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Nuclear weapon ban treaty – the only way forward
Last year, the UN General Assembly approved the formation of an Open Ended Working Group on the subject of “Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations”. Work started in February and will finish in August. In the first sessions a range…
Miami International Independent Film Festival selects Silo – a Spiritual path
SILO A SPIRITUAL PATH continues to gain momentum in April receiving an Official Selection at the Miami International Independent Film Festival. This is a privately screened event that runs every month and is evaluated by an international team of experts…
ICAN – G7 summit wholly inadequate
Alice Slater writes: Something to think about as we make our individual responses and organizational responses to the wholly inadequate G7 that came out of Hiroshima which failed to mention meaningful measures for nuclear disarmament or the upcoming UN meeting…
SILO – A Spiritual Path to be shown at Cannes Marché du Film 2016
SILO A SPIRITUAL PATH will be shown at the Cannes Marché du Film 2016 Doc Corner Program on May 12. This particular program is the professional convention of the Marché du Film that is exclusively dedicated to featuring documentary films.…
How we can make our vision of a world without nuclear weapons a reality
This piece by President Barack Obama of the United States, below, was published in the Washington Post on March 30th, shortly before a gathering of dozens of world leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit which attempted to tackle the subject…
Refugee Crisis 2016: mass deportations and resettlement efforts by social organizations
On their own initiative, social organisations both inside and outside Greece are attempting to overcome the confusion and the violations of international treaties caused by the joint statement of 28 EU leaders with Turkey on the 18th of March 2016.…
The Marshall Islands vs the world’s nuclear powers: questions and answers
From the 7th to the 16th of March at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands (population 53,000) presented its preliminary arguments in cases brought against the United Kingdom (population 63 million),…
Another kind of Nuclear Security Summit: The Marshall Islands vs. the Nuclear-Armed States
By Jacqueline Cabasso The recent Nuclear Security Summit hosted by President Obama in Washington, DC generated a goodly amount of hype, including some well-deserved criticism of its narrow focus on securing civilian highly enriched uranium (HEU) and other modest, voluntary…
China: activists get years of prison for supporting HK’s Occupy protests
On April 8, 2016, reporter Karen Cheung writing on Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) website announced the jailing of four Guangzhou (just over the border from Hong Kong-Shenzhen) activists facing jail terms for inciting subversion of state power. All they…
Bangladesh’s freedoms under attack
“This week, another humanist blogger in Bangladesh, law student Nazimuddin Samad, was killed on the streets of Dhaka by religious extremists for daring to criticize harmful religious beliefs, stand up for the rights of religious minorities, and promote a secular…
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