Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

March 7, 2025 |

Ann Suellentrop

Ann at UN: side sessions to treaty deliberations

One global survey found 76% of young persons call nukes unnecessary.

Ann at UN: progress toward nuke-free world

Ann Suellentrop updates us from the UN meeting on the treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

Parties to nuclear ban treaty meet at UN

Ann Suellentrop attends a UN meeting on abolishing nuclear weapons.

Abolishing nuclear weapons: ‘existential imperative’

Kimmy Igla shares insights from the UN meeting on banning nuclear weapons and insists, "There is a path forward toward progress" on nuclear weapon abolition.

Pics from meeting at UN about treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons

This photo story shows gatherings at the UN for representatives of countries that have adopted the treaty on prohibiting nuclear weapons.

Norway is first in NATO to plan to observe first meeting of ‘states parties’ to nuke-ban treaty

With a new government in Norway, it became the first NATO state to announce that it will participate in the Meeting of the States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in Vienna next year (March 22-24).

3/7 virtual Annual Meeting: Get on board the Peace Train!

Please attend our virtual Annual Meeting Sunday, March 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. (See zoom link in story.) The theme will be “Marching on to Freedom Land"--we'll sing that and "Peace Train," we'll get updates, we'll march toward the future.

Letter in KC Star: NO-NUKE FUTURE

“PeaceWorks Kansas City celebrates the Jan. 22 enactment of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,“ begins Dave Pack in his letter to The Kansas City Star published Jan. 22.

Billboards call for world free of nuclear weapons

PeaceWorks-KC is displaying billboards around the city with the help of a grant from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. You will see these messages along your travels in Kansas City, Mo., until mid-February:

Jan. 22 rally in KC & billboards mark ban of nuclear weapons

Billboards in Kansas City, Mo., and a 2 pm rally Jan. 22 will mark the “entry into force” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. At the rally at 47th and Main, wave the flags of 51 countries that have ratified the treaty, learn about the treaty, and sing "Imagine"--Imagine no nuclear weapons!

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