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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 fueling unprecedented death and destruction around the world, the UN Secretary-General’s report, The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future, urges UN Member States to recalibrate security and development priorities.

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 included 17 nuclear explosions in addition to 40 subcritical supplementary tests, leaving a heavy legacy of widespread radioactive contamination and resulting in severe health, environmental, and social damage that remains to this day.

Global | Palestinian and Global Civil Society Call for a Global Day of Action and Strike September 18th, 2025

Date and Time: 18-Sep

Location: Global

Description of Activity:

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 International Court of Justice (ICJ). Since then Israel has entrenched its occupation and escalated its genocidal attacks on Gaza causing the United Nations to declare famine in Gaza. The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) and Global Civil Society is calling for a Global Strike and Day of Action on September 18, 2025, to denounce Israel’s refusal to comply with this order, and to demand that UN member nations act immediately to end Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

United Kingdom | ‘Kick out Trump’s Nukes’ – National Demonstration at RAF Lakenheath

Date and Time: 20- Sep, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm London Time

Location: RAF Lakenheath

Description of Activity:

Evidence is clear that US nuclear weapons have arrived in Britain – at the Lakenheath NATO base in Suffolk. These deadly weapons make us all a target. And they increase the risk of Britain being dragged into Trump’s reckless wars.

The majority of the population totally understand how these nuclear weapons don’t make us safer. That’s why a majority oppose their deployment here in Britain.

As part of the actions to condemn Trump’s shameful state visit, join us at Lakenheath to say loud and clear that neither he nor his nuclear bombs are welcome here!

Assemble at the Main Gate at 1pm.

United Kingdom | Lift The Ban – London – September 6th Action

Date and Time: Sep 6

Location: London

Description of Activity:

The next Lift The Ban action will take place at Parliament Square in London on September 6th at 1pm. Sign up here to make a commitment to standing with 1,000 others to demand the de-proscription of Palestine Action, and an end to UK complicity in genocide.

Please read the Action Briefing Document in full before committing to this action. There is a significant risk of arrest for those who take part. The action will only go ahead if 1,000 people make a commitment.

Palestinian and Global Civil Society Call for a Global Day of Action and Strike September 18th, 2025

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 is no peace, let alone security, in the entire two provinces. Everyday it is not known if we will survive. Getting through a day, sleeping, and waking up alive is currently a miracle. Attacks against peaceful citizens have become commonplace. Killings, assassinations, massacres, forced deportations, torture, and flagrant violations of human rights have reached unbearable proportions.

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 600 metres from the epicentre. There was a white light, then a blast which rocked me. I had a moment to seek shelter that saved me, but my friends did not. There were fires and bodies everywhere. Children and adults with skin covered in blisters. The skin was hanging from their bodies. Children were crying, and then silence as their hearts stopped. I collected the bodies, and we made funeral pyres day after day.”

These words from a Hibakusha were shared at the 2025 Gensuikyo A & H conference in Hiroshima. The audience listened in respectful silence, with many tears being shed.

Global Day of Education to #CloseBases

World BEYOND War launched a campaign on the Global Day of Education to #CloseBases, inviting organizations and individuals worldwide to plan local educational events about military bases on October 4, 2025.

The thousands of military bases, both foreign and domestic, around the world are a critical piece of the war machine that must be dismantled. Closing bases is a necessary step to shift the global security paradigm towards a demilitarized approach that centers common security — no one is safe until all are safe.

Greece | Nikos Nikiforidis: Peace and Disarmament Prize

Date and Time: 22 Sep

Location: Greece

Description of Activity:
PADOP devoted to UN INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY (21^st September), will be held the next day, i.e. on MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2025 at the cultural premises of the Athens Municipality, focused on awarding this years’ “NIKOS NIKIFORIDIS” PEACE AND DISARMAMENT PRIZE.

Organizer/s: Observatory of International Organisations and Globalisation (PADOP)

Contact Details

Contact Person: Evdokia Roka

Contact Email Address: info@padop.gr

Website: https://padop.gr/