Here is a collection of international treaties that make wars and even the threat of war illegal, national constitutions that make wars and various activities that facilitate wars illegal, and laws that make killing illegal with no exceptions for the use of missiles or the scale of the slaughter
We ask that the human right to peace be enshrined.
The glory of Pearl Harbor Day still lingered yesterday on Human Rights Day with a Democracy Summit wrapping up and Nobel So-Called Peace Prize laureates talking about U.S. government-approved and -funded journalism.
Nils Melzer (born 1970) is a Swiss academic, author and practitioner in the field of international law. Since 1 November 2016, Melzer has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
By World Federalist Movement, Institute for Global Policy, November 2, 2021.
I don’t like the downsides in these bills at all. I think they’re horrific, disgraceful, and absolutely indefensible. But I think they’re outweighed by the upsides, even in the Senate bill, though the House one is better. Yet, clearly best of all would be for Congress to make use of any of these things, either one of the new bills or the law as it exists today.
The Platform for Peace and Humanity has launched its global advocacy programme titled “Towards the enforcement of the right to peace.”
Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.
Now is the time for accountability for the U.S. assassin drone program.
