Reports & Policy Briefs

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October 2023

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Briefing Book brief on biological weapons, September 2023

American Society for Microbiology Impact assessment of research on infectious agents, September 2023

WHO Health-Security Interface Technical Advisory Group (HSI-TAG) Report of the annual in-person meeting, 6-7 July 2023

King’s College London Global BioLabs Report 2023, March 2023

UNIDIR Stakeholder Perspectives on the Biological Weapons Convention, contribution with Sean Ekins and Fabio Urbina on ‘A perspective from the pharmaceutical industry’, November 2022.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.6 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October 2022

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Briefing Book brief on biological weapons, September 2022

WHO report Towards a global guidance framework for the responsible use of life sciences: Summary report of consultations on the principles, gaps and challenges of biorisk management, May 2022. Final guidance framework

Written evidence submitted to the Cabinet Office call for evidence on the ‘Biological Security Strategy‘, March 2022. Summary of public response

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.5 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October and November 2021

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Briefing Book brief on biological weapons, September 2021

Open Letter to the WHO and Members of its Executive Board outlining what a credible and thorough origins investigation of Covid-19 should entail, 30 April 2021

Open Letter (French version) calling for a full investigation into the origins of Covid-19, 7 April 2021

Open Letter (French version) calling for a full and unrestricted international forensic investigation into the Origins of Covid-19, 4 March 2021

Written evidence submitted to the UK Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy inquiry on ‘National security machinery‘ February 2021

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Occasional Paper #49 A Guide to Investigating Outbreak Origins: Nature versus the Laboratory, with Richard Pilch, Miles Pomper & Jill Luster, October 2020

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2, No.3  and No.4 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October 2020

Written evidence submitted to the UK Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy inquiry on ‘Biosecurity and national security‘ October 2020

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Briefing Book brief on biological weapons, September 2020

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) report on Compliance and Enforcement in the Biological Weapons Regime, December 2019

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2019/WP.4 submitted by Portugal to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2019

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.6 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October 2019

Written evidence submitted to the UK Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy inquiry on ‘Biosecurity and human health: preparing for emerging infectious diseases and bioweapons’ September 2019

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Briefing Book brief on biological weapons, September 2019

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2018/WP.11 submitted by Georgia to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2018

SIPRI Technical Report on BIO plus X, with Elizabeth Bohm, November 2018

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will’s First Committee Monitor No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.6 contributions on ‘Biological Weapons’, October 2018

Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of Experts Policy Brief Series ‘Revisiting BWC Verification’: Brief 3 Information-sharing and Brief 4 Visits, August 2018

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2017/WP.11 submitted by Portugal to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2017

United Nations Working Paper BWC/CONF.VIII/WP.29 submitted by Germany to the Eighth Review Conference of the BWC in November 2016

Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference Policy Brief Series: Brief 3 21st Century Biodefence: Risks, Trade-Offs & Responsible Science, November 2016

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium Briefing Paper No.52 Increasing Transparency in Biodefence: A 2016 Visit to a German Military Medical Biodefence Facility, November 2016

Bradford Key Points for the BWC Eighth Review Conference, chapter on Article V: Confidence-Building Measures, August 2016

Bradford Key Points for the BWC Eighth Review Conference, chapter on Article VIII: Geneva Protocol Obligations, August 2016

Nuffield Council on Bioethics Background Paper on Dual Use in Biology and Biomedicine , November 2015

Bradford Briefing Paper No.11 on Reviving the Intersessional Process: Achieving Effective Action, July 2015

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium Briefing Paper No.45 on 3D BIO: Declare, Document & Demonstrate, April 2015

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2014/INF.3 submitted by the United Kingdom to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2014

King’s College London Workshop Report on Confidence & Compliance with the BWC, December 2014

King’s College London Policy Brief on Hard to Prove: Compliance with the BWC, August 2013

Bradford Briefing paper No.9 on Moving forward with the Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs), June 2013

Bradford Briefing paper No.3 on How to enable fuller participation in the Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs), July 2012

United Nations Working Paper BWC/CONF.VII/WP.21 submitted by Norway, Switzerland and New Zealand to the Seventh Review Conference of the BWC in December 2011

United Nations Working Paper BWC/CONF.VII/WP.9 submitted by Germany, Norway and Switzerland to the Seventh Review Conference of the BWC in December 2011

Bradford Key Points for the Seventh Review Conference, chapter on Article V: Confidence-Building Measures, September 2011

Bradford Review Conference Paper No.24 on Improving the BWC Confidence-Building Measures Regime, October 2010

London School of Economics Workshop Report on BWC Confidence Building Measures: Preparing for A Comprehensive Review of the CBM mechanism at the Seventh Review Conference, August 2010

United Nations Working Paper  BWC/MSP/2008/WP.6 submitted by Switzerland to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2008

London School of Economics Project Report on Preparing the Ground for the CBM Content Debate, December 2008

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2008/MX/WP.35 submitted by Switzerland to the BWC Meeting of Experts in August 2008

United Nations Working Paper BWC/MSP/2007/MX/WP.10 submitted by Switzerland to the BWC Meeting of States Parties in December 2007

London School of Economics Project Report on National Data Collection Processes for CBM Submissions, December 2007