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Fragile peace

Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – the PKK – announced it would disband, bringing to a close a decades-long armed struggle against the

Welcome to Checkpoint 160

In August, CPT Reservist Maggie Hindley returned to Al Khalil/Hebron after a few years. She reunited with those she’d met before, and reflects on the changes in their daily lives after two years of war in Gaza.

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A cold peace: a ceasefire without demobilization

Seven months on from the PKK’s unilateral ceasefire, bombardments and attacks by the Turkish Armed Forces in Iraqi Kurdistan seem to have ceased. But the increasing military presence by both actors makes the situation appear fragile.

The last two years

This week marks two years since 7 October 2023, two years of apocalyptic devastation, during which the people of Gaza have endured unimaginable suffering. Over

A garden and a wall

Beyond imagination

In the occupied West Bank, checkpoints enforce restricted movement on Palestinian families. One family describes the daily struggles of navigating them.

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Release Sherwan Sherwani and end judicial harassment

We, the undersigned press freedom and human rights organizations, call on the Kurdistan Regional Government to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Sherwan Sherwani, who remains

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Messengers of hope

This week in Agua Prieta, Sonora, MX, in Douglas, AZ, US, and worldwide, migrants and migrant-solidarity communities have joined together to remember “Migrants, missionaries of

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Prayer for Crete

Those who now reach the shores of Crete in small and fragile boats come because Europe offers no safe or legal way to seek asylum,

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The nightmare Europe needs

“When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.” The

Crowd gather under Toronto's skyline with Palestine flag raised

Charges dropped against CPT Canada Coordinator

This week, Community Peacemaker Teams celebrates the fact that charges have been dropped against our Canada Coordinator, Rachelle Friesen. Last September, Friesen was arrested for

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More than 200 organisations: inhumane deportation rules should be rejected

On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumatising, and rights-violating measures premised on an imperative of increasing deportation rates. Instead of focusing on protection, housing, healthcare and education, the Regulation is premised on punitive policies, detention centres, deportation and enforcement.  

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The God of the poor 

After almost a year of continuous work, I went to Bogotá to visit my family. While I was on the Transmilenio, an elderly man who

A person wrapped in a burial shroud

Occupation, death, and other privileges 

Tameem Tamimi, a member of CPT Palestine, reflects on life, death, grief and survival in the context of the Israeli Occupation and the genocide in Gaza.

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Postcards from Naxos

Every August, the Greek islands come to life. Greeks travel there to escape the intense heat of the cities, looking to cool off in the

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The Human Rights Museum built on stolen land

From August 10-18 CPT-Turtle Island Solidarity Network hosted a delegation called Unmasking and Dismantling Settler Colonialism. Participants spent time learning in Winnipeg, Kenora, and Grassy Narrows. This is one delegate’s reflection. 

A fence bearing an Israeli flag blocking the entrance of a cemetery

Even our dead are imprisoned

In most parts of the world, visiting a grave is a simple, deeply human act. People walk to the cemetery, bring flowers, sit by the

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