Interview with Tim Wright, Treaty Coordinator, ICAN
Channel: Pressenza español
Date: 2019-07-28

Tim Wright is the Treaty Coordinator of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). For over a decade, he has represented the campaign at review meetings of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. He helped coordinate ICAN’s participation in the three conferences on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons in 2013 and 2014, and in the UN open-ended working group on nuclear disarmament in 2016.
We spoke to Tim about the development of ICAN, its appeal to young people, the impact of nuclear weapons in Oceania and the pacific and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.