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Jan 9, 2012, 4:50pm
FOR
The Fellowship of Reconciliation has exciting plans for 2012! Thanks to your support, we are building on the success of our recent campaigns and projects — as well as the momentum that the global movement for peace, justice, and nonviolent...
Jan 3, 2012, 10:07am
Kathy Kelly
by Kathy Kelly and the Afghan Youth Peace VolunteersKabul - Bibi Sadia and her husband Baba share a humble home with their son, his wife, and their two little children. An Afghan human rights advocate suggested that we listen to Bibi’s stories...
Dec 26, 2011, 3:52pm
Kathy Kelly
Beneath our flat, here in Kabul, wedding guests crowded into a restaurant and celebrated throughout the night. Guests sounded joyful and the music, mostly disco, thumped loudly. When the regular call to prayer sounded out at 5:20 a.m., the sounds...
Dec 8, 2011, 5:16pm
FOR
This year has been a full and momentous one for all of us.This month, we celebrate International Human Rights Day. Because of your support, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has been able to spend the entire year working for human rights, ...
Dec 5, 2011, 3:31pm
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Last week, 31 peace activists were found guilty on two charges of disorderly conduct for their role in an April 22, 2011 protest at the Hancock Air National Guard Base in upstate New York. They and seven others, known as the “Hancock 38,...
Nov 7, 2011, 2:51pm
Rene Wadlow
Arnaud Desjardins (1925-2011) was a leading figure in introducing the broader French public to the philosophies and religious practices of Asia. His films devoted to Tibetan Buddhist leaders, Indian religious teachers, Japanese Zen philosophers, and...
Oct 27, 2011, 5:32pm
Leila Zand
The Fellowship of Reconciliation has been against the war and occupation of Afghanistan from the beginning. FOR’s direct work on Afghanistan started with “Our Journey to Smile,” a collaborative project with the Afghan Youth Peace...
Oct 19, 2011, 8:47am
Leila Zand
The people aren’t free, yetBy the Afghan Youth Peace VolunteersFor a long time, the ordinary people of Afghanistan have felt fatefully robbed by its geography.We aren’t a free people.34-year-old Afghan human rights activist...
Oct 18, 2011, 10:14am
Kathy Kelly
By Johnny Barber“All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.” Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, 1919. In Kabul, the children are everywhere. You see them scrounging through trash....
