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IPB Works with Other Networks

SUDAN Kego Kegi: Brothers Alfasio and Johan construct the roof for their new home, having arrived back in their homelands from a Ugandan refugee camp. Their families will join them here once the house is built.

Photographer © Sean Sutton / Panos Pictures

IPB and Other Civil Society Networks

IPB is a member of the following formal or informal networks :

G e n e r a l

  • Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status (CONGO)
  • Federation of International Institutions in Geneva (FIIG)
  • Ubuntu – A network of civil society networks
  • Nobel Peace Laureates’ Annual Summit – co-organised by the City of Rome and the Gorbachev Foundation
  • World Social Forum, International Committee

D i s a r m a m e n t   N e t w o r k s

  • NGO Committee for Disarmament (Geneva) – a sub-committee of CONGO.
    IPB acts as the Geneva secretariat.
  • Abolition 2000 – a Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
  • Biological Weapons Prevention Project
  • Cluster Munitions Coalition
  • European Network Against Arms Trade
  • International Action Network on Small Arms
  • International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  • International Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons

P r e v i o u s

  • World Court Project on the legal status of nuclear weapons
  • Hague Appeal for Peace 1999 + Global Campaign for Peace Education
  • May 24 : International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament
  • World Civil Society Forum, Geneva 2002
  • Barcelona Forum 2004

SUDAN Kobodi village, Kego Kegi District: Joyce dances with her family outside her house which they reconstructed after returning from a refugee camp in a neighbouring country. The land surrounding the village is riddled with unexploded landmines and cannot be cultivated. She says 'All we can do is make and sell charcoal and even that is dangerous'.

Photographer © Sean Sutton / Panos Pictures
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