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ICAN statement to the 79th session of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly

Statement by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to the 79th session of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly Delivered by Seth Shelden, General Counsel and United Nations Liaison, ICAN 16 October 2024 Excellencies, distinguished delegates,…

Photos: 3rd World March in Dhaka Bangladesh

Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University, Bangladesh’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Latif have endorsed the 3rd World March while a Courtesy Visit was made this after noon (17.10.2024) Make Your Sign for Peace & Nonviolence Campaign was done throughout the day (17.10.2024)…

Take seriously the global risk at this moment

The fear of World War III is becoming more pronounced in contemporary times due to the complexity of global political, economic, and military forces. In particular, the geopolitical crisis in Europe, the China-Taiwan tensions, the North Korea-South Korea Tensions, the…

Abortion Is A Fundamental Human Rights Issue

The right to abortion is a human rights issue that no government agency, courts, local and state legislators, or anyone else has the right to violate or impede in any shape or form. It is a fundamental right that every…

Air Force Academy Grad Deconstructs a Military Mindset

Somewhere around the age of 20, I sat in a large auditorium at the United States Air Force Academy with a thousand other cadets and cheered at footage of real drone strikes on real people, laughing along with everyone else as we…

Communal Harmony in Bangladesh must be maintained

Bangladesh is a country of multi-ethnic culture where people belonging to different religious, racial, cultural, and lingual identities live together harmoniously. Religious harmony has existed in Bengali culture for thousands of years. In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, the Hindus continue to remain…

Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its… pic.twitter.com/YVXwnwVBQO…

25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024

The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF), which takes place annually at Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum Cinema and globally including Berlin is one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024”. The selection was made by the…

Open letter from Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis to the judges of the International Criminal Court

On October 7, Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis appealed to the International Criminal Court to do its duty. To uphold international law by prosecuting self-evident war crimes in Israel-Palestine, lest genocide becomes normalised across the world. Dear judges of the…

A Year Of Reckoning

The year since Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliation have demonstrated once again that neither has learned anything from decades of horrific violence as they continue to miscalculate each other’s intentions and resolve By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir…

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