The gathering will aim to strengthen global action for Palestinian liberation. Leading international figures, movements, trade unions, parliamentarians, and cultural voices will plan coordinated action to end complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people and to uphold international law. The gathering marks one year since the formation of The Hague Group, a bloc of states including Colombia, South Africa, and Malaysia committed to advancing concrete measures to end impunity for Israel’s crimes – from halting arms transfers to pursuing accountability for war crimes. The congress will focus on building the organised people power needed to enforce states’ legal obligations: closing ports to weapons, stopping shipments, ending corporate and institutional complicity, and advancing accountability across courts, contracts, campuses, and communities. “The People’s Congress is an important space for civil society to collectively design its defence of international law and human dignity,” said Mtata. “Churches and people of faith have an obligation to stand in solidarity with the suffering and resist impunity. Our presence here is part of a broader commitment to justice, accountability, and hopefully, to a just and peaceful coexistence of Palestinians and Israelis.” | 
On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, churches and communities across the world deepened their calls for...
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