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20.04.2012 Iraqi christians and muslims in dialogue
Since the war in Iraq and also due to sectarian violence, various faith communities have grown apart from each other. Often Young people do not know about each other’s religious beliefs. Prejudices about one another are prone to develop.
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01.03.2012 International landmine campaign starts today
Every year, landmines still cause over 4000 casualties worldwide. On the 1st of March, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines launches a global campaign called Lend your Leg, to call upon all world leaders to tackle this problem once and for all.
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23.02.2012 Syria Alert # 5: Support the nonviolent forces for change
Based upon observations of it’s Syrian partners and of IKV Pax Christi itself, the peace organization send out a Syria Alert. It calls on the international community to engage Russia and China in order to form an international coalition that focuses on ending the violence. At this moment, military intervention is neither feasible nor supportive to this primary goal.
Read the Syria Alert
02.02.2012 Dutch arms export report now available in English
Each year the Dutch organisation 'Campagne tegen Wapenhandel' publishes a critical report on Dutch arms export figures and policies. The analysis of 2010, published with financial support by IKV Pax Christi, is now available in English. The issue includes an extensive analysis of Dutch arms exports to the Middle East and North Africa, in relation tot the popular uprisings in these regions.
Download the report on Dutch Arms Export
12.01.2012 Finland joins Mine Ban Treaty
Good news for the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT): last week Finland became the 159th member state to join the international treaty that prohibits antipersonnel mines.
Read more about the Mine Ban Treaty
08.06.2010 "Unpaid Debt." - Lundin's war guilt in southern Sudan
In 1997 a consortium led by Lundin Oil contracts to extract oil in Block 5A, an area that until escaped the civil war. The report shows that there is a direct link between Lundin Oil's operations and the escalation of war in the region. As a result of the war, 12 000 people were killed and moreover 160 000 people displaced. The report concludes that Lundin Oil may be found complicit in violating international law by avoiding to act, or by indirectly supporting war crimes and crimes against humanity. It also believes that the oil company should compensate the civilian population affected by war.
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