Nuclear Weapons, Violation of Right to Life

Posted: 1st April 2022

Nuclear Free Local Authorities have this week backed a challenge to the British Government’s nuclear weapons policies in the UN Human Rights Council. The NFLA has joined with international partners in charging that the UK Government’s policy of retaining, and reserving the right to use, a nuclear weapons arsenal is in violation of the Right to Life, a right enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and PoliticalRights (ICCPR), to which the UK is a signatory. The NFLA is a partner member of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. NFLA 30th March 2022  https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/nuclear-free-local-authorities-back-international-challenge-to-uk-nuclear-weapons-policies-in-un-human-rights-council/