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By Joan Russow PhD
Global Compliance Research Project
(OUTLINE FROM A LARGER DOCUMENT)
(RE POSTED 2020-09-17) LEST WE FORGET INCREASED MILITARISM AND DEFIANCE OF THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW)
DISARMAMENT POSTER - NORTHERN fRIENDS' pEACE BOARD 1935
UPDATE IN 2020
In December 2016, Canada along with US allies gave the reason for not adopting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon, that US nuclear weapons are necessary for the security of Canada and that Canada would never agree that nuclear weapons would never be used
And in july2017 Canada refused to sign and ratify a Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons which undertakes never under any circumstances to:
(a) Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
(b) Transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly or indirectly;
(c) Receive the transfer of or control over nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices directly or indirectly;
(d) Use or threaten to use nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
(e) Assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Treaty;
(g) Allow any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices in its territory or at any place under its jurisdiction or control.
And instead Canada had agreed, at a NATO Conference, to the following;
1) Nuclear weapons must be maintained indefinitely.
2) we will improve their use and accuracy (modernize them).
3 wecan use them first.
4) we can target non-nuclear weapons states.
5) We can threaten to use them.
6) We can keep them in Europe, as we are now doing.
7) We can launch some on 15 minutes warning.
8) We say “they are essential for peace."
And We will never agree that they should never be used.
A.
PEACE PROMOTION
*COMMON SECURITY
1. We must reappropriate the word “security” and not allow it to be distorted by the military. (Dr. Ursula Franklin, internationally renowned scientist and pacifist (1984 at the lead up conference to Nairobi Conference on Women, 1985)
2. “True security exists when all are secure, through “common security” (Olof Palme, 1982) whose objectives could be extended to include but not limited to the following:
(a) to achieve a state of peace, and disarmament; through reallocation of military expenses and delegitimization of war;
(b) to promote and fully guarantee respect for human rights including labour rights, civil and political rights, indigenous rights, social and cultural rights – right to food, to housing, to safe drinking water and sanitation , right to education and right to universally accessible not for profit health care system; right to water and sanitation
(c) to ensure the preservation, conservation and protection of the environment, the respect for the inherent worth of nature beyond human purpose, to reduce the ecological footprint and to move away from the current model of unsustainable and excessive overconsumption
(d) To enable socially equitable and environmentally sound employment, energy and transportation,
(e) to fully implement the UN Declaration the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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