Oct 21, 2012 | Denuclearization, Disarmament, Events, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, United Nations
Nearly 1000 parliamentarians from 150 parliaments (including most of those from nuclear weapons-possessing countries) will gather in Quebec City for the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly from October 21-26th 2012. PNND and IPU will use the occasion to...
Jul 26, 2012 | Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament and Peace Education, DPE, Global Security Institute, Hiroshima, India, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Message from the President MPI Activities – New Brief: “A Global Law to Ban Nuclear Weapons” – Ottawa Seminar – World Capital Tour – InterAction Council – Swiss Seminar on Irreversibility – Geneva Consultation –...
Jul 26, 2012 | Ambassador Dhanapala, Ambassador Thomas Graham, Douglas Roche, Global Security Institute, Jonathan Granoff, Michael Douglas, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Recently, several members of GSI’s leadership have been in the media: Middle Powers Initiative Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche, O.C., published an op/ed in Embassy magazine calling on Canada and other middle powers to support US President Barack Obama’s...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
by Douglas Roche Embassy March 9, 2011 Two events have coincided to give the Canadian government a powerful opportunity to play a key role in the growing effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Both the Senate and the House of Commons have...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche December 15, 2010 Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under “Routine Proceedings,” but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada’s Parliament, both the House...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Alyn Ware November 10, 2010 In 1996, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy invited ‘like-minded States’ to Ottawa to draft a treaty banning landmines- bypassing negotiations on a more limited landmines control regime that were bogged...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche, O.C. April 14, 2010 US President Barack Obama dramatized world attention on nuclear dangers during his extraordinary 47-nation Washington summit this week by warning that just an apple-sized container of plutonium could set off a...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by Douglas Roche and Ernie Regehr February 3, 2010 High-ranking officials of the US State Department, NATO and the United Nations were in Ottawa last week to meet with the leaders of five national nuclear disarmament groups and experienced civil society...
Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds
Embassy by MPI Chairman Emeritus Douglas Roche August 19, 2009 When President Barack Obama chairs a summit of the UN Security Council Sept. 24 on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, a new and exciting moment will have arrived in the long struggle...
Jul 5, 2012 | Op Eds
March 12, 2002 By Senator Douglas Roche The Globe and Mail The idea of waging nuclear war is taking flight in Washington. Canada must protest, says Douglas Roche, former chair of the UN Disarmament Committee. Nuclear weapons are back on the front pages, with...
May 22, 2012 | Photo Galleries
September 28-29, 2006 Ottawa, Canada
May 22, 2012 | Op Eds
Op-ed by Douglas Roche Embassy, December 15, 2010, p. 15 Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under “Routine Proceedings,” but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada’s Parliament, both the House...
May 22, 2012 | Middle Powers Initiative, Policy Briefs and Reports
Press Release March 22, 2004 Contact: Senator Douglas Roche, Ottawa, (613) 943-9559 or Zachary Allen, San Francisco, (415) 397-6760. NATO’s nuclear policies have put Canada in conflict with its goals for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the Middle Powers...
May 22, 2012 | Photo Galleries
September 28-29, 2006 Ottawa, Canada
Jan 8, 2007 | Bipartisan Security Group, Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Nobel Summit, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, U.S. Congress, United Nations
Contents: Message from the President Highlight of Activities – MPI Convenes Third Meeting of the Article VI Forum, Ottawa, Canada – BSG Offers Congressional Hearing Testimony, Washington, DC – PNND Update – World Summit of Nobel Laureates,...
Jun 2, 2006 | Global Security Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Newsletter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Contents: GSI Experts to Work Closely with WMD Commission Middle Powers Initiative to Conduct High-Level Delegation to Canada GSI Experts Represent International Peace Bureau at Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in South Korea Read the...
