IPB - International Peace Bureau

15/06/2026

🌊☮️ WEBINAR: Militarizing the Baltic Sea

Join us on June 20, we will examine the expanding military presence in the Baltic Sea region, NATO's role, environmental concerns, and the challenges facing peace movements today.

🔗 Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wHDrUF4VQrSksiLHo5sxkA

🗓 Saturday, June 20, 2026
🕘 US Pacific: 9:00 AM | US Central: 11:00 AM | US Eastern: 12:00 PM | Stockholm: 6:00 PM | St. Petersburg: 7:00 PM

Featured speakers:

🎙️ Oleg V. Bodrov – physicist, ecologist, documentary filmmaker, and international peace activist. A Board Member of the International Peace Bureau and coordinator of the Baltic Civil Peace Initiative, Bodrov has spent decades advocating for environmental protection, nuclear disarmament, and peace in the Baltic region.

🎙️ Agneta Norberg – veteran Swedish peace activist and founding member of Women for Peace. For over four decades she has organized international peace marches, campaigned against nuclear weapons, and worked with the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

15/06/2026

De sterke groei van militaire uitgaven heeft weinig te maken met de veiligheid van Oekraïne, en al helemaal niet met vrede. Integendeel, het maakt de wereld onveiliger en het maakt Europa armer en kwetsbaarder. De vakbonden zouden hier meer op moeten hameren in hun acties tegen de bezuinigingen.

15/06/2026

Strong glimpse of hope from Italy/Aviano Air base protests!

🌈✌️ Thousands marched for peace in Aviano, Italy, on June 7, carrying a clear message: “Against war, rearmament, and nuclear warheads.”

The peace march, attended by an estimated 2,000–3,000 people, began in Piazza Duomo and continued to the U.S. military base, bringing together peace activists, trade unionists, anti-war organizations, and representatives from across the political spectrum.

At a time of growing militarization and rising global tensions, participants called for diplomacy, disarmament, and an end to war.

Find out more: https://www.telefriuli.it/cronaca/aviano-quasi-tremila-persone-al-corteo-per-la-pace-2/

15/06/2026

: Unions win global protection standard for platform workers! 🙌

🗣️ “Platform workers can now use this Convention to organise in trade unions, just like other workers to defend their rights and interests. ” Luc Triangle, ITUC General Secretary

🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/F6UiOP7

15/06/2026

14/06/2026

Welfare Not Warfare! The International Peace Bureau (IPB), together with our governance members and peace movement allies, stands with the Stop ReArm Europe coalition in calling on EU and national decision-makers to invest in people—not militarization.

We demand investments in healthcare, education, decent work, housing, climate justice, international solidarity, diplomacy, arms control, and nuclear disarmament.

As part of the Stop ReArm Europe coalition, we urge Members of the European Parliament to reject any long-term EU budget that allocates €131 billion to defence, security, and space while cutting social and cohesion funding.

We also carried the voice of our GCOMS - Global Campaign on Military Spending, Peace and Climate Justice initiatives, and No to War - No to NATO, demanding that governments move the money from weapons and war to peace, social justice, climate action, and human security.

Public money should build peace, protect people, and safeguard our planet—not fuel an arms race.

14/06/2026

Welfare Not Warfare! Today in Brussels, we joined more than 12,000 peacebuilders, activists, trade unionists, and community members to send a clear message: our taxes should fund healthcare, education, social protection, climate action, and DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS —not weapons and war.

We OPPOSE the European Union's and NATO's drive to rearm and reject the idea that security can be built through militarization. Real security comes from INVESTING IN PEOPLE, justice, cooperation, diplomacy, and a livable planet.

OUR money should improve lives, not fuel war. Our future should be built on PEACE, not fear.

WELFARE NOT WARFARE!

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