12Oct 2015 by peacepeople

Nobel peace laureates call on Israel to release whistleblower

Campaigns, Israel/Palestine, Press Releases
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is calling on the Israeli government to lift the restrictions placed on nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu – including a court order preventing the former nuclear technician from leaving the country. Israeli officials jailed Vanunu in 1986, after he reportedly disclosed to media the inner workings of Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant. Vanunu spent 18 years in jail, including 10 years in solitary confinement. Since being released in 2004, Vanunu still faces severe restrictions that violate his rights to freedom of movement, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly. In 2011, the high court of Israel barred him from emigrating from Israel on the grounds that he still poses a threat to national security. Vanunu maintains that he has revealed all that he knows about the Israeli nuclear…
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11Sep 2015 by peacepeople

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate appeals to Shimon Perez and Israeli Government, to do the right thing and Free Vanunu…..

Israel/Palestine, Press Releases
Today an Israeli court decided to keep Nuclear Whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu under house arrest for giving an Israeli media interview. Vanunu’s appeal against house arrest in connection with this interview has been denied, and this is added to the unjust and inhuman treatment he has received for revealing in l986 that Israel was building nuclear bombs. He has served l8 years in prison, including eleven In solitary and since release has been a virtual prisoner within Jerusalem, unable to leave the country, use internet, speak to journalists, foreigners, etc., all actions against international law as he is a prisoner of conscience. Maguire said: ‘After 3l years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli gov.,…
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08Sep 2015 by peacepeople

MAIREAD MAGUIRE APPEALS TO UK GOVERNMENT TO TALK TO SYRIAN GOVERNMENT AND ISLAMIC MILITANTS, IN ORDER TO HELP SOLVE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS OF REFUGEES

Press Releases, Syria
Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, today called upon the UK Government to move from military proposals, such as bombing in Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling one of the greatest tragedies of human suffering, to face Europe since the Second World War, i.e. the refugee crisis. The arrival of thousands of refugees and migrants from middle east and African countries into Europe, many of whom have died on the journey, forces us to ask ‘how can they be helped immediately’,? Why are they fleeing their countries,? and how can the root cause of the problem be solved.? Bombing of Syria, as proposed by the UK Prime Minister will only force more refugees to flee Syria taking extraordinary risks with their lives in order to find some security and safety from…
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07Jul 2015 by peacepeople

Mairead Maguire Talks About Her Experience In The 2015 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WALK FOR PEACE AND REUNIFICATION OF KOREA – DELEGATION VISITS NORTH/SOUTH KOREA ON MAY, 19th – 25th 2015

Events, Press Releases
The year 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War. The temporary ceasefire has never been replaced with a Peace Treaty and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) continues to divide the country. The DMZ with its barbed wire, armed soldiers on both sides, and littered with thousands of explosive landmines, is the most militarized border in the world. Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was brewing, the United States unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel – with the former Soviet Union’s agreement – dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Koreans had no desire to be divided, or decision-making power to stop their country from being divided; now seven decades later the conflict on the…
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