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URGE WALMART TO PAY UP TO FACTORY FIRE VICTIMS TAKE ACTION ON BLACK FRIDAY Dear friends, The families of the 112 garment workers killed in the horrific Tazreen Fashions factory fire in Bangladesh are still waiting for Walmart to pay…

Dear Tony,Mohammad Rubel, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi man, was trafficked from his home in Bangladesh to a Malaysian palm oil plantation. He traveled on a dangerous ocean journey during which dozens died, through a trafficking camp in the jungle where traffickers…

53 financial institutions prohibit or limit investments in nuclear weapon producers, shows Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a report published today by Dutch peace organization PAX. This is a 150% increase compared to last year’s report. The increase illustrates the…

Canada will take 25,000 Syrian refugees In recent months, International Humanist Network members were shocked by the scale of the refugee crisis and by the slow answer of governments to provide assistance to refugees. According to the UNHCR (UN Refugee…

Indonesian haze: No oil palms on peat! SIGN HERE Dear friends of the rain forests, Unbelievable, while ongoing fires are burning in peatlands, the Government of Indonesia allowed a company (Pt PEAK) to destroy a valuable peat dome. Emissions from…

As Egyptian autocrat General Sisi arrives in London, Campaign Against Arms Trade has called for the UK government to end arms sales to his regime and stop the political support that bolsters it. Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade…

CALL TO ACTION FROM THE ROME PEACE CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26th, 2015 We, the participants attending the International Conference Against War and For a Neutral Italy and an Independent Europe held in Rome on October 26, 2015, on the initiative of…

We, anti-nuclear activists gathered from all over France, meeting on 23-25 October on the initiative of ACDN (Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement Nucléaire) wish to address with the activists and organisations that are anti-nuclear, environmentalist and humanitarian, and to…

The United States Air Force has scheduled a launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for the early morning hours of October 21. This will be the fifth test of a Minuteman III ICBM in 2015. The target of…

  Nuclear Deterrence An Ethical Perspective A new publication from the Caritas in Veritate Foundation  The Caritas in Veritate Foundation is pleased to present our sixth working paper, wherein we explore the ethics of nuclear weapon possession and examine, in…