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![Ciutat drets humans This year’s autumn edition will take place from 4th to 15th October.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/drets_humans.png?itok=TpX4Izt0&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The project “Cities defending Human Rights” will start its second autumn edition in October with 9 defenders from several countries.
Peace is an inalienable aspiration that must be addressed from a broad political and social approach and looking at the causes that shape inequality and injustice.
![Fundipau Jordi Armadans, the director of the Catalan organization Fundipau.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/armadans_0.jpg?itok=G0-i6imn&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
Jordi Armadans, the director of the Catalan organization Fundipau, highlights the importance of global governance and disarmament and demilitarization for peacebuilding.
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The Serbian-Croatian border is a hotspot for migration movements today. This journalist works there as a volunteers, helping people in search of a safe life.
![David Bondia is the president of the Institute of Human Rights of Catalonia](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/david_bondia_institut_drets_humans_catalunya.jpg?itok=4opTdrW1)
The president of the Institute of Human Rights of Catalonia says that achieving peace, one of the Sustainable Development Objectives of 2030, implies collective responsibility.
We hope that, once the seminar is over, all participants will be able to use new frameworks of skills and prepare new volunteering activities and programmes to promote peace and human rights, to fight against discrimination and build non-violent narratives that we see in society.
![Vilanova i la Geltrú will host the seminar 'Volunteering for peace'.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/vilanova_i_la_geltru.png?itok=BqnHkeTw)
The seminar “Volunteering for peace” will gather volunteering programme officers from 15 non-profit organizations from around Europe in Vilanova i la Geltrú from 1 to 7 April.
![Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize 2018](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/1._nobel_de_la_pau_2018.jpg?itok=etZUrmf6)
The Norwegian Committee has awarded the award to the Congolese gynecologist and the activist 'Yazidí' for its fight against sexual violence.
It is evident that war or violence is not a fatality or an external fact; it is the result of human actions. For this very reason, peace depends on personal and collective behaviour, which is our responsibility, the result of our freedom.
![Antoni Soler is currently the president of FundiPau](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/1._antoni_soler_fundipau.jpg?itok=2ZC0NOl0)
Interview with the president of FundiPau to discuss the concept of world peace and how to resolve non-violent conflicts.
![A mother and her son looking for a better future. Photo: CAFOD Photo Library, Flickr](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/libia.jpg?itok=yngeoRKL)
The international human rights organisation denounces European governments as supportive of exploitation and smuggling of refugees in Libya.
![Doctors Without Borders staff distribute take-home kits for Ebola survivors. Photo: Morgana Wingard, Flickr](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/doctors.jpg?itok=KgZx_tfH)
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