1. Disarmament to save humanity
a) Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear risk reduction
- OSCE PA declaration on détente, diplomacy and no-first-use
- USA: No-first-use resolutions in federal and state legislatures
- USA: Senate hearing on the authority to launch a nuclear war
- Russia/USA: Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Non-proliferation and arms control
- United Kingdom: Lords Inquiry on Rising nuclear risks, disarmament and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 2019
- European Parliament Resolution on the 2020 NPT Review Conference
- US/Russia dialogue: Russian parliamentary group for relations with the US Congress
- USA: Hastening Arms Limitation Talks (HALT) Act 2020
Nuclear tests
- The PTBT Amendment Conference – a novel approach to achieve the CTBT
- French National Assembly: Advancing CTBT Entry into Force
- Indonesia: Parliamentary visits to CTBTO
- USA: Cutting the funding for nuclear testing – the PLANET Act
- USA: Nuclear testing compensation legislation
- USA: Environmental monitoring and the Runit Island nuclear waste dome
National and regional prohibitions:
- New Zealand: Nuclear Free Zone Act 1987
- Treaty of Tlatelolco: Latin America and the Caribbean NWFZ
- Parliamentary statement supporting a Middle East WMD-free zone
- Bahrain: IPU Parliamentary Group support for a Middle East Zone
- Parliamentary statement on denuclearization of North-East Asia
Elimination and a nuclear weapons convention
- Parliamentary resolutions supporting the NPT and a Nuclear Weapons Convention
- IPU resolution on nuclear disarmament and the role of parliaments
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- IPU/ICAN letter to parliaments
- Bangladesh: TPNW legislation
b) Chemical and Biological weapons
- Nepal, Samoa, Central African Republic and Tanzania: Ratification of the BWC
- UK: Chemical Weapons Act 1996 and destruction of stockpiles
- European parliament resolution on the BTWC, 2006
- PGA Campaign: Biological Weapons Convention & UN Security Council Resolution 1540
- India: Chemical Weapons Act 2000: regional confidence building
- Chile: Parliament action on Biological and Chemical Weapons
c) Outer Space
- European parliament: Space and Security resolution 2008
- New Zealand: Outer Space & High-altitude Activities Act 2017, Space launch guidelines 2019
- USA: Space Preservation Act of 2001
- USA: Senate draft resolution on peaceful uses of Space, 2019
2. Disarmament that saves lives
a) Conventional weapons and the arms trade
- Global Parliamentary Declaration on the Arms Trade Treaty
- Costa Rica: Abolition of armed forces
- Guinea Bissau and Maldives: Ratification of the ATT
- USA: Leahy Laws
- USA: Congress actions on arms sales and human rights violations
- UK parliamentary inquiry on arms exports, implementing the Arms Trade Treaty, 2018
b) Small arms and light weapons
- Argentina: National Programme for the Voluntary Surrender of Firearms, 2006
- Brazil: Statute of Disarmament, Law No. 10,826/03, 2003
- PARLATINO: Regional cooperation and Model Law 2008
- West Africa: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other related Materials, 2006
- Australia: National Firearms Agreement and associated legislation, 1996
- Burkina Faso: Addressing armed violence and illicit arms trafficking
c) Inhumane weapons: Landmines, cluster munitions and explosive weapons in populated areas
Cluster Munitions
- France: Law on the Elimination of Cluster Munitions, 2010
- Netherlands: Regulations on divestment from the cluster munitions industry
- Belgium: Laws banning inhumane weapons and related investments
- European Parliament: Resolution, 2007
USA: Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act, 2017
Landmines
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Demining Law 2002 (amended 2017)
- Ireland: Cluster Munitions And Anti-Personnel Mines Act (2008)
- USA: Joint Congressional letter on Landmines, May 2020
Explosive weapons in populated areas
- International Network on Explosive Weapons parliamentary appeal
3. Disarmament for future generations: fully autonomous weapons and military uses of cyberspace
- IPU Resolution on Cyber-warfare and global security, 2015
- European parliament: Resolution on autonomous weapons systems, September 2018
- Parliamentary declaration supporting a treaty prohibiting fully autonomous weapons
- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly resolution on cyber-attacks and cyber-security, 2013
- European Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox
4. Strengthening partnerships
Mayors
- European appeal of mayors and parliamentarians, 2019
Women
- Bougainville peace and arms disposal agreement, 2001
- Women legislators appeals for peace and disarmament
- IPU policy on gender representation
Religious communities
- Joint events with religious leaders, 2015-2017
Youth
- IPU Youth Forum and disarmament
Disarmament Education
- New Zealand: Disarmament education and the United Nations
- Bahrain: Scientific Research Award on curbing WMD proliferation
Parliamentary events to commemorate UN Days
- International day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons
- International day against nuclear tests
- UN Disarmament Week
UN, treaty bodies and parliamentary organisations
- Parliamentary participation in UN and treaty-body meetings
- IPU Annual UN Hearings
- United Nations Associations and UNFOLD ZERO
5. Disarmament, climate protection and sustainable development
- USA: Economic conversion, US Congress and military base closures
- UK Parliament: Defence diversification and nuclear disarmament
- New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland: Nuclear weapons divestment
- USA: Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditure (SANE) Act, 2019
- IPU: Launch of Move the Nuclear Weapons Money
6. Pandemics and disarmament, public health and economic sustainability
Addressing COVID-19, public health, weapons and the military
- US Senate letter to invoke Defense Production Act of 1950
- Thailand: Cutting military budget to liberate resources to address COVID-19 pandemic
- Women’s appeal for human security, public health, peace & sustainable development,
- Global weapons freeze campaign
- United States: Defense Spending Reduction Caucus
Support for UN initiative for a global ceasefire
- IPU joint statement
- Bahrain: Parliamentary Group statement
- Parliamentary Forum Small Arms and Light Weapons statement
