While some step away, Tonga steps forward!🤝🇹🇴
📢We celebrate that Tonga has deposited its accession instrument to the UN and will become a State Party to the @MineBanTreaty on 1 December 2025.
A strong commitment to disarmament and IHL—right when it's needed the most.⚖️📜
AP mines have little military utility today. They don’t stop armies, but they kill&maim civilians during conflict & for decades after. This is a cheap populist move that doesn’t provide real defence.
SPs should engage asap to protect @MineBanTreaty as a cornerstone of IHL!
📢We strongly condemn Poland & the Baltic states’ intention to withdraw from @MineBanTreaty. This is not about military necessity - security in the modern world cannot be ensured by outdated and indiscriminate weapons such as AP mines. Read more📷👇
https://t.co/0zpeUfhSP1
The #CCM has saved countless lives and is a key instrument for the protection of civilians. While it’s sad to see Lithuania leave, the norm and stigma against cluster munitions remain strong and must be protected!
👇Here is a quick overview of the world's nuclear arsenals at the beginning of 2025. Delivered to you by the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor in collaboration with @scientistsorg. 🙏 @nukestrat@mattkorda for the great cooperation. #TPNW3MSP@NPAdisarm@nuclearban It's urgent‼️
Vår @BanMonitor er lansert i FN: både urovekkende og positive funn om verdens #atmomvåpen+støtte til forbudet. Altfor mange europeiske og norske politikere tror at mer atomvåpen og kjernefysisk avskrekking er svar på trusselen atomvåpen utgjør
De tar feil!
https://t.co/T1KUoPLKHa
🚨The 2024 edition of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor was launched today during #TPNW3MSP. The website is updated with new state profiles and videoes. Use it and share it. 🤗@UN_Disarmament@nuclearban https://t.co/2Maz4qXy8m
🇵🇪 In our response to Peru's A5 Extension Request, we reiterated that we stand ready to support Peru - a long time partner - in implementing their clearance obligations. Please read the full statement below. #APMBC
Another horrid decision by the Biden administration, which does not help Ukraine at all.
@MineBanTreaty stopped a humanitarian crisis, AP mines are illegal for a reason & 🇺🇦 cannot accept or use them as a state party.
📢The 'Clearing the Mines 2024' report is now online at https://t.co/COJZEFpjJL, together with our 2024 Monitoring of the #OsloActionPlan. Read up on global progress in #landmine#clearance ahead of the Fifth Review Conference of the @MineBanTreaty in
#Cambodia 25-29 Nov! #SiemReapSummit
For en fantastisk #fredspris!
– Dette er en utrolig viktig anerkjennelse av arbeidet til hibakushaene, de overlevende etter Hiroshima og Nagasaki, som vi er stolte av å ha samarbeidet med over flere år i kampen mot #atomvåpen, sier
@RaymondJohansen
https://t.co/P24bvavipp
The military is discussing the event of a nuclear detonation. Most relevant is smaller, tactical nukes of 1 or 5 kg tonnes. If used, it would no longer be a tactical, but strategical weapon createing a catastrophe that would impact the whole world,says @AndersKildal@Forsvaret_no
Survivor of nuclear testing in French Polynesia, @Hinamoeura got leukemia. She is provoked about French officials being proud of their nuclear arsenals. “These weapons have forever infected my blood, it’s us survivors who are paying the price for the greatness of these weapons”.
2 hours after a detonation, my biggest concern would be the burns, 90 percent of those who died in Hiroshima died of burns. In Norway we have 8 burn beds and 236 intensive care beds. Imagine that for 100 000 patients, says MD and resident of surgery @HSykehus Saima Naz Akhtar.
Kicking off the #nukeEXPO event in Oslo tomorrow with an event tonight organised by @UngOgSolidarisk og @RodeKorsUngdom. @mattkorda sharing knowledge on the dangers of nuclear weapons, and hearing the strong testimony of a Hibakusha - survivor of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.