Updated 6 August, 2025
The declaration was drafted by the Nordic Peace Alliance’s working group on Helsinki+50 in June-July this year with input from organizations and people around the world, including World Beyond War and International Peace Bureau.
You can download the text of the declaration as a PDF file.
You can also read the text and see the list of signatures by 28 July on a separate page here.
If you want to sign, then send a mail to: info@helsinkiplus50.org Please note that we want organizational as well as individual signatures. We will continue to collect signatures until the turn of the year 2025-2026, when Switzerland takes over. the chairmanship of OSCE.
Best regards,
Tord Björk and Palle Bendsen
for Nordic Peace Alliance’s working group on Helsinki+50
Background information about the text:
The first draft was written in May-June.
On June 17 we conducted three webinars, one for Asia & Pacific, one for Europe and Africa and one for Latin & North America with a large number of speeches from 18 countries and as many organizations. This gave depth to the process. The webinars were taped and can be found here: https://helsinkiplus50.org/the-online-process/
The draft was then shared with a larger circle of organizations and individuals who made their valuable contributions to the content. Then we had a final editing process and the result is what we present here.
It was all along our goal to have the declaration finished and signed by a large number of organizations and individuals before the end of July, in time to submit it to the embassies of the 57 OSCE member states in Helsinki on 30 July 2025, just as the celebration of the Helsinki Final Act will begin in Helsinki, Finland.
On 30 July, the declaration and signatures from some 60 organisations were handed over to embassies of the 57 states that have signed the Helsinki Final Act.
CONTACT: info@helsinkiplus50.org
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