The Time Is Now: Gender Equality In The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

A high-level dialogue during the NPT Review Conference, organised by UNIDIR and Sweden, on the relevance of gender equality and gender perspectives across the three pillars of the NPT.

Moderated by the Director of UNIDIR, Robin Geiss, this conversation will involve foreign ministers, diplomats and experts who will share insights from their work to advance gender equality in international security.

Panellists will discuss practical measures that can foster gender equality in the NPT process and of arms control and disarmament more broadly. They will review current progress and provide ideas to strengthen the integration of gender considerations across the three pillars of the NPT.

Speakers:

• Dr. Emma Belcher, President, Ploughshares Fund.
• Leena Al-Hadid, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN, OSCE, and Vienna-based International Organisations
• Ann Linde, Foreign Minister, Sweden
• Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs

Moderator:

• Dr. Robin Geiss, Director, UNIDIR

*More speakers to be announced soon.

ROCLA: The Nicaraguan People Are Speaking, Will We Listen?

On Zoom – meeting details here. Becca Mohally Renk has lived and worked in Nicaragua with the Jubilee House Community and its project there, the Center for Development in Central America, for the past 20 years. In her work in sustainable community development with the JHC-CDCA, Becca has focused on health care, worker-owned cooperatives, at-risk teenage girls, and educating those in the global north about realities in Nicaragua. Becca and her husband, Paul, have two teenage daughters and live in a rural village outside Managua.

Article 26: Right to Education

A lack of education, especially of girls, has been demonstrated to have an enormous impact on society at large, on health, and on the economic development of countries, not least because deprivation of the right to education often spans generations, as it perpetuates entrenched cycles of poverty. Education is perhaps the most powerful tool available to pull marginalized children and adults out of poverty and exclusion, making it possible for them to play an active role in the processes and decisions that affect them.