IPB Petition: Invest in Healthcare Instead of Militarization
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*We, the signatories, call on the world leaders meeting at the General
Assembly of the United Nations*, to dramatically reduce military spending
in favour of healthcare and all social and environmental needs
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**Signatures will be brought to the United Nations General Assembly on the
1st day of the next session opening on September 15th 2020*



*Health Care Stress*
Together with the International Peace Bureau, the world’s oldest peace
organization and Nobel Prize winner, we are witnessing the consequences of
irresponsible political decisions that have led to dramatic
under-investment in healthcare. All over the world, health systems are
reaching the limits of their strength and heroic front-line staff are under
massive pressure. The coronavirus emergency shows the weakened state our
societies find themselves in: a world driven by financialization,
shareholder value, and austerity has weakened our ability to defend the
common good and placed human life in danger on a global scale.

Employees fearful of job and income loss are tempted to go to work sick.
The elderly are vulnerable and need help. The virus hits the weakest
hardest. Privatization, austerity measures, and the neoliberal system have
brought local, regional and national health services to the brink of
collapse.
We can already draw lessons for the future –* healthcare is a human right
for young and old, for all people in all parts of the world. Healthcare
must never be slashed or subordinated in the pursuit of profit through
privatization.*

*Time for a global social contract*
The ILO reports on the labour market consequences with a potential loss of
25 million jobs, more than during the 2008 financial crisis. Working
poverty is expected to increase significantly, up to an additional 35
million individuals.

We support the efforts of the trade union movement globally and locally, in
their call for a new social contract. We support their call for economic
measures and resources to protect jobs, incomes, public services, and
welfare.

*Prioritize Disarmament*
*The world spends US$1.8 trillion on military expenditure every year and is
scheduled to spend 1 trillion dollars on new nuclear weapons in the next 20
years.*

*Militarization is the wrong path for the world to take; it fuels tensions
and raises the potential for war and conflict. It aggravates already
heightened nuclear tensions.*

World leaders must put disarmament and peace at the centre of policy making
and develop a new agenda for disarmament that includes banning nuclear
weapons. We reiterate our call for governments to sign up to the TPNW
treaty.

Disarmament is a major key to the great transformation of our economies, to
ensure that human beings and not profit are most valued; economies in which
ecological challenges will be solved and global social justice will be
pursued.

With disarmament, the implementation of the SDGs, a global social contract,
and a new global green peace deal, we can address challenges such as the
coronavirus pandemic.

*We are calling the world leaders, meeting at the United Nations General
Assembly in September 2020, to act for a culture of peace. A peaceful path
means that we need a global strategy, a global social contract, and global
cooperation to ensure planet-wide support for people. This will be the
human solidarity of the 21st century – for and with the people.*

Sign the petition and spread the message here.
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Do not forget to share it on your social media channels. Join us in this
petition, which is part of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending
2020
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