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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 28. April 2004 / Time Line April 28, 2004
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04/28/2004
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Day grundlagt af Mayors
for Peace 2003.
04/28/2004
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)
- http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/
On 28 April 2004, the United Nations Security Council unanimously
adopted Resolution 1540 (2004) under Chapter VII of the United
Nations Charter which affirms that the proliferation of nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery
constitutes a threat to international peace and security. The
resolution obliges States, inter alia, to refrain from supporting
by any means non-State actors from developing, acquiring,
manufacturing, possessing, transporting, transferring or using
nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their delivery
systems.
Resolution 1540 (2004) imposes binding obligations on all States to
adopt legislation to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons, and their means of delivery, and establish
appropriate domestic controls over related materials to prevent
their illicit trafficking. It also encourages enhanced
international cooperation on such efforts. The resolution affirms
support for the multilateral treaties whose aim is to eliminate or
prevent the proliferation of WMDs and the importance for all States
to implement them fully; it reiterates that none of the obligations
in resolution 1540 (2004) shall conflict with or alter the rights
and obligations of States Parties to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Chemical Weapons
Convention, or the Biological Weapons Convention or alter the
responsibilities of the IAEA and OPCW
04/28/2004
Making women's issues go away
By: Rebecca Traister
If you'd logged onto the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau Web
site in 1999, you would have found a list of more than 25 fact
sheets and statistical reports on topics ranging from "Earning
Differences Between Men and Women" to "Facts About Asian American
and Pacific Islander Women" to "Women's Earnings as Percent of
Men's 1979-1997."
Not anymore. Those fact sheets no longer exist on the Women's
Bureau Web site, and have instead been replaced with a handful of
peppier titles, like "Hot Jobs for the 21st Century" and "20
Leading Occupations for Women." It's just one example of the ways
in which the Bush administration is dismantling or distorting
information on women's issues, from pay equity to reproductive
healthcare, according to "Missing: Information About Women's
Lives," a new report released Wednesday by the National Council for
Research on Women.
You've probably heard about some of the other examples in "Missing"
-- for instance, the time the Centers for Disease Control removed
an online guide to condom use and changed the fact-sheet language
to indicate that studies on condom use were inconclusive, focusing
instead on abstinence. But the power of "Missing" comes not from
its dozens of individual examples, but from the depth and breadth
of its findings about the small ways in which the Bush
administration is draining the well of dependable public scientific
and sociological information.
Released just three days after an estimated 1 million people
gathered in Washington for the March for Women's Lives, "Missing"
exhaustively catalogs the ways in which government information
about women's health, labor and education has been altered, removed
or obfuscated during the Bush administration. "This is really
undermining a nonpartisan legacy of government," said Basch,
referring to a history of reliable dissemination of scientific data
by the federal government. Of concern to NCRW researchers is the
possibility that this morphed or absent information will hurt
future researchers, policymakers and citizens who in the past would
have relied on federal sources of information in their advocacy for
women's equity and access.
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