Author name: Selma van Oostwaard

Selma supports all the disarmament work at PAX with a special emphasis on the No Nukes team. In 2014 she and other PAX disarmament campaigners launched a public campaign in the Netherlands to initiate the creation of national legislation to outlaw nuclear weapons: www.tekentegenkernwapens.nl. One of the result of this national campaign is that a vast majority of the House wants the Netherlands to start working internationally for a nuclear weapons ban.

Policy brief: Meerderheid VN lidstaten wil onderhandelingen kernwapenverbod in 2017 – Nederland niet.

De tweede sessie van de VN Open Ended Working Group over nucleaire ontwapening (OEWG) is vandaag afgerond. De Tweede Kamer gaf de regering middels de motie Servaes c.s. een heldere …

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Dutch Parliament: the Netherlands needs to negotiate an international nuclear weapons ban treaty

As a result of the citizen’s initiative by PAX,  ASN Bank and the Dutch Red Cross, the Dutch Parliament today held a debate on a national ban on nuclear weapons. The result …

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