Blogs
This page features blog posts and updates from Peace SOS.
Topics include peacebuilding efforts, humanitarian concerns, and reflections on current events.
The Use of Starvation by Warring Parties in Yemen as a Method of Warfare
Mwatana and GRC release “Starvation Makers” report Sana’a/The Hague – Warring parties in Yemen have deliberately deprived civilians of objects essential to their survival (OIS), starving them, in some cases to death, over the course of the conflict, Mwatana for Human...
Memory died as a result of giving birth: End child marriage in Zimbabwe and everywhere around the world
Zimbabwe has come a long way in the fight for a socially just society based on respect for human life and dignity for its citizens. It is therefore not surprising that 2021 marks thirteen years of Zimbabwe being a state party to the landmark Protocol to the African...
A report from Gaza: A cry for help and for food and peace
During the past period, and within our work in distributing aid and food baskets to poor families in the Gaza Strip, we were able, thanks to your support, to provide food and in-kind assistance (cash) to a large group of poor people in various areas in the Gaza Strip,...
“I’M AFRAID”, says Esra, a woman on the run on Lesvos, Greece
We are all afraid sometimes, being afraid gives us such a bad feeling. Volatile, restless and alert, even at night. Fortunately, we have houses, and beds that we can crawl into at night. Movies we can watch, walks we can take outside in nature. Fortunately, we have...
Free the people working in the brick factories, brick-kilns
Thousands of Pakistani brick-kiln workers borrow money from their employer for essential needs in times of family crisis. These debts keep each family bonded to their brick kiln, with money deducted from their wages to pay the interest on the loan. From of their...
Hunger in South Sudan and what we can do about it
My name is Wol Deng Akeen (Ustaz Wol). I am a South Sudanese national. I hope you’re in good health by the grace of God. Here is a brief article elucidating on part of the South Sudan situation. INTRODUCTION After 21 years of civil conflict between the...
Women Wage Peace brings Israeli and Palestinian women together
Women Wage Peace (WWP) is an Israeli grassroots movement, founded in the aftermath of the 2014 war with Gaza. We have 45,000 members from the right, center and left of the political spectrum, Jews and Arabs, secular and religious, united in the demand for a mutually...
Taking care of the vulnerable people in Syria, Idlib
Syria is a country at war, and its people have now been suffering for the last 10 years. The number of orphans in our cities has increased as a result of the war. Many children lost either their father or their mother, or even both. There is no breadwinner for them...
Children’s Rights in Brick-making Factories (Brick Kilns) in Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistan is a beautiful country, but the situation of children working in brick making factories – brick kilns – deserves attention. Yousaf Adnan is director of CARE Pakistan and one of the people who do their best to improve the situation for the children. According...
Fluffy’s Dream
Fluffy is the youngest son of Wooliemum and Wooliedad. He has three siblings – one sister and two brothers. Fluffy is very happy that he was born in Woolieland. Because Woolieland is a wonderful place, where everyone is kind to each other. But one day, Fluffy finds a...
Once upon a time in Woolieland
Woolieland is like no country on earth, it is far away from humans over the rainbow. Everywhere, you can see wonderful gardens with the tastiest fruits you can ever imagine. Nowhere on earth produces such yummy fruits as in Woolieland. In the gardens, flowers of all...
Nederland, onderteken en ratificeer het VN-kernwapenverbod
Vrijdag 22 januari 2021 treedt het VN-verdrag inzake het Verbod op Kernwapens in werking. Er zijn dan 90 dagen verstreken nadat vijftig landen het ondertekend hebben. Vanaf die datum is het ontwikkelen, testen, fabriceren en bezitten van kernwapens verboden. Ook mag...