Palestine has received membership in the UN’s education, science and culture body after 107 of the 173 attending member states voted for it, with 14 against. The US objected to the move and threatened to curb its donations to the organization. Two thirds of the delegates present and voting had to support the motion for [...]
The world’s nuclear powers are planning to spend hundreds of billions of pounds modernising and upgrading weapons warheads and delivery systems over the next decade, according to an authoritative report published on Monday. Despite government budget pressures and international rhetoric about disarmament, evidence points to a new and dangerous “era of nuclear weapons”, the report [...]
Nato has all but ruled out the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone in Syria after the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, warned that any western intervention would cause an “earthquake” that would “burn the whole region”. Despite the success of its Libya mission, which formally ends on Monday, Nato officials made it clear there was [...]
The world’s seven billionth baby has been born in a packed government-run hospital in the Philippines. Weighing 2.5kg 5.5lb, Danica May Camacho was chosen by the United Nations to be one of several children around the world who will symbolically represent the global population milestone. For more on this story, visit: World’s ‘seven billionth baby’ [...]
The UN Secretary-General has noted that the UN, governments and civil society all have a role to play in nuclear disarmament. Publications by one arm of the UN show that there is also a role for children and youth. Disarmament Week, a United Nations (UN) week of observance held every year from October 24-30, kicked [...]
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the strident anti-communist President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, met with his Soviet counterpart, the Secretary General of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev. Instead of an exchange of invectives, they stunned the world with news that the leaders aimed to eliminate [...]
Focusing exclusively on military solutions to the LRA only deals with one piece of the problem: it’s no coincidence that the LRA preys on villages in the most remote and underdeveloped areas of central Africa.
MADRID — Comments by former activists linked to ETA, the Basque separatist group, suggest that much work remains in order to translate ETA’s recent pledge to end its violent struggle for independence into a full-fledged peace agreement with the next government in Madrid. Arnaldo Otegi, the former leader of the Batasuna party, which was declared [...]
(Reuters) – Libya is plunging into a cycle of tribal violence and retribution which, if left unchecked, could undermine the authority of its new leaders, spur new forms of insurgency and throw the country back into chaos. More than a week after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, anger is on the boil again with what [...]
Eighteen co-defendants representing Veterans for Peace and other long-time peace activists were sentenced today in DC Superior Court for arrests at the White House on Saturday, March 19, 2011. They were found guilty of Failure to Obey and of Blocking and Incommoding, and each has to pay $50 plus $100 to the Victims of Violent [...]
