The signatories of the Dutch National Action Plan 1325 gathered at the Ministry of Defense for an event focused on Women, Men, Peace & Security.
A multitude of different uncrewed aerial systems, also known as drones, are increasingly taking a dominant role in armed conflicts all over the world. Armed drones gained a notorious status as they were used to track and kill suspected militants in clandestine operations by the United States, with many civilian casualties. But military drone deployment […]
During the Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy Conference, organised by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PAX led discussions on how Feminist Foreign Policy should aim to advance peace and security.
A blog report on a session involving the audience discussing how to centre human security, demilitarization, and disbarment in FFP implementation during the Feminist Foreign Policy Community Festival
Over the last decade, the demand for military drones in Africa has significantly been on the rise, driven by a growing number of internal conflicts and counter-terrorism operations. These new instruments of remote warfare provide States but also armed groups with more precise, cheap and effective means to carry out operations. Initially driven by the […]
Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the necessary decision-making in environmental governance and peacebuilding structures. Nonetheless, women activists are fashioning innovative ways to turn around the negative impacts of conflict linked-environmental damage and climate risks impacting their […]
Day 33 of the war Vienna hosts an OSCE Human Dimension meeting, which the Russian representative refuses to attend for not having been involved in the preparations, and which covers in contrast all the spectrum from the [theoretical] way things ‘should be’ according to international humanitarian/human rights law and the [real] way things are in […]
Turkish Drones Join Ethiopia’s war, Satellite Imagery Confirms For months rumors have been circulating that Turkish Bayraktar TB-2 armed drones are being deployed by the Ethiopian government in their fight against the Tigray Defence Forces, an armed resistance group that took up weapons in 2020. In December 2021, the New York Times quoted anonymous Western […]
A humble voice of justice for victims of toxic remnants of war With great sadness we learned of the passing of Dr. Jawad Al Ali, an Iraqi oncologist who worked in the Basra Teaching Hospital and has been a leading voice in the long-standing debate over the use of depleted uranium munitions (DU) during the […]
The summer of 2021 witnessed how water security is at the core of the debate on the climate crisis in Iraq. The lack of rain left a trail of social and economic despair in the agricultural areas, as harvests failed, instilling fear and uncertainty in farming communities on what the future may hold. Iraqi citizens […]