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18.08.2010
Beauty of Kashmir, Present and Past
The beauty of Kashmir’s cultural history is often overshadowed by the present day sadness of the ongoing daily human rights violations and the lack of democratic space. This is why the International Council for Human Development (ICHD), supported by the Dutch NGO IKV Pax Christi, took the initiative to organize a Cultural and Literary Fair on Kashmir under the title: ‘Beauty of Kashmir, Present and Past’.
Read the invitation here

05.08.2010
After 65 years it's time to retire the bomb
65 years ago this week the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities: Hiroshima on 6 August and Nagasaki on 9 August. We recognize the suffering of those cities, destroyed in a flash. The destructive power of these bombs and the long-term effects that can still be seen and felt today, urge us to repeat today what we have said so many times ever since: Never again!
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29.07.2010
Sudan East Equatoria women parliamentarians’ caucus formed
In a three-day workshop, organized by the Women Parliamentarian Caucus and IKV Pax Christi, Sudanese women discussed the engagement of women in electoral politics in Eastern Sudan.
Read the full article in the Sudan Tribune

26.07.2010
South Ossetian peace activist victim of violent assault
Last Saturday peace activist Timur Tskhovrebov was attacked and battered in the streets of Tskhinvali. Tskhovrebov, who runs the publishing company of the newspaper ‘The 21rst Century’, was assaulted in broad daylight on July 24th around 13.00 o’clock. As a patriot ánd passionate advocate of dialogue between South Ossetia and Georgia, he recently signed a joint Georgian-Ossetian declaration.
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16.07.2010
Six months before critical referendum, sudan alarmingly unprepared
With six months until a referendum on Southern independence, Sudan is alarmingly unprepared according to a new report published today by a global coalition of 26 humanitarian and human rights organisations. The report calls for urgent action from African heads of state who will meet shortly at a major summit of the African Union in Uganda from 19 – 27 July. Ahead of the summit, international Sudan envoys will meet in Khartoum on 17 July.
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12.07.2010
Kashmir petition
The humanitarian situation in Kashmir from last few months is deteriorating. During this time many innocent young Kashmiris men and women lost their lives and many more remain under such a risk. Sign the petition　
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01.07.2010
Protests in Kashmir are spreading and Delhi is digging in.
In recent days protest in Kashmir have cumulated as each day more young protestors are killed in clashes with special forces. Over the past three weeks a vicious cycle of violence has claimed the lives of 10 young people. The youngest being 9 years old.
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30.06.2010
TEIMUN Converence
Kashmir & ICJ : simulation-summerschool for students specialized in international law.
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25.06.2010
Ongoing violence and human rights violations in Kashmir: the urgent need for truth and justice
Tensions in the streets of Srinagar are running high. Public protest and strikes have paralyzed the Kashmir valley again after a series of incidents occurred in which innocent youth have been killed.
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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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14.05.2010
Press freedom under attack in Iraq
On May 4th, a young journalist called Sardasht Osman who was 23 years old and a student in Slahaddin University in Erbil (capital of Kurdistan Region) was kidnapped at 8:30 a.m. According to eye witnesses a car was waiting for him in front of the college where he was studying.
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12.05.2010
The Library on Wheels for Nonviolence and Peace
The Library on Wheels for Nonviolence and Peace, a member of the Pax Christi International Network, has been working since many years in an extraordinary way to offer children in the occupied Palestinian West Bank an alternative to violence. This new report describes how this is done. The report is also available in Arabic translation in order to share the Library’s experiences with other organisations in the Middle East. The report is part 1 in a series of 2. Part 2, about Lebanon, will be published soon.
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29.03.2010
SUDANESE CHURCH LEADERS' FORUM
More than 60 Sudanese Church leaders from 14 churches throughout Sudan gathered in Juba with their international partners from 23-26 March 2010 to review the current situation in Sudan and to prepare for the future.
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22.02.2010
Belgian “Gang of Four” release a call for a nuclear weapons free world
Former NATO secretary general Willy Claes, former prime ministers Guy Verhofstadt and Jean-Luc Dehaene and former minister of Foreign Affairs Louis Michel have published an opinion piece in Belgium's newspapers De Standaard and Le Soir on February 19, becoming the latest “Gang of Four” to publicly demonstrate their support of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.
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