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Selective Justice and the Crisis of International Law
In recent years, a growing number of observers across the world have begun to question whether the principles of international law are applied equally to all nations. The ideals of human rights, sovereignty, and the rules of war are frequently presented as universal standards meant to guide global conduct. Yet the realities of contemporary geopolitics…
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Why’d The US Temporarily Waive Sanctions On India’s Purchase Of Russian Oil?
The “politically inconvenient” truth is that the US is unilaterally reshaping the world order in a bid to restore unipolarity, and regardless of one’s opinion about this, it’s objectively achieved some tangible progress as of late. Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett announced that Indian refiners had just been provided with a 30-day waiver to purchase Russian…
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Britain’s role in attacks on Cyprus, Venezuela, and Iran
Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution…
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International Women’s day: cyclops monocular vision and old ways of thinking will destroy the world, but there is a way out!
(Credit image Wikipedia: patriarchal ancestors, the cyclops monsters drinking wine) Today most occidental organizations are rooted in historical European, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian traditions. Even though the women’s movement has succeeded to bring great changes in the world, these organizations and structures still influence the world and events with a monocular vision – (a cyclops’…
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Com treballar els drets humans i la noviolència amb joves: cinc manuals amb recursos educatius
Professorat, educadors socials, entitats juvenils o monitors de lleure sovint es troben amb una pregunta difícil: com parlar amb joves de racisme, desigualtats, crisi climàtica o drets humans sense caure en discursos abstractes? Per donar eines concretes a aquests espais educatius, l’Institut NOVACT de Noviolència i el Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL) publiquem cinc manuals…
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Massive US War Spending Hike Raises Debt, Taxes, Doubts
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 27 2026 (IPS) – As US President Donald Trump pushes the world to war, arms spending has been rising worldwide. Wars secure more budgetary allocations, mainly benefiting the US-dominated military-industrial complex. US military spending increases After bombing Venezuela, the Trump administration raised its war budget from $1.0…
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Macron’s “Advanced Deterrence”: A Dangerous Shift in French Nuclear Policy
By: Alain Ruoy, IPB Vice President and Le Mouvement de la Paix President French | English On April 2, 2026, at L’Ile Longue nuclear military base in Brittany, Emmanuel Macron gave an extremely bellicose, dangerous, and irresponsible speech on French nuclear weapons. Macron developed a new concept, that of “advanced deterrence”, which consists of positioning…
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Statement by the World Peace Foundation RDCONGO Africa: In response to the attacks against Iran and the military escalation in the Middle East
In response to the attacks against Iran and the military escalation in the Middle East The World Peace Foundation DRCongo Africa expresses its deep concern and solidarity with the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in condemning the attacks carried out by the United States and Israel against Iran. These military actions constitute a serious violation of…
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For a New Foundation of International Institutions

The United States’ withdrawal from UNESCO,combined with the drastic reduction of its financial aid to UN agencies promoting the achievement of the SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals), was already undermining the objective of “human security” theorized by the UNDP in 1994 and progressively highlighted by various UN agencies, as acknowledged for example by Bertrand Badie in his…
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L’assassinat de la defensora de drets humans Yanar Mohammed: un cop per al moviment feminista i la societat civil a l’Iraq

L’assassinat de l’activista feminista i defensora de drets humans Yanar Mohammed, el passat 2 de març a Bagdad, ha provocat una profunda preocupació entre les organitzacions de la societat civil que treballen per la defensa dels drets humans a l’Iraq. Yanar Mohammed va ser presidenta i cofundadora de l’Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)…