Open Letter to UN Secretary General to Formally End the Korean War
Over 100 women from 38 countries have signed onto the letter, including WILPF leaders and members, and including women from nations that participated in the Korean War. Thirty-seven major South Korean women’s […]
Resolution: Condemning the Sexual Assault and Murder of Okinawan Woman by Former US Marine and Calling for Withdrawal of US military from Okinawa, Japan
The International Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting June 2016, Noting that on 19 May 2016, the body of a 20-year old Okinawan woman […]
Recognising Nuclear Tests in Polynesia as Crimes Against Humanity
The 31st Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting 22–24 April 2015 in The Hague, the Netherlands: Recalls previous resolutions concerning the disastrous consequences from […]
Resolution on the Constitution of Nepal
The 31st Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting 22-24 April 2015 in The Hague, the Netherlands: Notes that Nepal has been in a state […]
Statement by WILPF India on CEDAW Comittee’s Review of India – 58th Session
Women’s Participation and UNSCR 1325 Structural and institutional inequality persisting in India is the major cause of the various forms of discrimination against women, which manifests itself in all public […]
Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’s Report to the Human Rights Council on India
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes Rashida Manjoo’s visit to India and her close collaboration with civil society. Despite the existence of a solid legislative framework to […]
Resolution against Drones
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) International Board, as a particular response to the initiative of the WILPF Sections in Pakistan, the United States, and the United […]
Responsibility of Japan for military sexual slavery
The following is a joint statement by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM), delivered on the occasion […]
Japan’s responsibility for crimes against ‘Comfort Women’
During World War II, the Imperial Japanese military was involved in the abduction and trafficking of many thousands of women for their sexual exploitation in “comfort stations” where they were […]
Armed Forces Special Powers Act in North East India
The Government of India failed to advance human rights and justice when it did not accept the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council to repeal the Armed Forces Special […]