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World Future Council Condemns Acts Of Aggression And Calls For Restoration Of Peace And International Law
Friday, 25 February 2022, 6:41 am | World Future Council
24th of February 2022 - The World Future Council condemns the Russian military action against Ukraine as an act of aggression that is clearly in violation of international law. Regardless of any grievances and unresolved conflicts that Russia may have with ... More >>
World Future Council Calls On Governments To Maintain Dialogue, As The Conflict Around Ukraine Escalates
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 8:08 am | World Future Council
23rd of February 2022 - The World Future Council expresses grave concern about the escalating conflict(s) between Russia and Ukraine (and between Russia and NATO and its members), the catastrophic human suffering caused by any armed conflict, the ... More >>
In Open Letter, Prominent Leaders Urge Nations To Adopt Policies To Reduce Nuclear Dangers And Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 7:34 am | World Future Council
January 24, 2022 An Open Letter urging nuclear weapons states to adopt no-first-use and other policies to ensure a nuclear war is never fought has been endorsed by prominent signatories, and was delivered today to leaders of the “nuclear ... More >>
Presidents Biden And Putin Urged To Adopt Nuclear No-first-use Policies
Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 5:40 am | World Future Council
June 15, 2021 In an Open Letter to US President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin , sent prior to their June 16 Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the two leaders are urged to use the opportunity of their meeting to reduce tensions between ... More >>
Women’s Role In Disarmament Highlighted On International Day
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 5:12 am | World Future Council
Monday May 24, 2021, New York, Berlin, Prague - Today, in conjunction with the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament , the World Future Council (WFC) and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) highlight the voices and important ... More >>
World Future Council Members And Right Livelihood Laureates Call For The Abolition Of Nuclear Weapons
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 7:27 am | World Future Council
World Future Council Members and Right Livelihood Laureates call for the abolition of nuclear weapons to assure a sustainable future In a joint statement released today, 57 members of the World Future Council and recipients of the Right Livelihood Award ... More >>
Council commends fossil fuel and nuclear weapon divestment
Thursday, 19 July 2018, 10:50 am | World Future Council
Another step towards future justice: World Future Council commends fossil fuel and nuclear weapons divestment policies in Göttingen Hamburg / Göttingen (Germany), July 18 2018 – The University of Göttingen (Germany) announced yesterday that ... More >>
12 countries sign Declaration on Securing Children’s Rights
Saturday, 2 December 2017, 12:59 pm | World Future Council
The signatories from across Africa and Asia commit to end violence against children, strengthen child rights and advocate to increase budgets for children Zanzibar, 1 December 2017 – At the International Child Rights Conference in Zanzibar on sharing ... More >>
The Bregenz Declaration – A Call to our Collective Conscious
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 10:19 pm | World Future Council
Hamburg, 5 April 2017 – After the World Future Forum 2017 in Bregenz, Austria, the World Future Council now publishes its “Bregenz Declaration” . The Councillors from governments, parliaments, civil society, indigenous peoples, academia, the arts ... More >>
5 years after Fukushima
Friday, 11 March 2016, 12:09 pm | World Future Council
Hamburg, March 10, 2016 : This week marks the five-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake followed by the tsunami and the nuclear meltdown of Fukushima nuclear power plants on March 11th, 2011. On this occasion, the World Future Council (WFC) ... More >>
Calling on world leaders to step up action
Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 9:45 am | World Future Council
Calling on world leaders to step up action to protect refugee women and children from violence More >>
World Future Council calls for "Irish debt cut" for Greece
Saturday, 20 June 2015, 10:35 am | World Future Council
Hamburg, 19 June 2015 – The Euro states collectively caused the crisis and must therefore solve it together. In an appeal to overcome the crisis , financial experts of the World Future Council call for an end to austerity measures to restore European ... More >>
Global Alliance calls for quality criteria for energy target
Thursday, 9 April 2015, 1:17 pm | World Future Council
Global Alliance calls for quality criteria for 100% Renewable Energy Targets Hamburg/ Seoul, April 8, 2015 - An increasing number of local governments is setting ambitious renewable energy targets to combat human induced climate chaos. In a joint ... More >>
Ending violence against women and girls
Friday, 6 June 2014, 10:58 pm | World Future Council
Twenty-five policies on ending violence against women and girls have been nominated for the Future Policy Award 2014. This was announced by the World Future Council, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women today. Violence against women and girls ... More >>
100% renewable energy is only a matter of political will
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 11:35 am | World Future Council
Hamburg, 11th March, 2014 - Three years after the Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Global100RE Ambassadors are highlighting the need to refrain from using hazardous nuclear and fossil energy sources and instead shift towards 100% renewable energy. ... More >>
NZ's nuclear-free legislation wins top disarmament award
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 12:55 pm | World Future Council
In 1987, against the backdrop of rising Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, New Zealand passed its ground-breaking Nuclear-Free Act, which banned nuclear weapons and meant US nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships were ... More >>
NZ nuclear-free legislation wins top disarmament award
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 9:28 am | World Future Council
In 1987, against the backdrop of rising Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, New Zealand passed its groundbreaking Nuclear-Free Act, which banned nuclear weapons and meant US nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships were ... More >>
New Zealand shortlisted for Future Policy Awards 2013
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 10:15 am | World Future Council
Seven disarmament policies from five continents have been shortlisted as final contenders for the 2013 Future Policy Award. More >>
“An Unbearable Inheritance to Future Generations”
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 3:02 pm | World Future Council
“An Unbearable Inheritance to Future Generations” Global coalition of “Alternative Nobel Prize” Recipients and members of the World Future Council condemn several nations' nuclear power expansion plans More >>
Policy Hearing Ends: Affirmative Action for African Forests
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 2:23 pm | World Future Council
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania/Hamburg, Germany. 12 July 2013: The 2nd Inter-Parliamentary Hearing Forests for People has concluded with affirmative action by legislators and policymakers for forests for people in Africa and the adoption of policy recommendations ... More >>
