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More than 20 world leaders — along with global organizations — published a commentary on Tuesday calling for a worldwide treaty to prepare for future pandemics taking into account lessons learned from COVID-19: Stating that COVID is the biggest threat to global stability since the 1940s, they compared the current climate to that […]
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20 World Leaders Sign ‘Treaty’ saying COVID Biggest Threat To The World Ever
April 1st, 2021 
Awake Goy 20 World Leaders Sign ‘Treaty’: COVID Biggest Threat To World Since Nazi Germany In The 1940s
March 31st, 2021 Awake Goy More than 20 world leaders — along with global organizations — published a commentary on Tuesday calling for a worldwide treaty to prepare for future pandemics taking into account lessons learned from COVID-19: Stating that COVID is the biggest threat to global stability since the 1940s, they compared the current climate to that of the […]
World Leaders Call For International Pandemic Treaty, But Short On Details
March 30th, 2021 Awake Goy LONDON (AP) — More than 20 heads of government and global agencies called in a commentary published Tuesday for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness that they say will protect future generations in the wake of COVID-19. But there were few details to explain how such an agreement might actually compel countries to act more […]
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No Comments »Protests over Turkey’s withdrawal from women’s treaty
March 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Istanbul on Saturday after Turkey pulled out of an international agreement designed to protect women from domestic violence. The move has sparked outrage both in Turkey and around the world. Demonstrators voiced their anger at the U-turn by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after originally Turkey ratified the […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Quits European Treaty on Violence Against Women
March 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on as he addresses the media after the Friday prayers in Istanbul, Turkey March 12, 2021. Photo:] Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, ministers and an official notice said on Saturday, prompting criticism from those who […]
Posted in erdogan, Middle East Tags: against, Erdogan, european, quits, treaty, Turkey, Violence No Comments »Claudia Orange describes the day the Treaty was first signed at Waitangi and explores the differences in the English and te reo Māori versions of te Tiriti
February 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Excerpts from ‘The Treaty of Waitangi’ by Dame Claudi Orange, recognized authority on the Treaty. She is a distinguished historian, and the author of The Treaty of Waitangi (1987) and An Illustrated History of the Treaty (2021). “…all Māori leaders signed a copy of the Māori language Tiriti, which did not convey the full meaning […]
Republicans Should Insist Biden Submit the JCPOA as a Treaty to the Senate
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at The Graduate Center of CUNY in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, US, July 11, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri. JNS.org – The Obama-Biden administration claimed in 2015 that the Iran nuclear deal—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or […]
U.S. Extends Sole Remaining Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia
February 4th, 2021 Awake Goy The United States joined Russia on Wednesday in extending the two countries’ last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement the U.S. would use the five years of the New START treaty’s renewal to pursue limits […]
US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Only First Step In Ensuring ‘Future Existence’ Of Humanity
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Only First Step In Ensuring ‘Future Existence’ Of Humanity Above photo: Richard Young. NOTE: Listen to the Clearing the FOG interview with Seth Shelden of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and how to ratify it in the United States. The total […]
In Phone Call, Biden, Putin Discuss Extending Nuclear Arms Treaty
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Russia and the United States have struck a deal to extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, a move that preserves the last major pact of its kind between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. The White House did not immediately confirm the Kremlin’s announcement but […]
How The Nuclear Ban Treaty Impacts The United States
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: From WILPF. Why the United States must embrace its entry into force. The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on January 22, 2021, two days following the inauguration of Joseph Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Despite the TPNW’s widespread support throughout the […]
The Treaty To Ban The Bomb Takes Effect
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: The Golden Rule sails in the waters off Diamond Head last August. Fifty-one nations have now ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Will the United States sign? Three and a half years ago, on July 7, 2017, the United Nations General Assembly approved the language of this treaty by a […]
Veteran Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty
January 20th, 2021 Awake Goy By Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. January 19, 2021 | Educate! Above photo: Sailing in Bellingham, Washington Harbor, on The Golden Rule, August 20, 2016. Gerry Condon. As a veteran concerned about issues of war and peace, I am happy to celebrate the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the important new international […]
Billboards Inform That The Nuclear Ban Treaty Takes Effect
January 20th, 2021 Awake Goy By the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Popular Resistance. January 19, 2021 | Educate! Above photo: Image of the billboard. Beginning January 18th, four billboards around Puget Sound will display the following paid public service announcement (PSA): NUCLEAR WEAPONS BANNED BY NEW U.N. TREATY; Get them out of Puget Sound! Included in the advertisement […]
The Significance Of The Nuclear Ban Treaty
October 28th, 2020 Awake Goy Peter Kuznick answered the following questions from Mohamed Elmaazi of Sputnik Radio and agreed to let World BEYOND War publish the text. 1) What’s the significance of Honduras being the latest country to join the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons? What a remarkable and ironic development, especially after the U.S. had been […]
UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Likely To Enter Force Early Next Year
October 6th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: From In Depth News. New York -A U.N.-adopted nuclear ban treaty is likely to enter into force early next year as the number of signatories is anticipated to reach the needed threshold of 50 soon, possibly later this month, a diplomatic source said Friday. According to the source and the International Campaign to […]
“Any Inbound Missile Will Be Seen As Nuclear” – Russia’s Military Warns Amid Arms Treaty Talks
August 8th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Though all eyes have been focused on the emerging ‘new Cold war’ scenario between the US and China, Russia’s military has just issued a rare and eye-opening statement which represents perhaps the most severe threat to come out of ongoing New START extension negotiations thus far. “Russia will perceive any ballistic missile launched at its […]
Protests in Turkey over possible withdrawal from treaty preventing domestic violence
August 5th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Thousands of women across Turkey protested on Wednesday, demanding the government does not withdraw from an international treaty that prevents domestic violence. The Istanbul Convention is the world’s first binding instrument to prevent and combat violence against women, from marital rape to female genital mutilation. The protests began in July after a ruling party official […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: domestic, possible, preventing, protests, treaty, Turkey, withdrawal No Comments »Poland says it will QUIT European treaty on violence against women over requirement to teach children ‘ideological’ gender theory
July 29th, 2020 Awake Goy 
The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy has been directed to take the steps necessary to withdraw from the Council of Europe’s so-called Istanbul Convention, Poland’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday. Poland ratified the treaty, which was signed in haste in 2012, back in 2015, but countries such as neighboring Hungary, Lithuania and […]
Posted in World News Tags: against, european, Poland, requirement, treaty, Violence, women No Comments »US troops to remain in South Korea even if peace treaty signed with North – Moon
May 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy “US troops stationed in South Korea are an issue regarding the alliance between South Korea and the United States. It has nothing to do with signing peace treaties,” Moon’s spokesperson Kim Eui-kyeom said at a press conference. The statement came in response to a Foreign Affairs magazine article written by presidential adviser, Moon Cung-in, in […]
