Peace and Disarmament

The historic US nuclear testing site is taking its case for disarmament to the International Court of Justice. Peter Weiss January 26, 2015 The Baker nuclear test, part of Operation Crossroads, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls Islands, July 25,…

Call to support the start of multilateral nuclear disarmament deliberations and negotiations January 27, Geneva Ambassador Lomonaco of Mexico, the new President of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, today submitted a draft Program of Work (WP 584) with a…

Shiva Shankar relayed the news on his email list that is largely related to India’s Dalit the matter of Kathy Kelly, who says: “The Bureau of Prisons contacted me today, assigning me a prison number and a new address: for…

Iran Review’s Exclusive Interview with Jan Oberg By: Kourosh Ziabari MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 The First International Conference on World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE) held in Tehran on December 9-10 last year following the endorsement of President Hassan Rouhani’s…

Under this name, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an international seminar, gathering together diverse views of nuclear disarmament experts in the fields of: nuclear-weapon-free zones; the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); the relationship between human security and international humanitarian law;…

The question who shot down the Malaysian Airlines plane en-route to the far east from Holland on the 17th of July is a question that has yet to be answered.  Despite the black boxes having been sent to the UK,…

After the recent and sad events in Paris, Convergence of Cultures would once again like to make a call to the world’s population to protect human values beyond all differences. This is a call to preserve and strengthen what has…

Human Wrongs Watch With the deadline for the unconditional surrender of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) having passed on 2 January, and no significant additional surrenders of FDLR combatants registered since June, the United Nations Stabilization…

Pakistan authorities repatriated on Monday 29 December, 2014, a 12-year-old girl who lives in Indian-administered Kashmir, three days after she strayed into Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from across what’s termed the Line of Control (LoC). This was Nasreen Bibi,…

We have just concluded an intense year for us all at Pressenza: a year of great change, growth and learning. And, as at the end of every year, we take the opportunity to analyse, reflect and project. My eyes have…