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Peace, Sustainability & Equality
NAE NUKES 2018
in addition to the Scottish CND demonstration on the 22 September at Faslane, a programme of meetings has been put together by the wider...
Janet Fenton
Sep 3, 20181 min read
Briefing SINGAPORE CONFERENCE
Dr Re becca Johnson, one of the women who took part in last month’s historic women’s walk into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which...
Janet Fenton
Jun 11, 20182 min read
NAE NUKES ANYWHERE
Scottish CND, one of ICAN’s partner organisations in Scotland, is inviting international campaigners to join them in a march and rally at...
Janet Fenton
Apr 27, 20183 min read
Achieving the Possible – a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East:
Vision, Process, the United Nations General Assembly and the 2018 Round Tables  UN House in Scotland is to offer support for an...
Janet Fenton
Dec 21, 20176 min read
PEACE IS THE PRIZE!
To celebrate with ICAN when they receive their award in Oslo on the 10th December, why not throw a wee party?scroll down for the video...
Janet Fenton
Nov 16, 20172 min read
UPPING THE GAME
The arrests of Brian Quail and Angie Zelter in the few days after the UN Â has adopted a Nuclear Ban Treaty highlights the frustration...
Janet Fenton
Jul 23, 20175 min read
WE HAVE BANNED THE BOMB
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Adopted at UN After a decade-long effort by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN),...
Janet Fenton
Jul 7, 20172 min read
THREAT: Ban military preparation in the new treaty
The discussions are now focused on the second draft of the proposed treaty to ban nuclear weapons ongoing in New York, and it is going...
Janet Fenton
Jun 29, 20172 min read
from New York – half way there!
Continuing into this week of the negotiations, everyone is very aware of the deadline ahead, and it seems that the diplomats share civil...
Janet Fenton
Jun 29, 20173 min read
CAN SCOTLAND DISARM THE UK?
In any referendum on independence, the people of Scotland are afforded a rare privilege, the power to cast a vote which can lead to...
Janet Fenton
Jun 22, 20175 min read
BANNING THE BOMB AT UN
The final session in the time that the United Nations allocated for its members to produce a treaty to ban nuclear weapons has began...
Janet Fenton
Jun 16, 20172 min read
DRAFT BAN TREATY RELEASED
People in Scotland have been chanting ‘ban the bomb’ since the first US weapons came up the Clyde, so let’s be celebrating this week’s...
Janet Fenton
May 25, 20172 min read
THE WORLD – NAE PLACE FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Friday was the last day of the first session of the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty discussions in New York. Second session starts in June till the...
Janet Fenton
Mar 31, 20173 min read
The World – nae place for nuclear weapons
Today’s start of the United Nations negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty means that multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts is...
Janet Fenton
Mar 29, 20173 min read
We must continue to promulgate Scotland’s opposition to nuclear weapons
BREXIT is just one aspect of UK foreign policy where Scotland is in global democratic deficit. The UN Global Ban Treaty is another. It is...
Janet Fenton
Feb 13, 20172 min read
OPEN LETTER TO BORIS JOHNSON
Open Letter to Boris Johnson, UK FCO regarding the UN First Committee discussions on a Global Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty to On Friday 19...
Janet Fenton
Oct 26, 20163 min read
UN UPDATE
There is a big team of ICAN campaigners from all over the world here at the UN meeting talking to the diplomats and doing our best to...
Janet Fenton
Oct 14, 20161 min read
A BAN IS NEARER
Despite the best efforts of Theresa to renew Trident, no questions asked, the world is preparing to ensure that events will overtake her...
Janet Fenton
Oct 14, 20166 min read
A BAN IS COMING
On Friday 19th August in Geneva, Bill Kidd MSP and co-chair of Parliamentarians for Nuclear non-Proliferation and Disarmament ( PNND),...
Janet Fenton
Aug 20, 20163 min read
TIME FOR A LITTLE DIRECT..
Cordless angle grinders or portable oxyacetylene cutting torches in the hands of twenty or thirty peaceful non violent civilians working...
Janet Fenton
Jul 22, 20161 min read
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