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 | Nov 27, 2024 | Vrede en oorlog, Vrouwen
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...
by Peace | Nov 6, 2024 | Gaza, Israel, Vrede en oorlog
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...
by Peace | Oct 24, 2024 | Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Vrede en oorlog
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...
by Peace | Oct 20, 2024 | children, Gaza, Israel, Vrede en oorlog
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...
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...