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On Sweden Joining NATO: A Letter from FOR-USA to SweFOR

Dear sisters and brothers in the Sweden FOR, Our hearts break for you and your country. Sweden’s expected application to join NATO is a devastating blow for our shared global peace movement. Sweden’s 200 years of stated neutrality and military

May 16, 2022 No Comments

FOR-USA statement on Palestine-Israel

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) Statement on the Situation in Palestine/Israel In the barrage of statistics that are being reported in the aftermath of the most recent violence between Israel and Hamas there are heartbreaking accounts once again of Israel’s disproportionate

May 26, 2021 No Comments

Congress: Support and Fund Unarmed Civilian Protection

Testimony of Mel Duncan before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the United States Congress (March 12, 2019). Madame Chair Lowey, Ranking Member Rogers, and Distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you

March 12, 2019 No Comments

New Korean Summit: Possible Steps Forward for Asian Security

On February 27-28, the leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam. The place of the meeting has symbolic overtones, especially for Americans, that the earlier summit in Singapore did not. The new summit will

February 25, 2019 No Comments

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UN Must Mandate Fact-Finding Mission to English-Speaking Cameroon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Leaders Demand that the U.N. Human Rights Council Mandate a Fact-Finding Mission to English-Speaking Cameroon Press Conferences to be held in three cities on February 7, 2019 PRESS CONTACTS: Geneva: Dr. Bernadette Ateghang, +49 176 8655 4127

February 5, 2019 No Comments

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UN Must Mandate Fact-Finding Mission to English-Speaking Cameroon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Leaders Demand that the U.N. Human Rights Council Mandate a Fact-Finding Mission to English-Speaking Cameroon Press Conferences to be held in three cities on February 7, 2019 PRESS CONTACTS: Geneva: Dr. Bernadette Ateghang, +49 176 8655 4127

February 5, 2019 No Comments

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U.N. Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?

May 29, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping. The first U.N. peacekeeping mission was established on May 29, 1948 when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of U.N. military observers to the Middle

May 24, 2018 No Comments

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U.N. Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?

May 29, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping. The first U.N. peacekeeping mission was established on May 29, 1948 when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of U.N. military observers to the Middle

May 24, 2018 No Comments

As South Sudan Disintegrates, People Move

In an August 17, 2017 call for urgent support, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated: “Over the past 12 months, an average of 1,800 South Sudanese have been arriving in Uganda every day. In addition

August 30, 2017 No Comments

Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour

12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against

June 11, 2017 No Comments

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