About us

The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases  (or NO-Bases Network) took off at the 2004 World Social forum in India, and grew over the past 5 years to include hundreds of campaigners in dozens of countries on all continents.

What binds us all is the realisation that the ca. 1000 US and ca. 200 European military facilities all around the globe are 'bad for you'. Bases come with high crime rates, violation of womens rights, pollution, health hazards, displacements, loss of land an fishing grounds, cultural oppression, economic dependence on a foreign army, political intransparity and a general loss of sovereignty.

Next to that, we are driven by the realisation that without these bases, fleets, torture centres, spy-facilities, weapon storage facilities, training camps and testing grounds, most of the aggressive wars and interventions of the past decades would not have been possible. Bases are the infrastructure of a militarist foreign policy undermining international peace and security, globally.

In March 2007, the Network was launched officially as a result of its first international conference held in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, where later that year the government decided to kick the American military out.

The Network functions as a loose conglomerate of campaigns, support groups and both regional and topical working groups. The primary functions of the Network include:

• Sharing information
• Solidarity with the front line campaigns currently struggling to prevent new bases or close existing ones
• Joint strategising to abolish foreign military bases in general and to support local and regional struggles in their struggles for justice, reparations and codes of conducts in specific cases.

The NO-Bases Network is a politically independent non-profit charity under Dutch Law.