The exorbitant increase in global military spending recorded in 2025, reaching US$2.8 trillion, highlights the extreme importance of the report released by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), PREMEDITATED: NUCLEAR WEAPONS SPENDING IN 2025, which makes it possible to observe, in isolation, the increase in the budget allocated to nuclear weapons, which reached US$119 billion in spending last year.

In the first edition of the series “After the War: Stories of Those Who Lived Through It,” we bring the stories of Aki Ra, who experienced the impacts of landmines firsthand; Ahmed Ali, and how his life and family were profoundly affected by cluster munitions; and little Yoko Moriwaki, a 13-year-old girl whose life was cut short by the detonation of an atomic bomb. These experiences reveal how war remains present in the lives of survivors even after the end of armed conflicts

On April 27, the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) began at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York, at a time of international tension marked by military escalations involving nuclear powers in violent conflicts around the world and reports of serious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The discussions will continue until May 22, and several civil society organizations have em