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Filmmaking and resilience
“Everyone should see this film.” “It’s an emotional story about migrant families and what they have gone through.” “It’s the most impactful documentary I have
The only choices left
Here’s what we’ve seen this week: Israeli parliamentarians celebrated as they passed a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians. They popped the champagne, and wore lapel pins
One month of Iran-linked attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, 14 people have been killed and 93 have been injured in Iraqi Kurdistan.
A bridge with two ends
Sami Rasouli, founder of Muslim Peacemaker Teams and long time friend of CPT, reflects on a life of peacemaking between Najaf and the Twin Cities, on the legacy of the US occupation of Iraq, and the principles we must hold on to in wartime.
How long will we let fear rule our hearts?
We have built a society like a fortress, where the “other” is no longer a brother or a sister. We have traded our humanity for
New report documents systemic fair-trial concerns in “smuggling” trials in Greece
A new Annual Trial-Monitoring Report by the Border Violence Monitoring Network and Community Peacemaker Teams documents serious and recurring fair-trial concerns in the prosecution of
“Border management”: death and criminalisation
Last month started with yet another shipwreck in the Aegean sea. The Hellenic Coast Guard caused it, this time in Chios. Once again we saw the results of the criminalisation of migration and the border violence that accompanies it.
118 Days, Twenty Years Later
“Our hearts are filled with joy today…” These were the opening words of CPT’s statement on March 23, twenty years ago, when Harmeet Singh Sooden,
The view from Rûste
Show me hope when all I can see is death.Millions of lives quenched and forever changed.Show me hope when all I can see are the
Starting the story with “secondly”
The US and Israeli war on Iran is out of control. Trump has no plan. To paraphrase his own verdict on the 12-day war of
Ten years of the EU-Turkey deal: a decade of systemic harm
Ten years after the EU-Turkey statement of 18 March 2016, we mark a decade defined by the sustained degradation and dehumanisation of people on the move.
Attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continue as civilian harm increases
307 strikes by the IRGC and affiliated groups since 28 February leave 8 people killed and 51 injured.
Al-Khalil: the untold layers of Hebron
To understand Palestine, you must understand Hebron
Women’s work is sacred work
On 8 March, many of us celebrated International Women’s Day. When I came home from church, my roommate asked me whether my church had marked
Making sense of the contradictions
As the war with Iran continues and the death toll rises, many of us are trying to make sense of the contradictions it has exposed,
Escalating attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Between 28 February, when the US and Israel launched opening strikes on Iran, and 8 March, CPT Iraqi Kurdistan documented 196 strikes in the region by Iran and its affiliated groups.
Life during wartime in the West Bank: an update from the US-Israel war with Iran
Two weeks into the US-Israel war with Iran, CPT Palestine gives an update on how it has impacted conditions in the West Bank.
Prayer for Colombia in decisive times
This year Colombia is going through a decisive moment. In the coming months, the country will elect Congress, Community Action Boards, and the Presidency. These
The Americas at a crossroads: against the militarization of the hemisphere
Amid rising tensions in the Americas, CPT Colombia reflects on US interventionism and the growing threat of imperialism in Latin America.
Ramadan is a space for spiritual gathering in the Old City of Al-Khalil
Ramadan transforms Hebron’s Old City into a space of prayer, commerce and quiet resilience, where faith endures despite restrictions.
Bombs don’t bring liberation
On Saturday morning, Israel and the United States began a large-scale bombing campaign against Iran. Within days the region has been pulled into a widening
M.H. must be acquitted
In April 2025, a survivor was charged with causing the shipwreck that killed his wife and child. On Thursday his case will be heard in a Lesvos courtroom.
The architecture of crimmigration and the Chios tragedy
A recent shipwreck off the coast of Chios island exposes the way deadly border policies are shaped by fear, militarization, and the convergence of criminal and migration law.
CPT condemns the US-Israel war on Iran
Community Peacemaker Teams condemns the unprovoked United States and Israeli war on Iran. On Saturday morning, the two governments launched Operation Epic Fury, attacking Tehran