FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon has endorsed the Scottish Women’s Covenant on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which enters into force on January 22 as the first nuclear disarmament treaty to acknowledge that women are disproportionately affected by nuclear weapons and insists that their voices must be heard within disarmament negotiations. The covenant, initiated by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, is founded on the knowledge that the risks to women’s health and reproductive capacity from ionising radiation are greater than for men, while current power structures mean that women are routinely excluded from nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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