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The Doomsday Clock is now set at 85 seconds to midnight

For the first time in history, the symbolic clock has moved to its most perilous point ever—just 85 seconds from global catastrophe. This historic move was announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board, citing a critical “failure of leadership”...

Trump’s Board of Peace, the UN, Gaza and Opportunism

By Anuradha Chenoy Anuradha Chenoy is an IPB Board member. The thoughts in this article areher own and do not necessarily reflect those of the IPB. Nothing can be more cynical than President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new “Board of Peace” (BoP). Marketed as an international peace-building...

Demand the Immediate Release of Grzegorz Gawel

This petition calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Grzegorz Gawel, a Polish citizen unlawfully detained in Belarus. His imprisonment represents a clear violation of international human rights standards, including freedom of conscience, due process, and protection from arbitrary...

Nuclear weapons in Europe do not make us safer – they make the world more dangerous

Oscar Ernerot of the Olof Palme International Center responds to Daniel Färm’s editorial in AiP arguing that Europe may need its own nuclear umbrella as America’s can no longer be trusted. Nuclear weapons are increasingly discussed not as an existential threat to humanity, but as...

Yurii Sheliazhenko*, Conscientious Objector to Military Service and Human Rights Defender, under Immediate Threat

JOINT PRESS RELEASE | 23 January 2026 The undersigned organizations express serious concern regarding the continued persecution of Ukrainian human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko, a conscientious objector to military service. He is currently under an alarming threat of being arrested and forcibly...