By Ray Acheson, from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Proposed by Fotini Sianou In the last week as cities around the world have entered into lockdown, and as fear of the many uncertainties associated with our latest global crisis mount, some people have turned to what they have been told by their leaders …
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16/3/2020 Sent by Alexia Tsoyni On 16 March 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine.
BBC news 3 nov.2019 Yvette Lundy, a well-known member of the French Resistance and a Nazi concentration camp survivor, has died at the age of 103. Authorities said she died on Sunday in the northern French town of Epernay. Ms Lundy supplied fake papers to Jewish families, men fleeing forced labour, and escaped prisoners of …
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Academic, feminist and peace activist who explored the themes of masculinity and war, and gender and technology Cynthia Cockburn’s argument that gender-as-we-know-it plays an important part in perpetuating war has practical implications for movements for demilitarisation Known for her research and activism in the field of gender, war and peace-making, Cynthia Cockburn, who has died …
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As a result of attacks against schools, hundreds of teachers have been killed, scores have left the country, and many others simply no longer show up for work. Damaged transportation infrastructure makes it difficult to even get to school, and frequent arrests of students and teachers who do make it and are believed to be …
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