Three Minutes to Midnight (Swiss Stories 2016, by Mark Henley) - Swiss Press Award
Mark Henley
Hiroyuki Yamamoto deputy representative of the Japanese delegation during discussions following the end of the meeting, shortly before Japan ws due to take over the presdiency of the CD. The following day a Japanese government official addressed the conference:
"It is regrettable that this distinguished body, which produced the Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC), Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
(CTBT), remains mired in an 18-year standstill. In order to meet expectations of the people
worldwide for a safer world free of nuclear weapons,
.....As the only country ever to have suffered nuclear bombings, Japan knows from its own
experience the catastrophic humanitarian consequences from the use of nuclear weapons."
Conference on Disarmament. Year 35, 2014 Session 1, Plenary meeting 1308. Presidency of Italy
Le Temps
2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2016
Mark Henley
Impressions from the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The 65 member states have been unable to reach a new agreement since 1996. For nearly four years of photographic documentation, from 2011 to 2015, this deadlock has persisted. The UN Conference on Disarmament, which also includes North Korea, criticized for its nuclear testing, is a chamber of words, not deeds.
