North America

Join Youth Arts New York/Hibakusha Stories, ICAN and NYCAN for the inaugural event of  Nuclear Ban Week NY The New Manhattan Project: A Concert for Nuclear Abolition Monday, November 27, 7:30 p.m. The Japan Society, 333 East 47th St., New York, NY…

We are living in what feels like a full-action reality show, jumping from conflict to conflict. News coverage is 24/7, with crises from Iraq to Ukraine and now Israel and Palestine. Some media are already working on the next conflict…

As part of World Disarmament Week which takes place from October 24 to 30, we researched the different Canadian political parties to check which ones promote non-violence. In Canada, the only federal political party to openly promote nonviolence as a…

Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are some of the most frightening and destructive types of extreme weather. Predicting them has been notoriously difficult for forecasters who have been unable to fully understand why some tropical storms or tropical depressions that seem commonplace can suddenly turn…

Wave upon wave of Israeli aircraft and missiles have been battering the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. This violence — the most brutal for decades — has already expended more firepower than the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and has…

Just after another mass shooting by another veteran, the Washington Post reports: “A tiny fraction, only about 5% of people attempting suicide, use a gun. But guns are deadly almost every time, and so end up accounting for over half of suicide…

Under the title “Peace and Protest: Past and Present”, the programme includes 18 panels and two plenary sessions, as well as exhibitions by various peace organisations and a publications fair. Among the topics to be discussed are current issues such…

We were an unlikely pair. I was an American writer, peace activist and grandmother. Mansoor was a 21-year-old single man wanted by the Taliban in his home country of Afghanistan. But over 14 months, communicating only through email, text messages…

It will be convened by Pepe Mujica from Uruguay and will be joined by social, trade union, political and human rights movements from all over the continent. It will take place from 7 to 9 December in the Brazilian city.…

When I told my grandmother that I was going to visit Europe for the first time, she exploded, “Oy vey!” Raising her voice, she exclaimed: “There’s nothing there! NOTHING! Just poverty and filth.” Collecting herself, she added: “You like foreign…