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Global majority leads the way on nuclear disarmament: time to reflect that reality here
It is the South that has forged the path towards banning the bomb, and people of colour who have paid the greatest price from nuclear testing, writes RACHEL EARLINGTON, of CND

IN THE fight for global nuclear disarmament — which has never been more necessary — it is important that our movement mobilises and unifies all sections of society, together with the international community that overwhelmingly wants peace and disarmament.  

Whether through the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or nuclear weapons-free zones, it’s the states and peoples of the global South who have created the treaty architecture for a nuclear weapons-free world. 

It’s high time that states — and movements — from the global North recognise that and put the communities most affected front and centre of their campaigns and priorities.

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