In Geneva, this week and next, the UN General Assembly’s Open Ended Working Group to take forward proposals for multilateral disarmament is meeting. While the name is a bit of a mouthful, the working group, or OEWG as many have initialized it, is actually a pretty cool thing. By Susi Snyder
In a National Geographic documentary on the cold war, former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers broke the cone of silence surrounding the U.S. nuclear weapons stored at the Volkel air base in the Netherlands. By Susi Snyder
This week will see the conclusion of a series of high level workshops focused on reclaiming the protection of civilians under International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Since 2009, and at a series of regional workshops, states, international agencies and civil society have been discussing and identifying practical measures that may be taken by both military and […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l51TKJ7FUto?feature=player_embedded] To launch the international Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the founders of this initiative convened a day-long conference in London for interested NGOs. IKV Pax Christi was present and provided, together with 65 other campaigners from 30 NGOs, input and guidance on an initial work plan that will chart the way forward for the new campaign.
IKV Pax Christi strongly condemns the assassination of Jalal Dhiab, director of the ‘Ansar al-Huriyya’ association, which took place in al-Zubayr, Basra province, on Friday 26 April.
For the second year in a row, IKV Pax Christi is organizing the Nuclear Diplomacy Crash Course. The No Nukes team will train a group of students with a strong interest in international security dialogue to become lobbyists for a nuclear weapons free world.
The British newspaper The Guardian recently published an article on IKV Pax Christi’s report ‘In a state of uncertainty’ on Depleted Uranium in Iraq. The aim of the report is to provide greater clarity on the impact that the use of Depleted Uranium has had on Iraqi society.
Naima McClean, an energetic poet and performer from South Africa encouraged an audience of hundreds to shout “hero, hero, hero” at ten o’ clock in the morning. If Emma Goldman was still alive she would laugh and see we’ve all understood her message: If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution. Yes, we […]
A group of aid agencies that worked in Sudan during the civil war, reporting together as the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS), have called for an investigation into the role played by a consortium of oil companies in the conflict and their possible complicity in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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