Working for Peace in the Middle East

Join CND and guest speakers to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and how we can best campaign for peace in the region. Will the Middle East ever be nuclear-free? And what is the UK’s role in the region?

1pm – 2:10pm: Voices from the Middle East: can the region be nuclear-free?

• Chair: Dave Webb, CND council member
• Sharon Dolev, Middle East Treaty Organisation (Israel)
• Emad Kiyaei, Middle East Treaty Organisation (Iran)

(Ten-minute break)

2:20pm – 3:30pm: Under scrutiny: the UK in the Middle East

• Chair: Tom Unterrainer, CND Chair
• Andrew Feinstein, Director of Shadow World Investigations
• Kate Hudson, CND General Secretary

(Ten-minute break)

3:40pm – 4:10pm: Campaigning for peace in the Middle East – what next?

• Chair: Jill Evans, CND Cymru Chair
• Lindsey German, Stop the War convenor
• Sara Medi Jones, CND Campaigns Director

For more information, contact information@cnduk.org.

Article 26: Right to Education

A lack of education, especially of girls, has been demonstrated to have an enormous impact on society at large, on health, and on the economic development of countries, not least because deprivation of the right to education often spans generations, as it perpetuates entrenched cycles of poverty. Education is perhaps the most powerful tool available to pull marginalized children and adults out of poverty and exclusion, making it possible for them to play an active role in the processes and decisions that affect them.

Article 24: Right to Rest & Leisure

Linked to reasonable working hours, leisure time and paid vacations is the right of each person to self-development and education. This provision is one of many places where the UDHR aims to ensure the full development of people’s personality.