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www.cpti.ws
CPTI is a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. CPTI works through international movements and through international institutions such as the United Nations and the European Union. CPTI is not an umbrella organisation of all War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns but complements the work of the many national and regional campaigns. |
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www.peacetaxseven.com
Find out more about the seven British conscientious objectors, the Peace Tax Seven, who are driven to take the government to court in order not to be complicit in killing recognised. |
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www.eurosvoorvrede.nl
Euros for Peace. Website of the Dutch war tax resistance movement. |
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www.surf.to/VRAK
Belgian peace tax and war tax resistance campaign. |
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www.consciencecanada.ca
Canadian peace tax and war tax resistance campaign. |
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www.cam.org/~nipp
Centre de ressources sur la non-violence. |
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www.netzwerk-friedenssteuer.de
German peace tax and war tax resistance campaign. |
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www.albakor.hu/beker
Alba Circle - Non-Violent Peace Movement, Hungary has been working for 10 years for the dissemination of the culture of nonviolence, providing information and legal aid for conscientious objectors, organizing demonstrations against wars and CO repression, and campaigning against Hungary joining NATO. |
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www.aleph.pangea.org...
Spanish peace tax and war tax resistance campaign email list. |
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www.nisbco.org
Since the draft still theoretically exists in the US, this organisation also makes provisions for conscientious objectors in the event of a draft, and conducts research into GI rights. |
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www.warresisters.org
Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. |
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www.peacetaxfund.org
A national non-profit organisation located in Washington, D.C. which lobbies for US federal legislation. The Peace Tax Foundation, its companion organization, educates the public about alternative tax payment programmes that are based on moral, religious, and ethical opposition to participation in war. |
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www.nwtrcc.org
NWTRCC is a coalition of groups from across the US, formed in 1982 to provide information and support to people involved in or considering some form of war tax resistance. |
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www.peacetaxpayer.org
Contains interesting info on how to avoid paying for war in the US, and explains the peace Taxpayer Trust Fund. |
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www.amnesty.org.uk
AI UK is the UK section of the international human rights membership organisation. |
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www.arcuk.org
ARC call for the UN to progressively limit the amount that states can spend on arms. |
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www.basicint.org
BASIC is an independent research organisation that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defence, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate. |
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www.caat.org.ukCampaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries. |
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www.caab.org.uk
Does what it says on the tin. |
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www.cacc.org.uk
CACC track the erosion of civil liberties and the human rights abuses that go with the ‘War on Terror’. |
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www.cnduk.org
CND campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future generations. |
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www.c-r.org
Conciliation Resources (CR) serves as an international resource for local organisations pursuing peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives. |
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www.international-alert.orgInternational Alert (IA) is an independent, international non-governmental organisation that works at local, national, regional and global levels to generate conditions and processes conducive to the cessation of war and the generation of sustainable peace. |
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www.j-n-v.org
Justice Not Vengeance (JNV) is an anti-war group which has developed out of ARROW (Active Resistance to the Roots of War). JNV opposes the US-UK 'war on terrorism', and campaigns for a peaceful resolution of international conflicts, based on justice and equality. JNV has adapted the core principles developed by ARROW. |
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www.landmineaction.org
Landmine Action works to save lives and livelihoods through the elimination of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. |
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www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Liberty is one of the UK's leading human rights and civil liberties organisations. It was founded as the National Council for Civil Liberties in 1934 and has fought to secure equal rights for everyone for 70 years. |
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www.medact.org
Medact is a health professionals’ organisation challenging barriers to health that highlights the health impacts of violent conflict, poverty and environmental degradation, and with others act to eradicate them. |
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www.networkforpeace.org.uk
Network for Peace was set up to continue the work of the National Peace Council, one of the oldest peace organisations in the UK.NfP is an organisation-based network, most members are groups who are working for peace, disarmament, or similar. NfP act as a contact point for queries about peace organisations, actions, vigils, and demonstrations, especially in times of crisis or emergency. |
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www.owos.info
OWOS run petitions against the war, focussing on the reasons the public were given for the invasion of Iraq. |
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www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Oxford Research Group (ORG) undertakes and disseminates research on key security issues to inform dialogue with decision makers and public debate. Current work focuses on three broad areas: nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation; UK defence and foreign policy; and global security in the changing international environment. |
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www.paxchristi.net
Pax Christi International is a non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the fields of human rights, security and disarmament, economic justice and ecology. The website does not address war tax resistance specifically but provides a wide range of background information on related issues. |
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www.peacedirect.org
Peace Direct is an initiative to fund the resolution of conflict and the prevention of war. In any conflict there are people who choose the more difficult route of active, nonviolent peace making. Peace Direct supports them and raises the profile of conflict resolution with governments. |
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www.ppu.org.uk
PPU is a secular organisation based on the belief that war and violent conflict are neither necessary nor inevitable. The website is extremely well designed and user-friendly. It provides a broad range of information on peace issues including violence and the media, children and war, and the arms trade to name but a few. There are also teaching and learning resources available, interactive maps and detailed statistics on conflict around the globe. The section on conscription and objection is particularly worth looking at and the website as a whole is highly recommended. |
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www.peacerights.org
Peacerights is an NGO established to promote peaceful conflict resolution, challenge threats to peace and to develop educational and research initiatives for those concerned with peace and justice in the world. |
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www.peaceworkers.org.uk
Peaceworkers UK works for the alleviation of human suffering caused by violent conflict through the promotion and encouragement of civilian strategies for the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. |
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www.quaker.org.uk
QPSW represents the Religious Society of Friends in Britain on issues of peace and justice. |
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www.respond.org
Since 1991 RTC has been providing advice, cross-cultural training and longer-term support to people who are working for peace, development, rights and humanitarian assistance in societies which are affected or threatened by violent conflict. |
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www.saferworld.org.uk
Saferworld is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments and civil society internationally to research, promote and implement new strategies to increase human security and prevent armed violence. |
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www.nonviolence-scotland.org.uk
The Centre exists to challenge a violent world with nonviolent alternatives. We know that using violence doesn’t work. It does not solve conflict. It leads to ‘no-win’ situations. People get hurt and the conflict remains. But it can be very hard to think of other ways to act. |
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www.stopwar.org.uk
STWC continues to organise action against the war in Iraq and its perpetrators. |
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www.una-uk.org
UNA-UK is an independent membership-based non-governmental organisation that undertakes research, advocacy, campaigning and education in support of principles and work of the United Nations. |
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www.vertic.org
VERTIC work to increase confidence in international treaties by monitoring peace agreements, elections, and human rights conditions. |
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www.voicesuk.org
Voices in the Wilderness has been campaigning - both in the UK and in the US - against US/UK policy towards Iraq since the mid-nineties. First, against the economic sanctions and US/UK military strikes on Iraq and, more recently, against the invasion of Iraq. |
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www.wri-irg.org
War Resisters' International exists to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war, and to support and connect people around the world who refuse to take part in war or the preparation of war. On this basis, WRI works for a world without war. |
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