Peace & Progress Public Meeting Invitation:
Migration & Human Rights in a Global Economic Crisis

To be held in Birmingham on Saturday 20 June - venue and times to be confirmed. For more information on the event, please click here.

A Tale of Two Conventions

With both civil liberties and the global economic climate currently very much in the spotlight, this report provides details of two recent conferences that set about to address the issues we face.

Binyam Mohamed
18 March 2009

Over recent months Peace & Progress has been covering the story of Binyam Mohamed, the UK resident recently freed from Guantanamo Bay. Please click here to read a BBC interview with Mr Mohamed.

FREE PALESTINE

Please see this link for archived material on the Gaza conflict.

The Right to Self Determination

Click here to read Peace & Progress' statement on the right to self-determination for the Palestinian territories.

Palestine Web Resources

For more information on the situation in Gaza and more general information on the Palestinian Territories please visit the following links:

Palestinian Solidarity Campaign
A British lobby group campaigning for the right to self-determination for people in the Palestinian Territories.

Islamic Relief
Organisation distributing food and medical relief to the people of Gaza.

Medical Aid for Palestinians
Group dedicated to bringing vital health resources to the Occupied Territories

Interpal
British charity raising funds for the Gaza Emergency Appeal

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (Gaza)
Human rights news and information with the latest developments from Gaza

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Worldwide Jewish organisation supporting the liberation of Palestine

Gush Shalom
Israeli-run website advocating a move towards peace and conciliation by Israelis with the people of Palestine.

B'Tselem
Human rights information site for the Occupied Territories

The Rights of the Child

There are are 1.5 million people living on the Gaza strip. Half of them are children. During the Israeli attack on Gaza at least 50 children have been killed. Once again we are witness to the fact that children and young people are amongst the most vulnerable in society. They number highest amongst the victims of poverty, gross exploitation and war throughout the globe. We affirm unconditional commitment to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.

Click here to read the Convention.

Updated: the UK government's treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is 'abusive' and 'dehumanising', it has been claimed. Click here to read more.

To read more on Rights of the Child, please click here.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
Child Poverty Updates

During October and November the JRF published a number of detailed reports on the social cost of child poverty. To learn more about the reports and read them in full online, please click here to visit the Joseph Rowntree Foundation child poverty website.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The 60th anniversary of the UDHR was in 2008.

Read the entire text of the Declaration

'The Declaration was, and remains, a clear statement of principles: the equal rights of men and women, without distinction of any kind (such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion) to self-determination, equality before the law, social progress and better standards of living.

"We believe that these principles, and the laws based on these principles, are fundamental to the prevention of all forms of terror and to the preservation of a democratic law-governed world.'

From the Peace & Progress Manifesto, A World Without Fear or Poverty

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