Launch of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor 2021

The Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor tracks progress towards a world without nuclear weapons, highlights activities that hamper such progress, and analyses the key challenges to nuclear disarmament.

This is the fourth annual edition of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor. It uses the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as the primary yardstick against which progress towards the elimination of nuclear weapons is measured, but also tracks the status of all states in relation to all the other relevant multilateral treaties and regimes dealing with nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

This event could not be more timely in a tense international context marked, among others, by the resurgence of the threat of use of nuclear weapons, but also by important upcoming events such as the first Meeting of States Parties of the TPNW and the tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Speakers

• Grethe Lauglo Østern, Norwegian People's Aid, Editor of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor
• Matt Korda, Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists
• Stuart Casey-Maslen, Honorary Professor, University of Pretoria
• Bonnie Docherty, Associate Director/Lecturer, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School

Comments by

Jamie Walsh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations in Geneva.  

Moderated by

Marc Finaud, Head of Arms Proliferation and Head of Diplomatic Tradecraft, Geneva Centre for Security Policy