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WILPF UK taking steps to realise the Nuclear Ban Treaty

| 14 May, 2018

At a London training day, women prepare themselves to lobby for nuclear disarmament.

Paula Shaw, Dr Rebecca Johnson and Sheila Triggs (left-right) at a WILPF UK training day on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in London, 7 Ap

CAAT | 04 May, 2018

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has been given permission to keep putting the British government's arms trade policies on trial – over the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

On 4 May, the British court of appeal granted permission for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) to appeal the legality of British arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

| 03 May, 2018

A Metropolitan Police disciplinary board has found against one of its own, a former undercover police officer with the notorious Special Demonstration Squad who deceived three women activists into relationships.

British undercover police officer Jim Boyling

Today, 3 May 2018, former undercover police officer Read More

Sustainable diets: Interview with Dr Pamela Mason and Professor Tim Lang

Ian Sinclair | 30 April, 2018

What is a sustainable diet? Is a vegan diet necessarily sustainable? And what's blocking moves to a more sustainable food system? Ian Sinclair investigates.

Last year public health nutritionist Dr Pamela Mason and Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City University of London, published their book Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Co

Benjamin Kaplan | 29 April, 2018

Celebrating CND's 60th anniversary with profiles of some of its offices around England, Scotland and Wales.

CND Cymru

CND Cymru is the center of the Welsh anti-nuclear movement. Before it was established in 1981, the Welsh branch of the CND was made up of a collection of smaller groups spread out across the region.

People's weapons inspection in Worcestershire

PN staff | 29 April, 2018

A Yemen-related nonviolent direct action near Birmingham.

People's Weapons Inspectors, Roxel missile components factory, 9 April 2018 On 9 April, the People's Weapons Inspectors visited a Roxel factory which builds propulsion systems for miss

Who Calls Anyone Civilised?

Cathy Breen | 31 March, 2018

Iraq is the forgotten war that continues to destroy lives, writes a long-time visitor to Iraq, US peace activist Cathy Breen.

Building in Mosul, Iraq, decimated by bombing, March 2018. Photo: Abu Mohammed

Ethnic cleansing in the Jordan Valley

David Polden | 23 November, 2017

Three Palestinian communities face immediate expulsion from their homes in the Jordan Valley and near Jerusalem, and two more in the coming months, warns the Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem.