The Red Cross adopts a 4-year action plan towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons

The Red Cross adopts a 4-year action plan towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons

The global Red Cross and Red Crescent movement today reiterated its deep concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and adopted a four-year action plan towards ensuring that nuclear weapons are never used again. The world's largest humanitarian organisation reiterated its objective to prohibit the use of and completely eliminate nuclear weapons. The resolution was adopted unanimously at the Council of Delegates meeting in Sydney, the highest governing body of the movement.
PEACE NOW – Special Issue

PEACE NOW – Special Issue

This special issue of PEACE NOW was brought out on the occasion of the National Conference on ‘Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Relevance for South Asia and the World’.
15 Years After Pokharan, Is India Diving Deeper Into The Nuclear Darkness?

15 Years After Pokharan, Is India Diving Deeper Into The Nuclear Darkness?

While the stability and security that Pokharan was supposed to bestow on India is still eluding, the country is facing the grave consequences of nuclear weaponisation: a steep rise in the military budget, ever expanding nuclear arsenal and an unsafe, uneconomic and anachronistic expansion of nuclear energy that India had to embrace as a bargain for international legitimacy for its nuclear weapons.