Press Releases

Statement by Nils Muižnieks, COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Strasbourg, 21 March 2016 – Now that the EU Turkey deal has been reached, the utmost care should be given to its implementation in order to dispel a number…

DiEM25 breaks ground in Italy with its first Assembly to promote its ‘Transparency in Europe Now!’ campaign – a “prerequisite to Europe’s democratisation” DiEM25, the Democracy in Europe Movement, inaugurated on the 9th of February in Berlin, will hold its…

Reparations in the Americas Colonialism Reparation welcomes the support given by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to the request for reparations for the genocide of the native peoples and the slavery of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)…

Proclamation Ceremony of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War Powerful and Ground-Breaking Tool to Attain Humanity’s Goal, Peace Seoul, Republic of Korea – A flurry of anticipation filled the room of over 1,000 internationally-renowned figures including heads of…

In the latest attack on free speech in Turkey, three academics who signed a peace petition in January 2016 have been jailed by an Istanbul court on suspicion of “making terrorist propaganda,” Human Rights Watch said today. The three were…

Invitation to watch the live broadcast of the Proclamation of Declaration of the International Convention for Cessation of War To Whom It May Concern: It is an email from the Hong Kong office of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of…

The PhD community at the University of Sheffield Politics department expresses its full support and solidarity to the international campaign launched by Amnesty International demanding truth and justice for Giulio Regeni’s murder.

Everybody Turn Out for a Day of Peace and Solidarity in New York By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/everybody-turn-out-day-peace-and-solidarity-new-york What happens when there are endless wars accompanied by militarized policing, spreading racism, erosion of civil rights, and concentration of wealth, but the…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been clamping down methodically on the media in Turkey for years, first as prime minister and now as president. The persecution of journalists across the political spectrum is growing in ferocity and includes arrests, threats and…

Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award from China, Japan, and India came together last week to participate in a seminar in Kathmandu, Nepal, where they shared their expertise and supported 2010 Laureate Shrikrishna Upadhyay of SAPPROS-Nepal in the ‘Make Nepal Green’ initiative. The initiative, launched…