Recently added articles from International Peace Update:
Paying the price: looking back, learning, looking forward.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 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 1998; * The USA's military ...
Military expenditure today.
Sep 01, 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 countries and regions as regards GDP shares and per ...
The political economy of militarism.
Sep 01, 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 weapons--are produced. Many countries have ...
1000 000 000: imagining the billions wasted on military spending.
Sep 01, 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 ... ail the way to one million, it would ...
WILPF working against racism.(UN pages)
Sep 01, 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 intensity. The World Conference ...
Enduring gender gaps.
Sep 01, 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 guidelines for the process were provided in the UN ...
How pale the sky.(Poem)
Sep 01, 2008; ... <Pre> 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. How cold my heart. Each night I quarter, ...
DISARM! Dismantle the war economy project!
Sep 01, 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 built on that experience to launch the DISARM! ...
Why are we arguing over one slice of the pie.
Sep 01, 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. The 52nd Session of the Commission on the ...
International Women's Day: disarmament seminar statement.
Sep 01, 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 human security and sustainable development ...
No more failures-as-usual! The World food emergency Crisis Summit.
Sep 01, 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 unpredictable climate chaos and the additional ...
In the words of Jane Addams.
Sep 01, 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, that if a man commits himself to ...
Education for peace.
Sep 01, 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 has developed a new way to spread information ...
WILPF.
Sep 01, 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 at war against each other and neutral ones, ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Nearly 100 years ago, without email, airplanes or faxes WILPF brought over 1000 people together to work for peace, justice and freedom. Then, and still today WILPF makes a political difference through an unapologetic and bold articulation of women's views and actions against war from a ...
Congress resolutions.(Conference news)
Dec 01, 2007 ... The 29th triennial congress of the women's international league for peace and freedom, meeting July 21-27, 2007 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia adopted 10 resolutions which are available on the international website in full. On Comfort Women: WILPF acknowledges an international movement ...
A WILPF Manifesto.
Dec 01, 2007; ... WILPF is approaching its 100th anniversary. In eight years, members and friends from all corners of the world will gather in the Hague, where it was founded in 1915. They will gather to honour those remarkable women who defied the "enemy lines" and met to protest the war and its killing ...
Women building peace in the world-the case of Colombia.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Reflections of the WILPF Delegation to Colombia, July 2007 An international delegation of WILPF members went to Colombia in the end of July 07 to assess the situation for women within a 1325 context. The delegation supported the concern that the civil population, and particularly women and ...
Resistance and challenges: Bolivia, Latin America and the world-excerpts from the Congress seminar.(Conference news)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Ana Maria Vargas: The whole world is looking for peace and freedom. Women have asked why the budgets are so high for the military and arms? Why do we spend more on this when we have millions and millions of people who are suffering? This is a challenge for women in poverty, and women ...
WILPF at the United Nations.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
Dec 01, 2007 ... This is the first of a new regular feature in IPU, providing some analysis and information about WILPF's work around the UN, contributed by UN representatives and others. Excerpts from WILPF's UN Day statement 24 October 2007 The Women's International League for Peace ...