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Janet Fenton

Blog Posts

How its nuclear weapons tarnish the UK’s Human Rights Record

On Monday 27th Janet Fenton of Secure Scotland spoke to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) with a particular focus on Scotland’s predicament arising from the UK’s nuclear weapons. The text of her evidence is below: “Statement by the Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 3 hoursMarch 28, 2023 ago
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Public Letter on the contest for the leadership of the SNP

“While the Scottish Government is unable to become a Party to the Treaty, as First Minister I strongly support the principles of the Treaty and the work of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. An independent Scotland would be a keen signatory and I hope the day we Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 2 weeksMarch 11, 2023 ago
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January 22nd – the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

“I saw how new ideas often travel from the margins and the shadows to the centre, to the limelight where people – judges, presidents, prime ministers, international bodies – make decisions.” Rebecca Solnit Sunday 22nd January is the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 2 monthsJanuary 18, 2023 ago
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Plucky Little Belgium (we hope!)

“Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.” (George Macdonald) Last week we heard that the Belgian government were blocking the export to the UK of technical equipment for nuclear warhead manufacture. Since the information appears to have been leaked we have no way of knowing whether the Belgians will Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 4 monthsDecember 1, 2022 ago
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ICAN CEO To Step Down as TPNW grows ever stronger

Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the campaign that has worked with the diplomats of supporting states to establish the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)1 which entered into force as a UN treaty in January 2021, is to step down from Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 4 monthsNovember 22, 2022 ago
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Promises, threats and nuclear weapons

Any reasonably imaginable use of nuclear weapons would breach the long-standing laws applicable in armed conflict (such as proportionality, impact on non-combatants, i.e. civilians, and long term environmental damage). It is also recognised that if the use of a weapon is illegal then the threat to use it is also Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 6 monthsOctober 5, 2022 ago
News

70th Anniversary of 1st UK Nuclear Tests – Webinar from Scottish CND

Join Scottish CND for a webinar on October 3rd, 2022 at 18:00BST to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the UK’s first nuclear tests. Get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/70th-anniversary-of-first-uk-nuclear-tests-tickets-415882635157

By Janet Fenton, 6 monthsSeptember 26, 2022 ago
Media

“Don’t Listen to the Naysayers: momentum for nuclear weapons divestment is growing” – Dr Michael Orgel

From MEDACT Scotland and Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland, Dr Michael Orgel has written this commentary published in “Medicine, Conflict, and Survival” Journal. It can be accessed, open-source, via this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13623699.2022.2114136

By Janet Fenton, 7 monthsSeptember 11, 2022 ago
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The NPT Fiasco and Nation 148

The nations who gathered for the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) have failed to agree an outcome statement, with Russia shamelessly wrecking any hope of a consensus with its objection to a reference to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ray Acheson of Reaching Critical Will sets that Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 7 monthsAugust 28, 2022 ago
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Trident Ploughshares commemorate Hiroshima Day at UKgov HQ in Edinburgh

On Saturday 6th August a group of Trident Ploughshares members and friends, led by the Gareloch Horties affinity group, built a cairn of around 140,000 paper cranes to symbolise those who lost their lives when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on this day in 1945. The piazza Read more…

By Janet Fenton, 8 monthsAugust 8, 2022 ago

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