{"id":35980,"date":"2024-11-01T01:14:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=35980"},"modified":"2024-11-01T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T07:02:48","slug":"english-bulletin-november-1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=35980","title":{"rendered":"English bulletin November 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

. PRIZE WINNERS CALL FOR PEACE .
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\nWe begin with this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace<\/a>. As veteran peace activist Joseph Gerson observes, “the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo is long overdue and could not come at a more important time. . . the U.S. has used its nuclear arsenal in the same way that an armed robber uses his gun when pointed at his victim\u2019s head. Whether or not the trigger is pulled, the gun has been used. Tragically, this is playbook with which the Russian government has been working from with its Ukraine-war nuclear threats.”<\/p>\n

\nThe leader of Nihon Hidankyo, Mimaki, echoed these concerns: “It has been said that because of nuclear weapons, the world maintains peace. But nuclear weapons can be used by terrorists. For example, if Russia uses them against Ukraine,\u00a0Israel\u00a0against\u00a0Gaza, it won\u2019t end there. Politicians should know these things.\u201d Mimaki added, \u201cI am not sure I will be alive next year. Please abolish nuclear weapons while we are alive. That is the wish of 114,000 hibakusha.\u201d Nihon Hidankyo represents he hibakusha who are the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

\nMimaki did not stop there with his remarks<\/a>. He addressed the genocide of Israel against the Palestinians. “\u201cIn Gaza, bleeding children are being held [by their parents]. It\u2019s like in Japan 80 years ago.\u201d He said he had believed \u201cthe people working so hard in Gaza\u201d would be awarded the Peace Prize, referring to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for\u00a0Palestine\u00a0Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which was\u00a0also nominated for the Nobel prize.<\/p>\n

\nThe winners of two other prizes this month addressed the Israeli genocide and called for peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nHan Kang<\/a>, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, declined to hold a press conference to celebrate the prize that she was awarded last month. She cited the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict. \u2018With the war intensifying and people being carried out dead every day, how can we have a celebration or a press conference?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\nAnd Arundhati Roy<\/a>, in accepting the prestigious Pinter Prize awarded by English PEN for literature, dedicated her remarks to the\u201ctelevised\u00a0genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of a colonial occupation and an Apartheid state\u201d<\/p>\n

\n“Describing the fatalities of over 42000 lives including women and children, Roy stated the US and Europe have prepared the ground for another situation to assuage their collective guilt for their early years of indifference towards one genocide\u2014the Nazi extermination of millions of European Jews.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cHostilities could end right this minute. Israeli hostages could be freed, and Palestinian prisoners could be released. The negotiations with Hamas and the other Palestinian stakeholders that must inevitably follow the war could instead take place now and prevent the suffering of millions of people. . . <\/p>\n

\n“The war that has now begun will be terrible. But it will eventually dismantle Israeli Apartheid. The whole world will be far safer for everyone \u2013 including for Jewish people \u2013 and far more just. It will be like pulling an arrow from our wounded heart,\u201d the award winning author said, underscoring that the war could stop today if the US government withdrew its support of Israel.<\/p>\n

\nThe PEN Prize awardee concluded her speech expressing her conviction that\u00a0From the river to the sea Palestine will be Free<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY
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\nNihon Hidankyo\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment
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HUMAN RIGHTS
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\n\u2018Keep Your Eye On Calendar, Palestine Will Be Free\u2019: Arundhati Roy\u2019s PEN Pinter Prize Speech
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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\n16th BRICS Summit adopts Kazan Declaration
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WOMEN\u2019S EQUALITY
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\nUN Women Leaders Network to convene a diverse group of women leaders worldwide to advance women\u2019s rights and leadership
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TOLERANCE & SOLIDARITY
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\nFrom Paris to Caracas, thousands march in support of Gaza around the world, one year after October 7
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE
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\nMexico: Libraries, key to building a peace-building citizenship
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DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION
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\nColombia: The functions of the Congressional Peace Commission are strengthened
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
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\nHan Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate Nobel prize while people die in wars
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. PRIZE WINNERS CALL FOR PEACE . We begin with this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace. As veteran peace activist Joseph Gerson observes, “the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo is long overdue and could not come at a more important time. . . the U.S. has used its nuclear arsenal in the same … Continue reading English bulletin November 1, 2024<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-35980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-disarmament","tag-english-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}