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.

An Israeli & an Iranian talk about the NPT: Briefing on the Middle East WMD free zone

As the 10th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon) is about to open on the 4th of January, Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) is delighted to offer the chance for civil society campaigners to take a closer look at what is happening in efforts to create a weapons of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East: the unofficial fourth pillar of the NPT.

Abolish Nuclear Weapons Before Its Too Late

Frank  von Hippel, co-founder of the Princeton University Science and Global Security Program, and Bruce Knotts, director of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office, will discuss courses of action which could reduce the risk of blundering into global catastrophe. REGISTER HERE.