The landmark Ottawa Convention, also known as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, is 20 years old this year, more or less. It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 8 September 1997, opened for …
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Like the uprising of the ‘deplorables’ against globalisation that accounts for Donald Trump’s election and Brexit, are ‘peasant states’ now rebelling against the geopolitical heavyweights? The former dominate the 193-member UN General Assembly (UNGA), while …
On 7 July, 122 states voted to adopt a new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It articulates the world’s collective revulsion at the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, under any …
In a significant achievement for Australian foreign policy, UN members elected Australia to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) last month. Australia will serve a three-year term commencing 1 January 2018. It now has the …
This week, the UN is meeting for a fourth time to discuss how ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’ (LAWS) should be governed within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. NGOs such as the Campaign to Stop …