The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future
9 September 2025, New York – Following a decade-long military build-up, global military spending hit a record high in 2024, soaring by more than nine per cent from 2023 and signaling a dangerous move away from the principles of the UN Charter. Amid an era of geopolitical tension and distrust...
French Nuclear Tests in Algeria – Joint Statement on the International Day Against Nuclear Tests
We, the undersigned organizations, on the occasion of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, 29 August 2025, express our deep concern at the passing of more than six decades since the start of the series of nuclear tests conducted by France in the Algerian Sahara between 1960 and 1966. These...
Palestinian and Global Civil Society Call for a Global Day of Action and Strike September 18th, 2025
On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/ES-10/L.31, demanding Israel end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) within 12 months and to immediately comply with the provisional measures in the genocide case at the...
Citizen Barometer of Peace and Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Produced and directed by the Pamoja kwa Amani Consortium, C-PKA / with the support of PAEMA, Special Issue of August 21, 2025 for the special attention of the members of the United Nations Security Council. From the security and peace index in the provinces of North and South Kivu: There...
Bearing Witness: Reflections from the World Conference against A and H Bombs
By Philip Jennings, IPB Co-President “I forget things easily, but I can’t forget that day. I want to, but I can’t. I need to hand down my experience. Until the age of 80, I refused to speak about August 6, but now I do. I was 15. I worked in a tobacco factory; we were … Continue reading...