Healing People, Peace & Planet : World’s Indigenous Leaders at the First Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding held in Washington DC Urges United Nations to include Indigenous Peacebuilding Approaches in Resolving Global Conflicts.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 April 2024, Binalakshmi Nepram Mentschel We live in a world marred by conflict. The world of today urgently needs meaningful peacebuilding that works for all. 80 percent of conflicts around the world are happening in biodiversity areas where Indigenous Peoples live.107 wars...
Djibouti: Closing Foreign Military Bases/ Fermeture des bases militaires étrangères
IPB supports the World Beyond War’s campaign to close all military bases in Djibouti through non-violent means. A military bases comprises land, structures, and gear specifically designated for the requirements of the military and overseen by the soldiers who typically reside and operate there...
Support the Let Cuba Live!
Today Cuba faces a blockade whose sole purpose is to force it’s people into submission; a blockade that is using new tools like the State Sponsors of Terrorism list to increase its strength and reach. IPB support the Let Cuba Live Campaign. Join us in collecting 1 MILLION SIGNATURES for an urgent...
Global Day of Action #StopSendingArms to Israel
On May 2, the Global Day of Action will mobilise a global coalition of arms experts, civil society organisations, climate activists, healthcare workers, faith leaders, journalists, academics, legal professionals, artists and students around the shared goal of calling on all states to halt the...
Stop the War Coalition -Philippines Statement on Global Military Spending
PRESS STATEMENT APRIL 25, 2024 References: Dj Janier (09336412694), Mercy Angeles (09063677594) Stop the War Coalition Philippines joins the call to demilitarize as global military spending rises for the ninth consecutive year Wars and military conflicts devastate entire portions of the planet...
UNODA’s Statement on the Global Days of Action on Military Spending
Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, issued the following message on the occasion of the 2024 Global Days of Action on Military Spending. The figures released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) show that global military expenditures rose by...
Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2023
Published by: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Date: 22 April 2024 Authors: Dr Nan Tian, Dr Diego Lopes da Silva, Xiao Liang and Lorenzo Scarazzato World military expenditure increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2023, reaching a total of $2443 billion. The 6.8 per cent...
IPB Statement on Recent Escalation in West Asia
18 April 2024, Germany The International Peace Bureau (IPB) is deeply concerned over the continued escalation and open violation of international law in West Asia. Both the Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria and Iran’s launching of missiles and drones from its own soil toward Israel...
C7 Statement to the G7 Foreign Ministers
14 April 2024. Ahead of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Capri, 17-19 April 2024, we, the C7 (Civil7), issue a statement with our recommendations to call on the G7 Foreign Ministers to take concrete actions to promote human rights and the common interests of humanity and the...