Active campaigner with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to promote nuclear disarmament and negotiate the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Erin was actively involved in the humanitarian initiative leading up to the negotiations and was a key member of ICAN's negotiating team focusing on the positive obligations found in Articles 6 and 7 in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

2017 Nobel Peace Prize

Erin Hunt is the Program Manager at Mines Action Canada. She has been working in humanitarian disarmament in various capacities since 2006 and doing public education on the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines since 2003.  
 
She contributes to the work of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the Cluster Munition Coalition, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.  Erin was a member of the civil society negotiating team during the 2017 process to negotiate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons with the Nobel Peace Laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. She can speak about gender and disarmament, and Canadian policies on disarmament issues more broadly.

Erin has a master’s degree in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University.

Disarmament

Landmines

Cluster Munitions

Nuclear Weapons

Civil Society Campaigning

Indiscrimiate weapons

Explosive weapons 

Assistance to victims of armed conflict

Killer robots

English

How Canada can eliminate lethal barriers to development

Why ‘killer robots’ are neither feminist nor ethical

Saudi Arabia Arms Sales and Human Rights

Peace Prize: Reflections on a Nobel year

Atomic bomb survivors bring message of peace, hope to Halifax

Sustaining Destruction: Nuclear Weapons and the Sustainable Development Goals

US Reacts to Russia Nukes Announcement

As UN General Assembly kicks off, all eyes on Canada’s disarmament stance

By sitting out nuclear weapons meeting, Canada backtracks on its commitment to peace

Canadian firms invested in US cluster bomb makers, report says

Munitions researcher on ‘rain of steel’: Monitoring cluster bombs in Syria and the human toll, part one

Munitions researcher on ‘rain of steel’: Monitoring cluster bombs in Syria and the human toll, part two

Erin Hunt on landmines, cluster munitions and Canadian diplomacy

To this day, Nagasaki survivor’s story matters

John Baird to travel to Laos as  Canada restarts funding to clear cluster bombs

MPs need courage in face of cluster munitions

Ignominious Anniversary: Remembering Hiroshima

The PANEL

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Statement

Statement on Victim Assistance

Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions; a shared responsibility

Statement on Weapons Reviews

Equal Basis Report Launch

Statement on Autonomous Weapons Systems

Program Manager

Mines Action Canada and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have serious concerns about autonomous weapons and their ability to apply international humanitarian law concerning proportionality.

Killer Robots &amp; Proportionality

Our Erin Hunt recaps Day 2 of the Convention on Conventional Weapons Review Conference.

CCW Review Conference Day 2

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