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ICAN’s key messages for governments

The First Committee on disarmament of the UN General Assembly opened for general debate from October 7 until the end of next week, where governments will be exchanging views about a range of disarmament issues, including nuclear weapons. Following the…

Australia: letter to Julie Bishop on nuclear disarmament

PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT HUMAN SURVIVAL PROJECT ATTN JULIE BISHOP, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS CC: TANYA PLIBERSEK; ANTHONY ALBANESE;  SENATOR SCOTT LUDLUM; DFAT; AUSTRALIAN UN MISSION RE: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT RESOLUTIONS IN FIRST COMMITTEE Dear Julie Bishop: I wish to draw your attention to three…

Anna Polo in Greece, helping to illuminate the darkness

Anna has been engaged for many years in the areas of peace and nonviolence, coordinating a commission on these subjects for the European Region of the Humanist International (at the kick off meeting in 2003 in Prague and presenting the…

Militarization of children in the Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic soldiers have reportedly started touring elementary schools nationwide in an effort to introduce students to military life. Children from the age of 10 are being familiarized with and encouraged to play with machine guns. These terrifying…

“Einstein’s definition of insanity”: Father of slain reporter on GOP candidates’ gun control remarks

As the United States experiences more than one mass shooting per day, the issue of gun regulation is emerging as a hot topic on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. As Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed to curb gun…

Don’t buy flowers for us, buy bikes for poorer kids…

Bikes from Heaven Don’t buy flowers for us, buy bikes for poorer kids… This was the admonition prior to Jacky Andrews funereal from the Andrews family, and Jacky indeed was an ordinary – well, you know, no Nobel Prize or…

EuroMarches 2015 – day 7 – Barcelona-Andorra-Toulouse

On this day another bus joined the March. In Seo de Urgel EuroMarches delivered a letter to the Archbishop, Co-Prince of Andorra, a meeting was then held with the unions, who were in their election day and, finally, there was…

Nato’s bombs fall like confetti, not containing conflict but spreading it

Syria, Isis, Iraq … there are no easy solutions. But killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and elsewhere draws more people into insurgencies By George Monbiot for The Guardian ‘The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical…

Solar powered flat-pack emergency shelters from IKEA

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing – writes Lori Zimmer for Inhabitat. “IKEA has just turned its flat pack sensibilities from the urban apartment to the global village by unveiling a comfortable, solar-powered shelter that…

Japan – Philippines: Bridge for Peace

Writer and Green Pioneer Konomi Kikuchi writes from Patagonia: Congratulations! Bridges to Peace was covered by NHK world. This organization was founded by our friend, Naoko Jin in order to build a bridge for peace by delivering messages from Japanese…

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