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Nuclear policies of North Korea and Iceland challenged in the UN Human Rights Committee

Youth Fusion joined with Basel Peace Office and other peace and disarmament organisations in submissions made on January 4 to the United Nation Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) challenging the nuclear weapons policies of North Korea and Iceland as being in violation of the Right to Life, a core human right codified in the International Covenant on […]

Nuclear disarmament & SDGs

The last article of this series deals with the important connection between nuclear disarmament and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030. This relationship is highly relevant because both topics can only be achieved on a mutual basis, i.e. without agreeing on nuclear disarmament, Agenda 2030 is incomplete. At the same time, […]

Human Rights & Nuclear Disarmament

This is the second of three consecutive articles which highlight the interdependencies of some of the most urgent topics of the 21st century, of which are; Human Rights, Agenda 2030 and nuclear disarmament. Today, we focus on the relationship between Human Rights and nuclear disarmament. As we do so, we pay special attention to General […]

SDGs & Human Rights

This article will be the first of three consecutive articles that, all together, highlight the most important challenges in the 21st century, and also various perspectives on how to link them. This article focuses on the connections between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Human Rights. The second article will focus on the […]

Youth, Nuclear Weapons and Human Rights

On UN Human Rights Day, 10 December 2020, students, young professionals and young activists from around the world joined together to launch Youth Fusion, a new platform for youth-led actions and initiatives to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world. The connection with Human Rights Day was not arbitrary.  In 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee in General Comment 36 affirmed that the […]

Youth Fusion Launch

December 10 is UN Human Rights Day. The UN has affirmed that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would violate the Right to Life, and that their is an obligation to eliminate nuclear weapons globally. To commemorate this day and to launch our new website and programs, the Youth Fusion Coordinating Team has prepared […]

Nominations open for the PACEY Plus Award

The Basel Peace Office and the Office of Cantonal and Urban Development (Department of Presidential Affairs, Canton of Basel-Stadt) invite nominations for the 2021 Basel PACEY Plus Award. Two prizes of €5000 Euro each will be awarded to exemplary youth projects or youth initiatives to advance peace, climate protection and disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament. One […]

Launch of Youth Fusion: new platform and youth actions for nuclear abolition

Youth around the world are standing up for peace and nuclear disarmament, and taking action in innovative ways that are making a difference. The Youth Working Group of Abolition 2000 global network to eliminate nuclear weapons builds cooperation amongst these youth actions, brings youth voices into key UN and other disarmament processes, and facilitates inter-generational […]