by Peace | Mar 23, 2026 | Ukraine, United Nations, Vrede en oorlog
Update: 23 March 2026. Quaker and conscientious objector Yurii Sheliazhenko has been released from military custody in Ukraine after being forcibly detained last Thursday. Yurii was beaten, pepper-sprayed, dragged by his feet and hair and humiliated during his...
by Peace | Mar 13, 2026 | human rights, Russia, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
In the current report, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine presents its latest findings on crimes and violations committed during the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Commission has continued its investigations...
by Peace | Nov 6, 2025 | Russia, Ukraine, United Nations
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine submitted the present report to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly on 27th October 2025. Below you find the summary of this report. The Commission’s latest investigations have established that in...
by Peace | Sep 16, 2025 | Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
On Thursday morning, I read on the Dutch news website NOS that 15 people had been killed in a major air strike on Kyiv, including four children. An EU building had also been hit. My thoughts went out to Yurii Sheliazhenko, my pacifist Ukrainian peace activist friend...
by Peace | Dec 17, 2024 | kernwapens, Russia, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
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...
by Peace | Oct 10, 2024 | Brazil, China, kernwapens, Ukraine, Vrede en oorlog
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...
