President Hamid Karzai has announced the transfer of nationwide security from NATO to Afghan control, a major milestone as the US-led war effort winds down after 12 years. Shortly before Karzai’s speech at a handover ceremony, the location of which had been kept a secret,…
The United Nations announced Monday that 170 peacekeepers from Fiji will join the UN’s Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) stationed on the Israel- Syria border by the end of the month. They will be replacing Austrian forces who have pulled out of the area following an…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria and that supplying either side with weapons is not helpful. A day after President Obama announced the US would be expanding military assistance to Syrian rebels, the UN chief…
For years here at TakePart, we’ve covered the push by the folks at Global Zero to help rid our world of dangerous nuclear weapons. They’ve recently turned up the heat on the Obama Administration to finally act and begin multinational talks with Russia and other…
The use of the term “peace conference” to describe the meeting of world leaders in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland marks a change in tone compared to interviews he gave over the weekend. It comes after several leading figures, from London Mayor Boris Johnson to Russian…
How Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rouhani, who has been elected president of Iran will proceed once he takes office is not yet clear, but one of his former aides on the nuclear file, Hossein Mousavian, recently highlighted a proposal that Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s…
Building on successful campaigns to ban land mines and control the sale of conventional weapons, representatives of antiwar movements and a host of other civil society organizations meeting at the United Nations on June 6 turned their attention to a new menace whose development they…
Abir Kopty’s month started out with a police interrogation. The 37-year-old Palestinian activist and blogger born in Nazareth was summoned by the Israeli police June 2 and went in for questioning in Northern Israel the next day. The reason? Kopty wrote a blog post last…
A Buddhist monk intent on bringing his campaign for nuclear disarmament to the G8 leaders has arrived in Enniskillen after walking more than 80 miles from Belfast. Toyoshige Sekiguchi, from Japan, has spent the last nine days striding westward to Co Fermanagh carrying a banner…
The huge recent win of a new global Arms Trade Treaty shows that when people take injustice personally, it can grow into a powerful force for change. In Amnesty’s WIRE May/June issue, read interviews with people who have been arrested just for speaking their minds,…
Vulnerable states decry slow progress at Bonn climate talks | Trust.org
Two weeks of U.N.-led climate talks in Bonn ended on Friday in an atmosphere of…
Report finds global pollution on a ‘dangerous trajectory’ | The Boston Globe
Emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 billion tons in…
Colombia Minister: Peace Deal Would Open Huge Areas to Oil Exploration | WSJ.com
The Colombian Deputy Energy Minister said Friday that a hoped-for peace deal with Marxist rebels…
Anti-drone activists marching across Iowa | Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Plans to pilot lethal drone strikes from Des Moines don’t show signs of faltering, but…
Venezuelan Parliament passes law on disarmament | El Universal
In a regular meeting and by unanimity, the Venezuelan Parliament passed on Tuesday a bill…
‘Those silly things are still there’: US nukes stored in Netherlands | RT News
Around 22 US nuclear weapons are still being stored in the Netherlands, former Dutch Prime…
