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  • September 19, 2019
    UN chief urged to denounce human rights violations in Xinjiang, China

    The Chinese authorities have overseen a campaign of mass internment of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang province, northwest China.

  • May 13, 2019
    London event marks a year of Saudi Arabia's crackdown on women's rights

    On 15 May 2018, a number of prominent women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia were detained for their peaceful human rights work.

  • April 1, 2019
    NATO anniversary to be marked with protest at London HQ

    Protesters will call for NATO to be disbanded, highlighting concerns about its role on the world stage and its nuclear weapons posture.

  • December 5, 2018
    CND urges UK government to defend arms control treaty

    CND is calling on the government to play its part in securing the future of a crucial arms control agreement.

  • April 25, 2018
    World leaders gather at UN to renew commitment to build and sustain peace

    Calling for more diplomacy, dialogue and mediation to head off conflicts before they break out, United Nations officials has urged a gathering of world leaders to help strengthen a new approach to sustaining peace, which aims to put prevention at the heart of the UN's work.

  • April 16, 2018
    Church of Scotland responds to 'deeply concerning' Syrian airstrikes

    The Church of Scotland has responded to the US, UK and French decision to launch airstrikes against Syria in the wake of the chemical attack in Douma calling the action, "deeply concerning".

  • June 19, 2014
    Changing times and better diplomacy reveals Trident to be a cold war dinosaur

    The next UK strategic defence and security review won’t be held until 2015, but debate about whether or not Britain should retain its expensive Trident ballistic missile nuclear deterrent is already hotting up.

  • September 10, 2013
    What to do in Syria? A different approach is needed

    The war in Syria is illegal. If a criminal had poisoned someone, our concern would be how to protect the public from future poisonings and how to arrest the criminal and bring him (or her) before a court of law. And civil society needs to be directly involved in the talks. Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at the LSE, says that the military action versus diplomacy standoff represents a tired form of geopolitics that misses the humanitarian dimension enshrined in international law.

  • September 1, 2013
    From crisis to opportunity with Syria

    We should turn the crisis over into an opportunity, writes regional analyst and Ekklesia associate Dr Harry Hagopian. With Russia on a back foot and Syria clearly anxious about the Western reaction, is it not possible to coerce the Syrian regime to sit at the negotiating table for a Geneva II style of negotiations that could usher in the transitional period. Do we not owe it to the people of Syria to try it, he asks?

  • August 29, 2013
    Negotiating limits of war in Syria through global media

    War rhetoric in the media this week seemed to imply the impending end of Syria’s Assad regime and the spread of Syria’s civil war into a larger regional conflict, while key players carefully chose their words to try to emphasise the limits of conflict, and responses to any breach, writes Arthur Bernhoff, an international affairs analyst currently based in Beirut.