Common Cause: Endorse our Statement & Join Our Movement

‘In Our Own Right,’ our new Joint Civil Society Statement on Disability Rights and Disarmament, was delivered at the United Nations in New York on October 17, 2025. Drafted by scholar-advocates from six organizations – in Canada, Germany, and the United States – the statement was endorsed by the 45 organizations and 20 individuals listed below. Our aim is to continue to significantly expand our coalition in breadth and depth, drawing support from both disarmament and disability rights communities in the belief that, as our statement says, “at a time of dangerous global divisions, disability rights can act as a bridge between issues, states, and regions.”

Join Our Movement

If you or your organization would like to join our diverse global movement, please sign up here: Endorsements Form

Endorsing Organizations

• Able South Carolina
• Action on Armed Violence (AOAV)
• Arab Human Security Network
• Association for Empowerment for Persons with Disability in Viet Nam
• Campagna Italiana Contro le Mine
• Campaign Against Arms Trade
• Campaign to Stop Killer Robots – Hungary
• Centro de Estudios Ecuménicos – Mexico
• Colombian Campaign Against Landmines (CCCM)
• Conflict and Environment Observatory
• Development and Ability Organization (DAO)
• DFG-VK – German Peace Society-United Conscientious Objectors
• Disability Rights International
• Facing Finance (German member of Stop Killer Robots)
• FEPAD – Women Committed to Consolidating Peace and Sanitation for Sustainable Development (Burundi)
• Inspiring Girls Mexico
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC)
• International Humanitarian Law and Youth Initiative (IHLYI)
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) – Canada
• International Peace Bureau (IPB)
• International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
• Handicap International/United Against Inhumanity
• Hunter Peace Group, Australia
• Kurdish Organizations Network Coalition for the International Criminal Court (KONCICC)
• Latin American Network of Associations of Survivors of Antipersonnel Mines, Explosive Remnants of War and other Persons with Disabilities (RED-LAT)
• Legacies of War
• Mines Action Canada
• National Association of Civilian Victims of War (Italy)
• Nonviolence International
• Norwegian Peace Association
• Peace Movement Aotearoa
• Aotearoa New Zealand Campaign on Military Spending
• Women, Peace and Security National Network, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Aotearoa New Zealand Network on Explosive Weapons
• Norwegian People’s Aid
• Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities
• Ofogh: Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls, Iran
• PAX
• Perú por el Disarme
• PROTECTION, France
• Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• SafeGround – Reducing Impacts of War (Australia)
• Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
• Soka Gakkai International
• SPADO (Sustainable Peace and Action Organization), Pakistan
• Stop Killer Robots
• Tangata Group
• United States International Council on Disabilities
• Vision GRAM-International
• West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs
• Women with Disabilities Development Foundation
• Women’s International Network for Peace – Germany

Individual Endorsements

• Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin, pacifist academic, University of Bradford, UK
• Joaquin David Rogriguez Álvarez, Autonomous University of Barcelona
• Habbouba Aoun, Landmine Resource Center, University of Balamand -Lebanon
• Edward Chaka, Executive Director, Peoples Federation for National Peace and Development (PEFENAP), Malawi
• Anne Delorme, Humanité & Inclusion Canada
• Alex Garcia, Gaucha Association of Parents and Friends of Deafblind People and People with Multiple Disabilities (AGAPASM), Brazil
• Professor Paul Harpur OAM, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Amal Haza’a, Yemen Paralympic Committee
• Bill Kidd, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
• Maualaivao Maima Koro, Pacific Research Fellow, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Branka Marijan, Project Ploughshares, Canada
• Kate McInnes, Principal, Arendt Chambers, Canada
• Dr. Alex Munyambabazi, Amputee Self-help Network Uganda (ASNU)
• Dr. Stacey Pizzino, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Professor Gerard Quinn, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Yerdaulet Rakhmatulla and Aigerim Seitenova, co-founders, Qazaq Nuclear Frontline Coalition (QNFC)
• Yerdaulet Rakhmatulla, JASA
• Maricarmen Sequera, Executive Director, TEDIC Paraguay
• Dr. Magdalena E. Stawkowski, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, author of Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan
• María Eugenia Villarreal, Human Security Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (SEHLAC)