Yearly archives: 2020

Benin has become the latest state to confirm ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, taking the total number to 51. The Treaty will enter into legal force next January after Honduras became the 50th state to ratify in October. Benin is the seventh African state to […]

Niger has become the 86th state to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, announcing the move just days after Zimbabwe became the 85th. The Treaty will make nuclear weapons illegal from Friday 22 January 2021 having been ratified by 50 states. At the United Nations earlier in […]

The United Nations General Assembly has reaffirmed support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons with 130 states voting in favour of a new resolution on Monday 7 December. The number of states in support was larger than the number which initially supported the Treaty when negotiations concluded […]

The government has reiterated its opposition to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during a short discussion in the House of Lords this week. A question was asked by Baroness Sue Miller, who wrote the foreword to the report from the Nuclear Weapons Financing Research Group, of which […]

Zimbabwe has become the 85th state to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, announcing the move over the weekend as the number of days until the Treaty comes into international law reached 50. The Treaty will make nuclear weapons illegal from Friday 22 January 2021. Zimbabwe is […]