by Matilda Byrne | 28 Jan 2019 | Other
SafeGround is proud of its newly acquired membership to the International Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. This movement is concerned with lethal autonomous weapons systems, and is supporting efforts by the international community to introduce legally binding...
by Helen Stanger | 22 Jan 2018 | Other
Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the...
by Helen Stanger | 22 Jan 2018 | Other
We have heard via the International Campaign to Ban Landmines of a landmine “accident”. On September 26th 2017, four members of the same family died from the explosion of an anti-personnel mine in the town of Murrotone. Two people died on the spot and others on the...
by Matilda Byrne | 4 Oct 2017 | Other
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, to which we belong, held its annual national conference in September. Hosted in Melbourne by the Maritime Union, its theme “War, Peace & Independence: Keep Australia out of US Wars” had common themes of...
by Lorel Thomas | 2 Oct 2017 | Other
On August 11, I attended a Disarmament Dinner organised by ICAN, to celebrate the historic UN adoption of the treaty to abolish nuclear weapons. ICAN began in Australia, and speakers outlined the history of this movement and called for support to encourage the...
by Helen Stanger | 1 Oct 2017 | Other
Human misery is rarely straightforward, and more often than not, is compounded by other factors. And so it is for the displaced Rohingya Muslim people fleeing for their lives following attacks on their villages, now being assailed also by torrential monsoon rain. Now...
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