🧵1/7 Did you know the same companies providing weapons for war crimes in Gaza are building U.S. nuclear weapons? And universities are part of the problem. Find out more and what you can do 👇 #NuclearBan

AUKUS is more than an awkward acronym. It's a military alliance that will proliferate nuclear technology, impose radioactive waste on First Nations, develop autonomous weapons and other high-tech weapons, and more. My latest for CounterPunch.

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Today, parliamentarians from across party lines renew their call for the #nuclearban . Josh Wilson Susan Templeman MP Senator Lidia Thorpe Senator Jordon Steele-John Josh Burns Louise Pratt Dr Monique Ryan MP Sharon Claydon Russell Broadbent Sam Lim MP

New group aims for Japan's ratification of nuclear ban treaty by 2030 | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne… 核兵器をなくす日本キャンペーン #nuclearban #tpnw

Calling for further US nuclear sharing is dangerous and irresponsible, it further inflames already high tensions, and show exactly how this dangerous practice could lead to further tit-for-tat nuclear proliferation. 1/2 euractiv.com/section/defenc…

Had an inspiring discussion w/Ms. Hinamura Morgant-Cross, MP of French Polynesian Parliament & ICAN partners on issues of nuclear disarmament & assistance to victims of nuclear testing. We look forward to working together in #TPNW , #NPT , #FirstCommittee , & on 29 Aug #IDANT

'Independence Minister Jamie Hepburn has now confirmed to SNP officials that policy remains in support of signing the TPNW after independence.' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿thenational.scot/news/24250138.…

As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) rightly emphasises: “Nuclear risks are health risks.”

Last week we met with him and his team to discuss how we can join forces to amplify the crucial health argument in the call for nuclear disarmament. #NuclearBan

Nuclear risks are health risks. For over 60 years, World Health Organization (WHO) has been studying the impact of nuclear radiation on health.

Today, I had a constructive meeting with Melissa Parke, ICAN Executive Director, to add the health argument into advocating for the elimination of…

Latest commentary from J-PAND: Melissa Parke (Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), 'Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong on Our Planet' doi.org/10.1080/257516… #ICAN #TPNW #Nagasaki #Hiroshima

Very fitting that The Hague now supports the #TPNW , since anyone using nuclear weapons will likely end up there (including Dutch officials and pilots using the nuclear weapons stations in Netherlands). Congrats to everyone who worked on this!

Earlier this year, our executive director, Melissa Parke, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki – the Japanese cities where the US killed a quarter of a million people with two atomic bombs in 1945. Here are her reflections. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 長崎大学核兵器廃絶研究センター／RECNA, Nagasaki University

What better way to start the week than with some positive news? 🥳

Big congrats to Tirana 🇦🇱, Rome 🇮🇹 and Poitiers🇫🇷 for joining the #CitiesAppeal and supporting the #NuclearBan Treaty!

Here's to the municipalities worldwide taking a stand against nuclear weapons! #NucearBan 🙌

Melissa Parke on the increasingly real threat of nuclear annihilation:

 “We’re here today less by design than by the grace of luck. Sheer dumb luck,” wrote Peter Wyden. Luck is not a security strategy. satpa.pe/5b8Z7vi

In Canberra, representatives from ICAN Australia and ACF met with PM Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong to discuss Australia signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of #Nuclear Weapons. 🤝

#auspol #nuclearfree Melissa Parke

Switzerland’s government wants to postpone joining the #TPNW again, against the explicit will of parliament, cities and civil society.

Together with many Swiss partner organisations, we’re launching a popular initiative to increase public pressure: …nant.interdiction-armes-nucleaires.ch/?src=ican

At the Australian parliament this week calling for signature and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Australia needs to follow the lead of its Southeast Asian and Pacific island neighbours. 📜 ✍️ 🇺🇳 ICAN Australia

We are here at Parliament House, Canberra, talking to Anthony Albanese & Senator Penny Wong and other MPs about Australia signing the #nuclearban - we are also delivering a joint petition to the PM with Australian Conservation Foundation that has 11,000 signatures urging him to keep his promise to sign the TPNW!

“A world without nuclear weapons is totally possible,” says Emma Pike, a nuclear disarmament consultant and activist. She shared her thoughts with Times Opinion on TikTok: nyti.ms/49buYeZ

The 18 March 🇺🇳Security Council meeting showed the P5's lack of vision for nuclear disarmament, holding unto deterrence policies that hinder progress. However, it also showed a remarkable number of states ready to denounce deterrence and embrace the #TPNW : icanw.org/un_security_co…