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Igniting the divine spark for a thriving world

The Villa Romana Hotel, Baguio, Philippines, was the venue for a meeting of a small group of individuals gathered together in the common aim of helping manifest a peaceful, non-violent world. An essential element in this grouping is the links…

Sombath Somphone Receives the 2015 Gwangju Special Award for Human Rights

‘I stand before you humble and a little sad that it is I who is here to receive this Special Award for Human Rights’, said Shui Meng Ng, wife of Sombath Somphone upon accepting the 2015 Gwangju Special Award for…

US tests nuclear missile as nations fail to find consensus on disarmament

With the NPT Conference wrapping up and struggling to find consensus, the timing of this missile test sends a very wrong message The US is set to launch a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in…

Human Rights – an empty container in most of Asia

ASIA: “We need a new frontier in the human rights field. This frontier is the frontier of institutional reform.”  This is the title of a speech delivered by Basil Fernando at  The Fifth  Human Rights Cities Forum-  As the keynote…

Why Elites Love Drones

I sometimes read that drone strikes are counterproductive to western security interests because each person killed by a drone results in more new ‘terrorists’. See, for example, ‘The more civilians US drones kill in the Mideast, the more radicals they…

Faces of the struggle against homophobia and transphobia

At 17th of may, the International day against homophobia and transphobia, the LGBT activists Stosh Mugisha from Uganda, Alfonso Pantinsano from Germany and Kirill Kalugin from Russia met at the demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Stosh had to…

Intolerance in the 21st Century

The intolerance in the 21st Century is different from the religious intolerance of the Dark Ages. Intolerance in the Dark Ages hated intellect, science and reason. Intolerance of the modern age can slap the face of anybody, anywhere, anytime without…

Korea-UN: Political peace conference needed

UNITED NATIONS: POLITICAL PEACE CONFERENCE NEEDED! Please sign our petition: Dear United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, On this 70th anniversary of Korea’s division, we urge the United Nations to broker a Political Peace Conference, as called for in Article…

An ignored aspect of French-Swiss relations: the atomic bomb

“Switzerland would be a model to follow,” declared President Hollande after a two-day state visit to the Swiss Confederation. Let’s hope that he’ll encourage his diplomats to do just that, as they prepare for the April 27 opening of the…

UK Trident system is “so broken it can’t even do the tests that prove it works”, says whistleblower

Engineering failures on Trident submarine place crew at risk and raise doubts over whether missiles could actually be launched, says whistleblower This article comes from the Nuclear Information Service website. A Royal Navy whistleblower has exposed a shocking catalogue of…

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