Europe

In the basement of the COOP anti-war café in Berlin, in an almost conspiratorial atmosphere, we met with Marianella Kloka from Pressenza Athens for the Greek-German exchange. She is a long-time activist and human rights expert and has closely followed…

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 is certainly a little step in the right direction to honour at least parts of Alfred Nobel’s will. It doesn’t violate the Will of Alfred Nobel which has happened so many times before. And it’s…

By Peter Dombi; cross-posted from Our Broken System, for Occupy London By electing Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, the Labour Party has finally thrown off the last vestiges of Blair-ism and taken a firm step back towards its Leftist…

The First Committee on disarmament of the UN General Assembly opened for general debate from October 7 until the end of next week, where governments will be exchanging views about a range of disarmament issues, including nuclear weapons. Following the…

Anna has been engaged for many years in the areas of peace and nonviolence, coordinating a commission on these subjects for the European Region of the Humanist International (at the kick off meeting in 2003 in Prague and presenting the…

In the Czech Republic soldiers have reportedly started touring elementary schools nationwide in an effort to introduce students to military life. Children from the age of 10 are being familiarized with and encouraged to play with machine guns. These terrifying…

On this day another bus joined the March. In Seo de Urgel EuroMarches delivered a letter to the Archbishop, Co-Prince of Andorra, a meeting was then held with the unions, who were in their election day and, finally, there was…

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing – writes Lori Zimmer for Inhabitat. “IKEA has just turned its flat pack sensibilities from the urban apartment to the global village by unveiling a comfortable, solar-powered shelter that…

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, received the marchers at the city council and give her support to the EuroMarches. Coming from Zaragoza, EuroMarches arrived at Tortosa at lunchtime on the 5th of October. Representatives from the social movements in Bajo…

This year’s international Day of Nonviolence witnessed a whole host of activities around the world. Among the activities held on the annual October 2nd included: In Nakpanduri, a conflict area that experiences curfews in the northern region of Ghana, there…