GDAMS 2020, April 10 – May 9 – HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has shown the world where humanity’s priorities should lie. This major attack on people’s security across the world shames and discredits global military expenditures and prove them an outrageous waste and loss of opportunities. What the world needs now is … Continue reading “Join GDAMS 2020!”
For many it was the threat of a war with Iran and the stationing of new nuclear weapons that led thousands of people to the streets to protest against the US Air Base in Ramstein on June 29th2019.
IPB’s Vice-President, Joseph Gerson, spoke at the Gensuikyo International Forum, part of the 2019 Bikini Day Commemorative Program in Japan. The event marked the 57th anniversary of the Bikini disaster caused by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the year of 1954.
Reiner Braun is the former Executive Director of IPB. He studied German Literature, History and Journalism. Since 1982, he has been actively involved in the Peace Movement, working in the office of the “Krefelder Appeal” against new nuclear weapons in Europe. He was the Executive Director for Scientists for Peace and Sustainability for several years starting in … Continue reading “Reiner Braun”
Ingeborg Breines – An Opinion Piece Martin Luther King: It is non-violence or it is non-existence. Some of us would remember exactly where we were on the day 50 years back when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered so hideously. Very few “survive” being killed in the way that Martin Luther King has done. The … Continue reading “Ingeborg Breines on “MLK – It is non-violence or it is non-existence””
by Joseph Gerson Speech at the World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Hiroshima “Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of mankind by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.” Andrei Sakharov
The International Peace Bureau is dedicated to the vision of a World Without War. Our current main programme centres on Disarmament for Sustainable Development and within this, our focus is mainly on the reallocation of military expenditure. We believe that by reducing funding for the military sector, significant amounts of money could be released for … Continue reading “Who we are”
UNI Global Union welcomes the draft for the ban treaty It is a historical declaration on the way to a nuclear weapon free world As the General Secretary of UNI Global Union which represents 20 million members in the service sectors worldwide, I urge all governments to work towards creating a credible and effective treaty … Continue reading “UNI Global Union statement to the UN conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons (ban treaty), leading to their elimination.”
The year 2016 was an important one for IPB, for three reasons. It saw the sudden rise of new and dangerous forms of populism around the world; it was the year in which we held the Berlin Congress and elected a new leadership at the Triennial Assembly; and it marked the beginning of the transition … Continue reading “Activity Report 2016”
THE PROBLEMS The use of nuclear weapons would be the ultimate development catastrophe. Apart from destruction by blast and fire, the radiation effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, the subsequent atmospheric and underground nuclear tests, and the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents give an indication of the scope of environmental damage that would ensue from … Continue reading “Nuclear Weapons”
