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	Podcast:		ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
	Episode:		A world free from nuclear weapons: a call to action from Nigeria
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:02
	Publish Date:		2021-05-14 13:01:57
	Description:		As the world grapples with new security challenges, it is pertinent now more than ever for global leaders to uphold the rules and principles of international humanitarian law in ensuring that weapons with catastrophic humanitarian consequences, such as nuclear weapons, are eliminated from the earth. In this post, Fatima Alkali, an Associate Professor of international humanitarian law who currently works in Nile University in Abuja, Nigeria, argues that the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons presents an opportunity to achieve that goal and calls on all States to fulfill their commitment to nuclear disarmament by becoming parties to it.
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