by Feryal Awan | Oct 13, 2017 | Campaign Updates, News, Child Recruitment, Health Through Peace, Peace & Security
On Sunday 8 October, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted overwhelmingly in favour of raising the minimum enlistment age from 16 to 18. SNP’s youth branch, which tabled the motion, used our research and other resources to argue that joining the armed forces under... by Feryal Awan | Sep 20, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Press Releases, Health Through Peace, Nuclear Weapons, Peace & Security
The following joint statement has been released by IPPNW, the World Medical Association, the International Council of Nurses, and the World Federation of Public Health Associations on September 18, 2017. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opens for... by Feryal Awan | Sep 11, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Press Releases, Health Through Peace, Nuclear Weapons, Peace & Security
IPPNW released the following statement on September 5 from the 22nd World Congress at York University, after consultations among members of the Executive Committee, key affiliate leaders who have visited the DPRK, and members of Korean Anti-War Peace Physicians, the... by Carla Stephan | Sep 1, 2017 | Campaign Updates, News, Nuclear Weapons, Peace & Security
Medical doctors and scientists, including Medact’s director David McCoy, write a letter calling on the British government to immediately begin the process of joining the international treaty demanding the ban of nuclear weapons. Read the letter here. Join... by Carla Stephan | Aug 16, 2017 | Appeals, Campaign Updates, Hiroshima Day
Medact has received a letter from the Mayor of the City of Hiroshima, along with a copy of their Peace Declaration. The Medact Hiroshima Appeal 2017 has just recently launched. It will enable us to continue and grow our work for peace. We join the City of Hiroshima... by Carla Stephan | Aug 10, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Divestment
Are you a member of the British Psychological Society? Members are calling on the British Psychological Society to end its investments in companies in the fossil fuel industry. We have written this Open Letter to the Trustees of the Society following similar calls in... by Carla Stephan | Jul 5, 2017 | Campaign Updates, News, Doctors Against Diesel
There is overwhelming evidence that exposure to small particles and gases from fossil-fuel derived air pollution has major adverse consequences on health. Published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s largest study of air pollution shows... by Carla Stephan | Jun 28, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Doctors Against Diesel
A response has been received from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove, to the Doctors against Diesel response to Prime Minister Theresa May’s Letter in March. Doctors against Diesel’s response included the... by Carla Stephan | Jun 26, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Doctors Against Diesel
Medact is a London-based public health charity that works on environmental health, amongst other things. Medact is the lead organiser of the Doctors Against Diesel campaign which comprises a wide range of academics and clinicians who are concerned about the... by Carla Stephan | Jun 15, 2017 | Campaign Updates, Resources, Climate & Environment, Doctors Against Diesel
We launched our new campaign website for National Clean Air Day. Please take a look – and let us know what you think. You can also follow Doctors Against Diesel on Facebook and... by Frank Boulton | Jun 2, 2017 | Campaign Updates, News, Nuclear Weapons, Peace & Security
The draft of the text of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty was released in Geneva on May 22nd by the president of the negotiating conference, Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica. The text is available here: http://www.icanw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BanDraft.pdf.... by Alice Munro | Apr 26, 2017 | Actions, Campaign Updates, Headlines, News, Sign-Ons, Divestment
It is nearly three years since members of the British Medical Association (BMA) first called for fossil fuel divestment. Despite passing a resolution on climate change that referenced divestment in 2014, there has been no commitment made to begin the process. In...