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At a critical moment in the global situation, in which neo-colonialist violence is reappearing and all respect for human rights and the self-determination of each people seems to be disappearing, the call of the World Humanist Forum to reflect and act collectively to build the world in which we want to live takes on great…

Dragana Zivancevic is currently Vice-President of IPB and a member of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Inc. (IPAN). IPAN represents over 50 organisational and 200 individual members. It is a national body comprised of peace organisations, faith organisations, trade unions and environmental and anti-nuclear groups.

Owen Tudor is IPB’s current Vice-President. He is also the Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, which brings together 70 million workers in 46 Commonwealth countries and a member of the Executive Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UK and the international board of CHRI. He was Deputy General Secretary of the International…

Joseph Gerson is the co-president of International Peace Bureau and President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. His books include With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.

Across headlines and political speeches, we hear constant warnings about the “end” or “collapse” of democracy. The assumption is clear: democracy is a fixed, universally understood system now under threat. But this framing obscures a deeper reality. Democracy has never meant one thing. Across history, it has carried different meanings for different people, at different…

By: Luc Triangle, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the World Economic Froum 2026 The concept of Common Security is about addressing root causes of instability: poverty, environmental degradation, exclusion and erosion of trust. The approach is the cornerstone of sustainable, predictable and profitable global business. Such security is not an abstract vision –…

Statement by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, January 20, 2026. The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security opposes and condemns President Trump’s imperial and neocolonial campaign of coercion to seize Greenland, an integral domain of Denmark.  Trump’s ambitions for Greenland are part of the increased strategic and commercial competition for influence…

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney declared the end of the rules-based international system and called on states to unite to better counter the intimidation of “hegemonic powers.” He delivered a hard-hitting speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together the global economic and political elite. Never before had a Canadian…

Maria Corina Machado said it was a “historic day for us Venezuelans” as she handed President Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. For the pro-Israel, far-right opposition figure in Venezuela, being welcomed to the White House may have been a historic day. But for those of us interested in peace and justice, the only history the…