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Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament

Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament

Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released "Scientists against rearmament - A manifesto" and are calling on scientists, engineers, medical professionals, mathematicians, scholars, and the broader science community to support their stance. Here is the link to the

Global Violence and Childhood Trauma: Implications for Research and Action

Global Violence and Childhood Trauma: Implications for Research and Action

Your Voice: A Call for Contributors

Your Voice: A Call for Contributors

Demand that Emory University Reinstate Umaymah Mohammad

Demand that Emory University Reinstate Umaymah Mohammad

Adbul Minty at a podium at the International Atomic Energy Agency.

How Nuclear-Armed Apartheid was Defeated: An Interview with Abdul Minty

Two actionists on a roof using paint to disrupt a weapons factory.

On Pacifism

A mass funeral in Gaza with mourners and shrouded corpses.

Genocide for Skeptics

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Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament

Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament

Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released "Scientists against rearmament - A manifesto" and are calling on scientists, engineers, medical professionals, mathematicians, scholars, and the broader science community to support their stance. Here is the link to the

Demand that Emory University Reinstate Umaymah Mohammad

Demand that Emory University Reinstate Umaymah Mohammad

Protest on both sides of a canal and on a bridge at the University of Amsterdam, 2024.

Petition: Stop European funding for Israeli institutions

President Javier Milei of Argentina holding a chainsaw at a campaign event.

Send a letter opposing the devastation of science in Argentina

Photograph of Members of the South African Delegation at the ICJ, January 2024. Photo credit: ICJ

Urge Governments to Invoke the Genocide Convention

Screen capture of Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza event, 9 December 2023.

Sign the Scientists’ Declaration Against the Palestinian Genocide

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Webinar: International student movements against genocide in Palestine

Webinar: International student movements against genocide in Palestine

Webinar at UTC (GMT) 15:00 on Saturday, 2 November 2024. Register. The Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people of the last year, representing just the latest chapter in decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and displacement, has resulted in a dramatic expansion in the world-wide movement in support of Palestinian

Al-Quds at night

Watch: Technology for apartheid and genocide

IUS Webinar poster: Jane Duncan and Matt Mahmoudi

Webinar announcement: Technology for apartheid and genocide

Image of Professor Richard Falk, keynote speaker at the Convention.

International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science: Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza

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Appeal For a West Asia Free of Nuclear Weapons

Appeal For a West Asia Free of Nuclear Weapons

by Giorgio Ferrari and Emanuela Bavazzano Editorial note: As scientists, we are deeply concerned about the threat of nuclear weapons, particularly in the context of West Asia ('the Middle East'). Since 1974, the UN General Assembly has passed 44 resolutions urging the establishment of a denuclearized zone in

Dr Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the President-elect of Mexico, sitting in a car. [Image: Luis Antonio Rojas]

Claudia Sheinbaum: activist, scientist, politician, and the first woman president of Mexico

University students at the University of Michigan, on April 28, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

News Updates

New York State Troopers charge in to arrest Stony Brook protesters. [Photo: Josh Dubnau]

Professor Josh Dubnau, IUS member, arrested at raid of Stony Brook University pro-Palestine encampment

A line of mostly women, some in hijab, carrying a banner that says "CEASEFIRE NOW!"

Calls for Action from Scientists

Image of Surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta, Rector of the University of Glasgow. [image credit: Middle East Monitor]

Europe's academics speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Perspectives

Global Violence and Childhood Trauma: Implications for Research and Action

Global Violence and Childhood Trauma: Implications for Research and Action

by Danielle E. Dalechek Systemic violence is on the rise globally, forcing generations of children into dysfunctional patterns of development. What happens to a child that grows up in an environment of violence, chaos, and a lack of safety? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are defined as traumatic events that occur

Two actionists on a roof using paint to disrupt a weapons factory.

On Pacifism

A mass funeral in Gaza with mourners and shrouded corpses.

Genocide for Skeptics

Appeal For a West Asia Free of Nuclear Weapons

Appeal For a West Asia Free of Nuclear Weapons

Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe

Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe

Dwight Eisenhower gives his 1961 Farewell Address

Against Militarism

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Webinar: International student movements against genocide in Palestine

Watch: Technology for apartheid and genocide

Webinar announcement: Technology for apartheid and genocide

International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science: Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza