The Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament. Citizens United Against an Existential Threat

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Publication date:

May 2024

At the current time, the world is facing an unprecedented nuclear threat, a situation of the greatest tension since the Second World War. Nuclear weapons, together with the climate crisis, are two connected realities which influence each other and which constitute an existential threat to life and the planet, as has been evidenced by a plethora of research. In the face of this threat, it is urgent to unite efforts to affirm the effective application of the treaties and make nuclear deterrence a thing of the past.

Armed conflicts

Human Rights

World Government

Author

Maribel

Hernández Sánchez

She is a journalist and researcher, specialising in human rights, disarmament and peace communication. She holds a degree in Journalism, a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Social Welfare and Inequalities from the Universidad de Alicante and postgraduate degrees in Culture of Peace and Conflict and Peace Communication from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She coordinates the Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament and is a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF Spain, for which she has carried out studies on gender and nuclear weapons. Her journalistic work has been published mainly in eldiario.es and Público.