Month: August 2022

Pax Christi Welcomes New Members

Our global movement for peace and nonviolence is growing! We recently welcomed three new members from Africa. We look forward to working with them and other regional partners to promote active nonviolence, education for peacebuilding, and advocacy. AJECL (Rwanda). The Youth Association of Saint Charles Lwanga invests its efforts in revitalizing youth to play a

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Should ‘killer robots’ be banned? The forum designed to decide is failing to act. A new path is needed.

Article by Jonathan Frerichs, Pax Christi International representative in Geneva Autonomous robots capable of killing human beings should be banned. Most governments at a United Nations forum tackling this issue would agree. But the forum is deadlocked because the Russian government refuses to allow any substantive progress. Dozens of countries have proposed ways for the

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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

9 August 2022 The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples promotes national and international action to honour the cultures and uphold the rights of the more than 370 million Indigenous people of the world. Pax Christi International is actively committed to the defense of Indigenous peoples’ rights, their traditional lands and waters, and working

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