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Securing Peace in Congo and Strategic Raw Materials for a Just Energy Transition in the World
The East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is plunged into an armed conflict that has lasted for decades, causing immeasurable human suffering, violations of human rights, massive displacement of populations, sexual violence, etc. and hindering the development...
The Status of Persons with Disabilities in Pakistan: Nothing About us, Without us
The term ‘disability’ means one or more physical impairments such as the inability to walk or to coordinate with others. It could be the effect of a disease or accident, it may be congenital or the result of mental challenges. Pakistan follows the definition of the...
Peaceful settlements of disputes: Article 33 of the UN Charter
Most of us are familiar with the film about Robert Oppenheimer that tells how, in 1945, work was being done in the deepest secrecy to develop the atomic bomb, a weapon system that would profoundly change issues of war and peace. What many of us do not know is that...
Let Israeli and Palestinian grassroots organisations participate in peace negotiations
On Tuesday January 28th, Reem Hajajreh of the Palestinian Women of the Sun, Yael Braudo-Bahat of Women Wage Peace from Israel, and Hanna Assouline, president of des Guerrières de la Paix, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at the Vrije Universiteit in...
Let ceasefire in Gaza become lasting peace
On Wednesday 15 January, I received a happy message from Gaza from the family we are in touch with. ‘We don't know if we are in a dream or reality.... The ceasefire will stop... We are crying with joy... Have my wife, children and I been spared from this war.... Will...
Peace in Ukraine Needs Christmas Ceasefire and Nuclear Neutrality, Quakers Suggest
After more than a thousand days of internationally condemned Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine and more than a million casualties, the senseless war in Ukraine must end. Ukrainian Quakers proposed that a Christmas truce could be introduced to start peace talks...
Short story: A mother’s call for peace
It is a warm day and I am at home with my adolescent son. In a moment, he will leave by car to Germany for sports training and my father and I will go to Katwijk aan Zee. ‘Will you drop me off at the station?’ I ask. ‘Yes, that's fine.’ ‘Will you take a bottle of...
Memorial protest for the children and journalists killed in Gaza
On November 4 this year, Plant een Olijfboom, Free Press Unlimited and Hilversum for Palestine organised a memorial protest with thousands of children’s shoes to commemorate the Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Palestinian authorities say that around 17,000...
The need to implement the laws for child rights in Pakistan
Pakistani children are vulnerable through many forms of physical, psychological and sexual violence and exploitation, including child trafficking and child labor that is a form of modern-day slavery. Pakistan ratified the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of...
More than 150 NGOs Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel and End to Impunity amid a Spiralling Humanitarian Catastrophe and Escalating Regional Conflict
The Statement Decrying the World's Collective Failure Comes as French Government Convenes International Conference Today on Lebanon Read the statement Lire la déclaration en français 24 October 2024: In a stirring message to UN member states, a coalition of more than...
Think of the Palestinians and hostages in Gaza and start negotiating
At Peace SOS, we are in contact with a family in Gaza who provided vegetables to local vulnerable people in Gaza before war broke out there. They have two small children and have been evacuated nine times, each time looking for a place where they might be safe. The...
Zelensky’s plan for victory extremely risky
Ukrainian President Zelensky plans to present his victory plan on Saturday. He will do so during a meeting with allies at the US airbase Ramstein in western Germany. According to NOS correspondent Christiaan Paauwe, the victory plan would mainly amount to deploying...
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