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A man in a blue jacket and red hat sicks a magnetic sign on a bonnet of a vehicle

What is Unarmed Civilian Accompaniment?

“Are you the guy?” he said.“I’m the guy,” I answered. “Do you have the names?”“I have the names.” It was like a scene from a bad

Three boats at sea

The promise of the sea

Just over a week ago, the Israeli Occupation Forces intercepted and detained the crews of over twenty boats sailing to break the siege of Gaza.

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Stories held by the Aegean Islands

In the first hours of 2026, Haidar and Hussein were lost. They set off from Turkey on New Year’s Eve to reach Europe and a

People on a demonstration

The day before the ceasefire

The day before the ceasefire, the US was promising to wipe Iran off the map. “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump wrote, “never to

people stand with signs at a demonstration

Refusing to pay for war

Behind every budget are decisions about whose lives are protected – and whose are not. Through taxation, we are implicated in those decisions. But what

a woman speaks at a protest where people hold signs

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

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,

Tehran - The Fourth Day of War

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,

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