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UN Security Council Calls for Reduction in Global Military Spending

On Wednesday November 19 2008, the United Nations Security Council, under the presidency of Costa Rica, held an historic open debate on implementation of UN Charter Article 26, which calls for the regulation of armaments in order to insure the leas diversion of human and economic resources from global needs.>>>MORE

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OUT OF CONTROL

IPB Secretary-General Colin Archer comments on the links between the current financial meltdown and over funding of the military:
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Military Spending and Homelessness

Homelessness as we know it will end only when its root causes are attacked with the same vigor and financial investment with which we currently ensure our national defense. Advocates for poor and
homeless people recognize the connection between military spending increases and the prospects for social reinvestments ... > READ MORE

World Council of Churches - World Military Expenditures, Education & Health
Geneva, 2005. Some 25 years ago, in the seventies and eighties, the world seemed acutely aware of the threat hanging over humanity like a Damocles’ sword. Nuclear armament and militarism during the cold war had reached a level that was alarming in such ... > READ MORE
Missing the Mark - Rich Countries' Contribution to Universal Primary Education by 2015
April 2006. On a balmy, September day in New York five years ago, heads of state set themselves eight tough goals for ending global poverty: the Millennium Development Goals. Among the most important of these was universal completion of primary education. Free basic .... > READ MORE

Financing Education
8 April 2002. 125 million children are out of school, and there are nearly one billion illiterate adults. In a rapidly globalising world, the costs of
excluding so many from the economic and political opportunities associated with education are rising sharply, and threaten growing instability. At the Spring Meetings of the World Bank ... > READ MORE

Military Spending vs the Rights of the Child

  1. Action Plan for Governments to Fulfil Medium-Term Development Goals for Children
  2. IPB Paper on Four Key Concepts Art 4 of Convention on Rights of the Child
  3. IPB Memo to UN Committee on Rights of the Child Re Ehiopia Jan '07
  4. Guide for NGOs Reporting to the CRC
  5. Monitoring Implementation of Convention on Rights of the Child - Nine Country Case Studies
  6. Networking for Children's Rights - A Guide for NGOs
  7. South Africa - Childrens' Budget 2006

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