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Articles by Marion Bowman
Historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017
Over 71 years after atomic weapons flattened the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, leading to the development of over 50,000 nuclear weapons by ten nations, a majority of 123 UN Member states have voted to convene a multilateral UN conference in 2017 "to negotiate a legally binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination".
Whose work was the inspiration for the first nuke-free country?
New Zealand was the first country in the world to pass national nuclear-free legislation. Marilyn Waring reflects on how Dr. Helen Caldicott’s influence culminated in the passage of the cornerstone of New Zealand’s foreign policy. If you were growing up in New Zealand and Australia post World War II, there’s a chance you knew about the United States using the Marshall Islands as a nuclear testing site from 1947 until 1962.
Self-care in a digital space
This article is part of 50.50's in-depth coverage of the 2016 AWID Forum being held on 8th -11th September in Bahia, Brazil. “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives!” AWID’s 13th International Forum began with Audre Lorde’s call to an intersectional movement.
The world is complex and unstable. Our approach to policy-making must reflect that fact.
Social scientists and policy-makes have long built their models around a theory of 'rational action' which bears little relation to how people respond to the complexities of the world around them. Recent decades have seen a dramatic growth in the literature on complex systems. Much of this has developed in mathematics, and in the natural and computational sciences. Increasingly however, this approach is gaining traction in the social sciences. This has in many ways been a breath of fresh air.
Will Nagasaki be the last use of nuclear weapons?
Today is the 71st anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Last week I was in Nagasaki, participating in a symposium on nuclear issues organised by Asahi Shinbun, Japan's second largest national newspaper. I met several survivors of the Nagasaki bombing (known as Hibakusha), including Michiko Kano, whose son has just published a book about her experiences "15 year old Hibakusha: So as not to erase history".
From Hiroshima to Trident: listening to the Hibakusha
“Humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist indefinitely. How much longer can we allow the Nuclear Weapon States to continue threatening all life on earth?” - Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of Hiroshima. This article was first published on openDemocracy 50.50 on 6 August 2015. It is republished here on the 71st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing in which more than 140,000 people died.
FP Friday 29 July
If the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in the UK, France and Belgium is best described as a collective failure of moral courage, then Germany's crisis is a very different one of integration.
The distance travelled: Beijing, Hillary, and women's rights
Hillary Rodham Clinton will need to listen to the voices of women working at grassroots on the frontline, and be prepared to use her power, should she win, to defend the human rights defenders. This article was first published by openDemocracy in April 2015 So Hillary is running again. And the campaign against her has also taken off, with her gender and her record on women’s rights part of the story. How far will Clinton go this time in positioning herself as a champion of women?
Piece of Silk: "When story-telling is a matter of life and death"
The play, Piece of Silk, is a powerful study of the experiences of women survivors of domestic abuse - an experience that knows no ethnic, national or class boundaries. The claustrophobic, small, dark space of a fringe theatre upstairs in a London pub is the perfect setting for Jennie Buckman’s new play, ‘Piece of Silk’, derived from the Arabian Nights story of Scheherazade and the experiences of women survivors of domestic violence.
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