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June 5, 2020While the Chemical Weapons Convention bans the use of toxic chemicals in warfare because they do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants, but carves out an exception for their use for "domestic riot control purposes" despite their indiscriminate use against non-violent protestors and those engaged in acts of violence alike.
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June 1, 2020
With its original mission nearing completion, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should increase its support for the discovery and destruction of old chemical weapons.
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June 1, 2020
Russia, China Skip Syrian Chemical Weapons Meeting
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May 6, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping thinking about national security and geopolitics Understanding these changes is crucial to how we—as advocates, analysts, educators, and engaged citizens—respond.
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May 1, 2020
Investigators identified Syria's air force as responsible for March 2017 sarin attacks against rebel-held communities in Syria.
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April 13, 2020An inaugural report released April 8 by the OPCW's new Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) attributes a series of chemical weapons attacks in Syria in March 2017 to the Syrian Air Force. The new OPCW team has a mandate to assign responsibility for chemical attacks identified by the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission reports that were not investigated by the United Nations-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was dissolved in 2017.
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April 1, 2020
New families of chemical agents soon will be explicitly prohibited by the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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March 1, 2020
Russia invokes a rare UN process to question chemical weapons claims in Syria.
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March 1, 2020
U.S. Begins Destroying Last Batch of Sarin
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December 1, 2019
The treaty to prohibit chemical weapons is nearing completion of some of its core goals, but a range of political and compliance challenges threaten the regime.