HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.
Zia Mian & M.V. Ramana The attempt at the UN to ban atomic weapons is based on the premise that…
CNDP Statement (April 6, 2017) “We have come to know through social media that Kumar Sundaram of CNDP…
This week at the UN Headquarters in New York, an unprecedented marks the commencement of negotiation is at the United Nations Headquarters in New Yorktaking place wherein most member states of the UN General Assembly are discussing on a comprehensive legal prohibition on the use, possession, production, stockpiling and deployment of nuclear weapons. The treaty, if adopted, would mark a significant step towards the eventual goal of the complete elimination of these weapons of mass destruction.
Setsuko Thurlow, the octagenarian survivor of Hiroshima bombing, in her evocative speech in the UNGA this week during negotiations on the nuclear ban treaty, gave a fervent call for banning nuclear weapons while her generation of victims fade away.
