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DISARMAMENT AND DEMILITARIZATION ISSUES:
A report to DISARM E-News from ALBANIA. This is one of our Sections with extensive experience in small arms control, but here they are looking at proposed WILPF resoltuions on NO BASES, Cluster Munitions and war profiteering.
Norway WILPFers are proud of their country's divestment policies. What other governments are divesting stock from corporations producing cluster bombs, nuclear weapons and all the rest? This is a route for NGOs, universities and private investors as well!
Reaching Critical Will is updating information on Corporate Connections and War Profiteering as a major contribution to our new international network of organizations seeking to dismantle war economies. Click here for the latest WILPF updates on multinational corporations promoting and profiting from addiction to war. The emphasis is on nuclear weapons and space militarization profiteers, but also helps track producers of small arms, cluster munitions, etc..Use it as a guide to divestment as well.
MAY CALENDAR :
May 1- 11: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Prep Com in Vienna. Follow the daily action in the Reaching Critical Will NPT News in Review.
May 3: War in Space or Life on Earth: The Choice is Ours. Report on WILPF panel with Bruce Gagnon Coordinator of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and Carol Urner, co-convener of the WILPF Peace and Security Working Group. The sessions were organized by WILPF Norway at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, New York. Room 2, 10th floor 777 UN Plaza, 1:15 to 3:00 pm. Edel Havin Beukes, co-convener of the WILPF Environmental Working Group, facilitated. Access the WILPF statement presented to the NGO caucus here.
May 8: Nuclear Power Is Not the Solution to Global Warming. WILPF workshop with Alice Slater, .Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Terje Kronen of the Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development and Mary Olsen, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, New York. Room 2, 10th floor 777 UN Plaza, 1:15 to 3:00 pm. This forum is also organized by WILPF Norway and facilitated by Edel Havin Beukes.
May 23-25: Working conference on cluster munitions ban in Lima, Peru, with 104 governments invited. Sections and Branches will find many Resources for those working to ban Cluster Munitions .
FROM THE LINKS BELOW ACCESS OTHER WILPF WEB PAGES ON PEACE AND SECURITY ISSUES:
WILPF Peace Women Tri-lingual web site on UNSCR 1375 with e-newsletters, etc. The latest issue(April 25) of the newsletter focuses on gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in post conflict situations. Read articles on gender and land mines, and gender issues in conflicts in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Nepal, Ireland, Israel and elsewhere.
WILPF International Human Rights Web Pages let WILPF members follow actions in the UN Human Rights Council. Read the report on the Aeotara Conference on Violence Against Women submitted by Edwina Hughes. Do other Sections have reports of similar events?
WILPF Reaching Critical Will, Peace and Security DISARM issues in depth with a special emphasis on nuclear and space treaty negotiations at the United Nations, but there is also extensive information on all other disarmament treaties.
WILPF International Peace and Security Working Group with program guidelines. WILPF Geneva International Office Disarmament web pages with resources on cluster bombs, bio-weapons, nukes, space, small arms and more. From here also access Resolutions on Disarmament that lay out WILPF's disarmament policies since 1915.
WILPF DISARM E-News is a service of the WILPF Peace and Security Working Group. It focuses on the DISARM issues covered by that working group, which also includes Peace Women and Human Rights issues. Edwina Hughes (New Zealand) and Carol Urner (USA) are co-conveners of this group.
Monthly editions are edited by Carol Urner. Please send your reports, comments and suggestions for improvement to her at carol.disarm@gmail.com and copy to Edwina Hughes, co-convener of the group, at pma@xtra.co.nz
