IPB – International Peace Bureau

The World Social Forum serves as a global platform for civil society groups, bringing together NGOs, advocacy campaigns, and grassroots movements to build international solidarity and challenge traditional globalization. By uniting these diverse groups, the gathering acts as a clear expression of global activism working toward alternative, more equitable futures. However, thi...

This August, our Co-Presidents Joseph Gerson and Cora Fabros were in Japan to commemorate the 81st anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9.

Standing alongside Hibakusha and peace advocates, we are renewing our call for a nuclear-free world—through the abolition of nuclear weapons, the promotion of the Treaty on the Prohibitio...

Nagasaki, August 9, 2026 — 81 Years After the Atomic Bombing

Speech by Cora Fabros, IPB Co-President

Friends, ohayo guzaimas!

81 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on this city.

We remember. We grieve.

We carry the memory of those who died— and the voice...

Written by IPB Council Member and WBW Latin America Organizer Gabriel Aguirre – Caracas, August 5, 2026

Imagine returning home after a holiday and realizing you’ve lost everything: family, friends, acquaintances, your home, everything you once thought would be forever. This was the reality many Venezuelans faced after the double earthquake that struck the country on...

Translated using Deepl. Attached below is the original speech in German

Dear friends,

6 August 1945, 8.15 am, a sunny day in Hiroshima, already hot even in the morning; hundreds of thousands were on their way to work, to school, to university – tired and exhausted after all those years of war.

In the blue sky, an aeroplane – no danger, j...