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IFOR speaks on conscientious objection and war in Ukraine at the UN

IFOR took the floor in the plenary of the ongoing 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council during the Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet -at her last ID at the UN HRC- on the situation in…

Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation

According to the National Priorities Project, about 25% of our tax dollars go to the Pentagon to finance the men, women, and weaponry that enables the United States military to fight its wars in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere.…

Covid deaths in the US (over 1 million) and China (about 5000).

“History Should Judge Us” – and it will. John V. Walsh In May and June of 2022 two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid and were widely noted in the press, one in the US and one…

PM Hasina’s Speech at the Inauguration of the Padma Bridge

On the 25th of June 2022, Bangladesh inaugurated the Padma Bridge, the country’s most anticipated infrastructure project. The grand ceremony took place at the bridge premises. Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, as guest-of-honor, took the podium at 10:49 AM…

JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange: The UK approved Julian’s extradition

Friday’s announcement that the UK government approved Julian’s extradition was perhaps an expected formality, but many of you no doubt felt as we did that the news was extremely disappointing – particularly as so many press freedom organisations, including us,…

Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade

Valentín, the man next to us in line as we made our way across the international border, asked what we had been doing in Tijuana. We had been at the Workers Summit of the Americas, organized as an alternative to…

June 23 Oakland Protest Against Barbara Lee’s Vote for $40 billion to fund War in Ukraine. Join Us.

On Thursday June 23 people will gather outside Rep Barbara Lee’s office in Oakland at 11:30 am to protest her recent vote for $40 billion for the war in Ukraine. The demonstration is called in conjunction with the International Day…

#JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange

Full page ad in Tuesdays @guardian: 1800 Journalists from the UK and around the world urge the British government to block the extradition of Julian Assange The case against Julian Assange is a threat to Journalists everywherehttps://t.co/EFPgZn2md8 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange pic.twitter.com/uyQNfdrQT8 —…

IFOR: We stand in solidarity with those who refuse to engage in the war in Ukraine and in all other wars

Gathered in Paris for the annual meeting of the European branches of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), representatives from Austria, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Wales express their profound concern for the increasing of armament…

Chile’s New Constitution: The best constitutions I have read in a long time, if ever.

I just used Google Translate to translate the constitution draft from Spanish to English (which worked great) and took two hours to browse through it. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to find in it. To make…

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