Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is a project to expose the perils of confrontation in the nuclear age and explore pathways to a safer, just and sustainable future.
In Solidarity with Francesca Albanese
SHAPE
Public Statement 26 July 2025
Silencing the Mandate: US Sanctions on Francesca Albanese A Symbol of International Law’s Twilight
Imagine a scene worthy of Orwell’s worst nightmare: a United Nations envoy, appointed to report on human rights violations, excellently performing in her job despite formidable difficulties, and met with sanctions by one of the world’s most powerful nations. But this isn’t satire; it’s July 2025.
SHAPE – the global human rights and global reform organization – stands in full solidarity with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, whose crime was to fulfil her mandate independently and fearlessly in the face of baseless opposition from transgressing governments, notably the United States and Israel. Read more
In the name of humanity, the barbarism in Gaza must stop
SHAPE Media Release 25 May 2025
Over the last 18 months, the world has witnessed undiluted militarised cruelty targeting the entire population and the supportive natural habitat of Gaza – with not so much as an ounce of mercy or compassion, let alone justice, or sensitivity to issues of ecological viability.
No one has been spared in this onslaught: not civilians, not children, women or the elderly, not humanitarian workers or UN personnel overseeing the distribution of aid, not homes, schools, places of worship, or hospitals. Read more
CROWDFUNDING APPEAL
Restore Hope - SHAPE
To get SHAPE’s ambitious international program under way funds are urgently needed. We have to pay for the communication tools (both software and hardware), access to a range of services, venue and equipment hire, at least part-time employment of people with relevant skills, and, where necessary, some limited forms of advertising. We have in mind, in due course, applying to philanthropic bodies for one or two grants., But such applications take time and there is no guarantee of early success. In the meantime, we have to rely on the goodwill of our supporters. Please contribute as generously as you can to this appeal, and encourage others to do likewise.
THE CALL
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future
Humanity has reached a tipping point. It is time for governments, international institutions and people everywhere to take stock and act with renewed urgency. The Ukraine conflict is inflicting death, injury, displacement and destruction, exacerbating a global food crisis, driving Europe into recession, and creating shock waves across the world economy. The Taiwan conflict is threatening to escalate into outright war that would devastate Taiwan and turn East Asia into a powder keg. More troubling still is the toxic relationship between the United States on the one hand and China and Russia on the other. Here lies the key to both conflicts.
What we are seeing is the culmination of decades of gross mismanagement of global security. The United States has been unwilling to accept, let alone adapt to, the rise of China and the re-emergence of Russia. It remains unwilling to break with outdated notions of global dominance – a legacy of the Cold War and the triumphalism that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. A global power shift is taking place. The West-centric world, in which first Europe and then the United States held sway, is giving way to a multi-centric, multi-civilisational world in which other centres of power and influence are demanding to be heard.
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