‘loophole’ on uranium transfers needs closing, UN forum told
The Guardian, Daniel Hurst 24 July 2024 Nuclear ‘loophole’ on uranium transfers needs closing, UN forum told The world should close a “loophole” that allows countries with nuclear weapons to transfer highly enriched uranium to non-nuclear weapons states such as...
Media Release: Civil society claims AUKUS exacerbates nuclear proliferation risks
CAMPAIGN NEWS:24 July 2024 The Australian-born Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is among 125 civil society organisations to join a statement delivered to a conference of the nations that have joined...
AUKUS civil society statement delivered to the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting
CAMPAIGN NEWS:The Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) began its second session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Thomas Huckans, a youth activist from the...
Pine Gap’s secret expansion
A new article by Peter Cronau states that ‘the expansion of Pine Gap’s capabilities to assist a US strike on China amplifies the risk of … a nuclear war’. It highlights the dangers of Australia assisting in nuclear war planning and is clearly contrary to the spirit of...