"Protecting Rights, Remediating the Environment: Addressing the Harm from Nuclear Weapons" 06/20/2017 22:00 to 01/01/1970 00:00 - FES New York and partners co-hosted this side event during the First United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. This panel discussion was a side event during the first round of negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty. Discussants assessed the positive obligations in the first draft of the treaty, suggested ways to improve them, and highlighted why such revisions would be particularly important to the prohibition treaty. By promoting the inclusion of strong positive obligations in the new legal instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons, this event helped ensure that the treaty not only builds on previous humanitarian disarmament treaties but it also contributes to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. Program 390 KB Thursday, 01.06.2017 Publication Peace and Security "The Nuclear Weapons Ban and Human Security for All: Assessing the Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from a Human Security Perspective" This publication discusses proposals for a strong, integral nuclear weapons ban treaty that among others includes references to human rights, environmental law and victim assistance. Photo: © FES New York
