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Conscientious Objectors Day, 15 May: Supporting those who say ‘No to War’

“If the right to life is the first of all human rights Being the one on which all other rights depend The right to refuse to kill must be the second.”  Inscription on COs Memorial Stone, Wales’ National Garden of Peace #OTD ‘On this Day’, 15 May has been recognised […]

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JUSTICE LEAGUE: A Whitsuntide Anniversary #OTD 25 May 1920 of Wales’ biggest Peace Movement

#OTD 103 years ago, over Whitsun Weekend culminating 25 May 1920, WCIA’s predecessor the Welsh League of Nations Union held their first public meeting in Llandrindod Wells (image); and #OTD 101 years on from Whitsun 1922, the organisation formally became came into existence as an independent body from the British […]

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OTD, 27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day

On this day #OTD, 27th January 1945, Russian soldiers liberated the notorious Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, beginning the grisly discovery of one of the world’s greatest human rights atrocities: the Holocaust and mass extermination of Jewish peoples. The anniversary has been the focus for United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance […]

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#Peace100 Anniversaries, #OTD 10th January: League of Nations, Wales and UN

Over 2022, WCIA will be producing regular ‘Peace100’ features on significant Peace Heritage anniversaries – ‘Hidden Histories’ from the archives of the Temple of Peace and beyond. 10th January, On This Day (#OTD): The League of Nations came into being in Paris, 10 January 1920 The League of Nations, the […]

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