Pax Christi International is in favour of recognition of the state of Palestine and a ban on settlements. Dutch peace organisation PAX is member of Pax Christi International and is present at it annual meeting, this year held in Bethlehem.
A total of 40 civil society organizations signed a letter initiated by PAX and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect requesting government’s active participation at the open debate of the UN Security Council on “Small Arms: The Human Cost of Illicit Transfer, Destabilizing Accumulation and Misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons” on 13 May 2015.
PAX Iraq team has launched the website weareallcitizens.org today! This website tells you stories and shows you images, videos and publications produced by the Kulluna Muwatinun (We are All Citizens) programme.
Despite the sectarian divides that cut across Iraqi society, there are also voices who come with a message of tolerance and peace. Those forces which plead for an inclusive society come amongst others from young people who are inspired by the PAX programme ‘We are all citizens’.
From the 13th to the 17th of April around 120 states will come together during the multilateral meeting of the Convention of Conventional Weapons at the UN in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons systems, so called killer robots. PAX, co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign, is confident that the meeting will form the basis for a worldwide ban on fully autonomous weapons.
The international community must urgently change its approach to Gaza and deliver on promises of reconstruction, 46 agencies said today in a new report on the lack of progress since last year’s conflict. Peace organisation PAX is under the name United Civilians for Peace, Netherlands, one of the signatories.
How can disarmament and arms control contribute to the prevention of mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing? In a new publication PAX and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect address the above question and provides suggestions for how civil society can promote humanitarian disarmament.
Not only energy companies but also ports and coal terminals that transship Colombian blood coal should seek redress from the Drummond and Prodeco coal mines, says PAX. These mining companies should make an effort to acknowledge and compensate the thousands of victims of paramilitary violence around their mines during the period 1996-2006, and actively combat current human rights violations.
Militias who fought and toppled the Khaddafi regime in 2011 have now increasingly turned on each other in Libya, seemingly along tribal lines. However, while most international observers tend to view the tribal system as one of the main drivers of the conflict, many Libyans rather see the tribes as the key to peace, stability […]
While Iraq is still recovering from the environmental impact of both Gulf wars, it now faces new environmental problems caused by the current conflict against the Islamic State (IS). Since the uprising began in June 2014, fierce battles have taken place in and around cities and industrial areas, affecting the already precarious environmental situation. By […]
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