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The International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) is an
international non-governmental organisation An international non-governmental organization (INGO) is an organization which is independent of government involvement and extends the concept of a non-governmental organization (NGO) to an international scope. NGOs are independent of government ...
headquartered in
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. It was founded in 1988 and seeks "to build and strengthen international legal efforts to ban the use and threat of use of
nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
." Its membership consists of individual lawyers and lawyer's organisations. The current co-presidents of the organisation are Peter Becke

and Takeya Sasaki. The German section of the organisation was co-founded by former German Minister of Justice
Herta Däubler-Gmelin Herta Däubler-Gmelin (; born 12 August 1943) is a German lawyer, academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She curre ...
. IALANA had a central role in the process that sought an advisory ruling on the legality of nuclear arms from the International Court of Justice.Sarah J. Diehl, James Clay Moltz, ''Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation: A Reference Book'' (p. 277), 2002 The organisation has consultative status with the
United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; french: links=no, Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, ) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields ...
.


See also

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International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons ''Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons'ICJ 3] is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that while the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary ...
* Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament *
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It ...


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{{Authority control Anti-nuclear organizations Peace organisations based in Germany Legal advocacy organizations Organizations established in 1988 Organisations based in Berlin