International Peace Update articles from September 1 2008

International Peace Update archives from September 1 2008

Enduring gender gaps.
September 1, 2008... The transformation of the Commission on Human rights to the Human Rights Council was placed on the agenda as institution building. The painstaking transition has taken two years and remains open for improvement as tested by experience. The...

How pale the sky.(Poem)
September 1, 2008... It's late; How pale the sky over Palestine Clouds dripping blood on ancient golden stone. Withered white the jacaranda once garbed in purple dress Ready for the dance. How silent the blue bells, Dangling on dead donkey necks. ...

DISARM! Dismantle the war economy project!
September 1, 2008... The dangers to both peace and freedom posed by the growing strength of the U.S. military industrial complex has long been recognized by the WILPF U.S. Section. In the 1980s and 90s WILPF promoted the popular Women's Budget project, and in 1998...

Why are we arguing over one slice of the pie.
September 1, 2008... One of WILPF's great strengths is our broad and comprehensive peace agenda. Our ability to show connections between issues such as gender equality, disarmament and challenging militarism can be more significant than our work on separate issues....

International Women's Day: disarmament seminar statement.
September 1, 2008... We, women from many parts the world, take this opportunity to raise our voices, which are often suppressed or ignored, on disarmament, peace and security. The 2008 International Women's Day Disarmament Seminar highlighted the crises of...

No more failures-as-usual! The World food emergency Crisis Summit.
September 1, 2008... At the World Food Summit in 1996, when there were an estimated 830 million hungry people, governments pledged to halve the number by 2015. Many now predict that the number will instead increase by 50% to 1.2 billion, further threatened by...

In the words of Jane Addams.
September 1, 2008... Discussing disarmament in 1932, early WILPF President and Nobel Peace Laurette, Jane Addams wrote: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "If we could only convert our men and women, and make them see that war is destructive, that peace is creative,...

Education for peace.
September 1, 2008... The world is becoming increasingly interdependent. People can travel around the globe, students go abroad to study and new technology provides new forms of communication. Following this international and technological change, the United Nations...

WILPF.
September 1, 2008... The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. It was founded in April 1915, in the Hague, the Netherlands, by some 1,300 women from Europe and North America, from countries...

WILPF working against racism.(UN pages)
September 1, 2008... Three decades of action by the United Nations to end racism and racial discrimination contributed to ending apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s; but racism and racial discrimination worldwide continues and is on the increase in scope and...

1000 000 000: imagining the billions wasted on military spending.
September 1, 2008... It is almost impossible to image the millions and billions of dollars being spent on weapons and war today. But imagining is essential to motivate action. If you count, one-two-three- four... two hundred... twenty two thousand and one...

The political economy of militarism.
September 1, 2008... As global military expenditures increase every year, the culture, products, and consequences of militarism have also been increasing and becoming more embedded in social, political, and economic structures. More weapons--and newer, more lethal...

Military expenditure today.
September 1, 2008... World military expenditure in 2006 amounted to $1,204 billion at current prices. This sum corresponds to 2.5 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP) and $184 per capita in current prices. However, there is a wide variation between...

Paying the price: looking back, learning, looking forward.(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... The 2008 Yearbook from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) states that: * Global military expenditures in 2007 was a colossal US$1,339 billion--a real-terms increase of 6 per cent over 2006 and of 45 per cent since...