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When Beatrice Fihn received a call on Oct. 6 informing the 35-year-old Swede that her group, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, she suspected a possible prank. Not that you should blame her—ICAN is just 10 years old, and the group’s aims can seem positively fanciful: the complete elimination of the world’s roughly 15,000 nuclear warheads. But that call from the Norwegian Nobel Committee was real, and so is Fihn’s goal—which may be less quixotic than it seems. ICAN, a global coalition of 440 partner organizations in 98 countries, was honored for its efforts to advance the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was successfully finalized by two-thirds of the United Nations’ 192 members this summer. The treaty—which would outlaw nuclear weapons’ use, production and possession—is now open for ratification, and will become international law after 50 countries sign on. Those countries almost certainly won’t include the members of the nuclear club: The U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, India and North Korea. (Israel is also widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, but the state has neither confirmed nor denied whether it does.) The nuclear-armed countries opposed the treaty, arguing that nuclear deterrence has helped keep peace between great states through the postwar era. “We have to be realistic,” as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley put it when treaty talks began in March. But growing tensions with a nuclear-armed North Korea—as well as the uncomfortable fact that an often erratic President Trump now has his finger on the button—are enough to make even the most hardened Cold Warrior wonder about the wisdom of keeping a nuclear arsenal. Fihn is realistic that nuclear weapons won’t be abolished overnight. But just as earlier treaties banning biological weapons and land mines eventually led to such munitions being phased out, she believes a nuclear arms ban could help turn the public against these truly horrific weapons of mass destruction. As for Trump, Fihn notes, “if you’re uncomfortable with nuclear weapons under Donald Trump, you’re probably uncomfortable with nuclear weapons.” Fihn and Hiroshima bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Dec. 10. - The Fall of Roe and the Failure of the Feminist Industrial Complex - What Trump Knew About January 6 - Follow the Algae Brick Road to Plant-Based Buildings - The Education of Glenn Youngkin - The Benefits and Challenges of Cutting Back on Meat - Here's Everything New on Netflix in July 2022—and What's Leaving - Women in Northern Ireland Still Struggle to Access Abortion More Than 2 Years After Decriminalization
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आणविक हतियार निषेध सन्धि अनुमोदनको मागसहित दूतावासअघि प्रदर्शन (तस्बिरसहित) मानव अधिकार तथा शान्ति समाजले आणविक हतियार निषेध सन्धिलाई छिटो अनुमोदन गर्न र आणविक अस्त्ररहित विश्वको लागि आग्रह गर्दै बिहीबार काठमाडौंस्थित नौंवटा दूतावास अगाडि धर्ना तथा प्रदर्शन थालेको छ। ७२ औं अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय मानव अधिकार दिवसको अवसर पारेर समाजले आणविक हतियार निषेध सन्धि अनुमोदन नगर्ने नौं ठूला राष्ट्रका दूतावास अघि प्रदर्शन गर्दै छ। जसमा अमेरिका, रुस, चीन, ब्रिटेन, फ्रान्स, भारत, पाकिस्तान, उत्तर कोरिया र इजरायल रहेका छन्। समाजले सबै देशका दूतावास अघि एकसाथ प्रदर्शन थालेको हो। आणविक अस्त्रको विश्वव्यापी उन्मुलनको माग गर्दै मानव अधिकार तथा शान्ति समाजले २५ वर्षदेखि अभियान थालेको हो। सन् २०१७ को जुलाई ७ मा राष्ट्रसंघमा आयोजित सम्मेलनद्वारा आणविक हतियार निषेध सन्धि ग्रहण भई मतदान हुँदा राष्ट्रसंघका १ सय २२ राष्ट्रले पक्षमा र नेदरल्याण्डले विपक्षमा मतदान गरेको थियो भने यी नौं राष्ट्र र अमेरिकी गठबन्धन नेटोका सदस्य राष्ट्रहरु (नेदरल्याण्ड्सबाहेक) ६९ राष्ट्रले मतदान नै गरेका थिएनन्। सन् २०१७ सेप्टेम्बर २० मा हस्ताक्षरका लागि खुला भएको र २४ अक्टोबर २०२० मा ५० राष्ट्रले अनुमोदन गरेको हुँदा त्यसको ९० दिनपछि अर्थात २०२१ को जनवरी २२ बाट यो सन्धि लागू हुन गइरहेको छ। यो सन्धिमा नेपालले हस्ताक्षर गरेपनि हालसम्म अनुमोदन भने गरेको छैन।