Programmes

Protection of Civilians

With our partners we work to achieve better protection of civilians by engaging with communities, authorities, and institutions – from the grassroots level to the international – to raise awareness, address harm from conflict, operationalize practical policy changes, and develop shared approaches to people-centred security concerns.

Protection of Civilians

Don’t Buy Into Occupation

PAX is a leading member of the Don’t Buy into Occupation coalition. We investigate investments by European financial institutions in companies that are involved in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We urge financial institutions to take action and divest from companies that continue to facilitate human rights violations.

Business, human rights and conflict

Transformative Justice in Ninewa

With the Transformative Justice program, we support victims and survivors of human rights abuses to participate in inclusive, community-based justice processes - such as women, youth, and minorities - and local organizations, we empower victims to advocate for their rights.

Inclusive Peacebuilding

Stop Blood Coal

In Cesar, Colombia, coalmining by companies Drummond and Prodeco coincided with increasing armed violence, resulting in over 3,100 murders and 59,000 displacements between 1996 and 2006. Since 2011, PAX has been advocating for victims' rights to remedy and accountability for human rights abuses linked to coal mining.

Business, human rights and conflict

FFP Manifesto to advance Peace and Security

As more and more countries are adopting a Feminist Foreign Policy, PAX has developed a Manifesto, calling for 10 critical...

Strengthening Collective Environment Action in Iraq

Iraq grapples with a deepening environmental crisis, characterized by severe water scarcity, rampant air pollution, and accelerating land degradation. Many of these environmental issues are legacies from wars, internal conflicts, corruption, mismanagement and climate change.

Business, human rights and conflict