Idriss Boufayed is a prisoner of conscience incarcerated for planning a peaceful demonstration http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=399   Adriana Sarmiento Enriquez, 15, has been missing since 18 January. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=405

The Ministry of Defence and the solicitors for a group of Porton Down veterans, have reached a settlement with respect to participation in trials that took place during the Cold War. The trials were designed originally to demonstrate the deterrent capabilities in times of a threat from the use of Continue Reading

The Armed Forces mental health statistics for the second quarter of 2007, published today,  show that the number of personnel assessed and diagnosed with a mental disorder continued to remain low. The figures show that the numbers of active service personnel that were assessed with a mental disorder were 0.5% Continue Reading

"CND is proud to have the support of Mayor Ken Livingstone. Cities are the targets of nuclear weapons, and this is understood by the Mayor, as it is by hundreds of mayors across the world who, like Ken Livingstone, support the Mayor of Hiroshima’s campaign for a nuclear weapon free Continue Reading

We invite you to participate in a lively demonstration against the development of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston and celebrate 50 years of anti-nuclear protest in Britain. This Easter marks the 50th anniversary of the first march to the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston – the heart of Britain’s nuclear weapons programme. Continue Reading

The NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, will travel to Paris on Friday, 1 February 2008. He will meet with President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister François Fillon, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner and Minister of Defence Hervé Morin, as well as with members of the White Book Commission Continue Reading

War crimes and crimes against humanity from the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s risk being left unpunished as a result of a failed UN justice mission. Amnesty International’s report describes the failure of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) International Judges and Prosecutors Programme (Programme) to Continue Reading

We are committed to NATO as a nuclear power and there is no prospect of us discontinuing that alliance or of the United States ceasing to provide NATO with its nuclear capability. In those circumstances it makes no sense for us to renew our own national nuclear weapons at enormous Continue Reading