Treaty to prohibit Nuclear Weapons reaches important milestone

In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January 2021, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday. (Eight countries in the South Pacific have ratified the agreement and two have accessioned, but these do not include Tonga.)