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  • 4 May 2010
    Building a critical mass for abolition

    The NPT Review Conference opened here in New York on the 3 May 2010 with major statements from Ban Ki-Moon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hillary Clinton.

  • 3 May 2010
    Nuclear non-proliferation conference can be inspired by MLK's legacy

    The days preceding the opening of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the UN in New York on the 3 May 2010 have been both compelling and exhausting. Many international NGOs and their supporters have been busily engaged at the 'Disarm Now' International NGO Conference at the Riverside Church in Harlem, an historic and symbolic venue for the peace movement in the US.

  • 30 Apr 2010
    Hiroshima mayor backs churches' bid to end nuclear weapons

    Endorsing a campaign by UK churches, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima has stressed the crucial role of British citizens in helping to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

  • 8 Apr 2010
    WCC chief hails US-Russia nuclear arms reduction treaty

    The new US-Russia nuclear arms reduction treaty signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague "is news that the World Council of Churches has awaited for a long time."

  • 8 Apr 2010
    Briefing on developments in nuclear arms reduction

    The long negotiated follow-on agreement to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) has been completed and signed in Prague today. But what are the details?

  • 8 Mar 2010
    Church of Scotland says now is the time to end the nuclear threat

    Now is the time for nations to commit to a world free of nuclear weapons, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, is telling political leaders today.

  • 13 Jan 2010
    Pope urges cuts in military spending

    As a thinktank in the UK suggested that Britain's armed forces are likely to be cut by up to a quarter, Pope Benedict has urged a decrease in military spending across the world, saying the resources would be much better spent on the poor.

  • 9 Dec 2009
    World faiths call for the abolition of nuclear weapons

    Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives joined voices on 7 December, calling for moral leadership by all the world's faiths in helping mobilise for the effort to abolish nuclear weapons.

  • 20 Jul 2009
    ‘Yes we can’ on nukes, Obama urged

    An historic opportunity now exists to work toward fulfilment of the promise of a nuclear-free world made in the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) an international peace organisation has said.

  • 26 May 2009
    North Korea test shows need to abolish all nukes, says world church body

    At a time when the international community is re-kindling the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, the North Korean nuclear test is a source of real concern, says World Council of Churches general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia.