International

Speaking from Tonga on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a “global SOS,” urging governments to increase climate action to “Save Our Seas.” By: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Guterres called for international leaders to slash global greenhouse gas emissions, rapidly phase…

The International Day Against Nuclear Tests, celebrated annually on August 29th, is a date that has important symbolic weight in the fight for world peace and the preservation of humanity. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009, the…

Acceptance of China’s initiative to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons under an international treaty. Until now, China has repeatedly stressed that it develops and deploys nuclear weapons only for defensive purposes. At the second preparatory meeting of the…

Today an Israeli air strike on a school building sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza city has killed more than 90 people. According to many experts this strike shows that Israel has no desire to reach a ceasefire or end the…

By Douglas Cardoso* 79 years ago, in the middle of the Japanese summer, on a Monday morning in Hiroshima and on a Thursday almost at noon in Nagasaki… citizens of Japan received a nefarious gift upon their heads. The United…

Persons and associations who are planning to set up events and activities in the Philippines in line with the 3rd World March met up, August 7, to share images and to interchange how to move forward and continue preparing for…

    Call for a Permanent Ceasefire and Emergency Food and Medical Aid By Gerry Condon The national organization Veterans For Peace has written an Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, asking her to push for an immediate end to…

This Friday, August 9, the International Peace Coalition in memory of those killed by the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic blasts, is inviting everyone to join an emergency assembly. The recent assassinations in Lebanon and Iran, carried out by the…

The World Conference is taking place between August 3-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki under the theme: “Together with the Hibakusha, let us achieve a nuclear weapon-free, peaceful and just world — for the future of the humankind and our planet”.…

A new study shows methane (CH4) emissions behaving like a sprinter on speed, setting decadal records. This is bad news. It’s 80 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. “Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are ‘rising…