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Since 1985, almost 53,000 people have been charged with the crime of adultery. Although almost 50% of the population today hold no particular religious beliefs, adultery was enshrined as a crime in the 1953 constitution. In the last 25 years…

Disarmament campaigners in Israel have launched a campaign to pressure Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention that they have already signed up to in the run up to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference scheduled for…

In a decision that the Minister for Integration, Sebastian Kurz, called a “milestone” and that opponents denounced as racist and unfair, the new law: prohibits mosques from receiving foreign financing; demands that religious teaching be done in German; and makes…

By Marianella Kloka*. We have almost had a month of coalition government since the elections of the 25th of January. There is no doubt that throughout this period we have heard things that the majority of Greeks wanted to hear,…

By Nikos Stergiou, World without Wars and Violence, Greece Last night was a different one in Athens. People were not used to this kind of attitude from the police, the media, the European people and the Greek Government itself. After…

Despite the Prime Minister ruling out British troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria in parliament, the government looks set to send 2,000 British troops to Jordan, which borders both of them and is currently involved in bombing Syria.…

A memorial service took place today, 24th January, 2015 for Mary Shaver Hobi who passed away in November last year after a very short battle against a cancer that was discovered too late and was too malignant to treat effectively.…

The question who shot down the Malaysian Airlines plane en-route to the far east from Holland on the 17th of July is a question that has yet to be answered.  Despite the black boxes having been sent to the UK,…

By Nafeez Ahmed In just 15 years, the world as we know it will have transformed forever. The ​age of oil, gas, coal and nuclear will be over. A new age of clean power and smarter cars will fundamentally, totally, and permanently…

On the 9th of December in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, delegates from almost 160 governments together with dozens of NGOs came together in the Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons. After hearing how Humanitarian Law, Environmental Law…