HRC43: Statement on Egypt
Statement to the UN Human Rights Council 43rd Session (24 February – 20 March 2020) Item 6: Universal Periodic Review Violence against women and girls WILPF welcomes Egypt’s acceptance of […]
Statement on the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt
I am Sarah Boukhary, Interim Middle East and North Africa Co-Director at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the oldest international women’s peace organization in the world, founded […]
Joint submission to the UPR Working Group of Egypt
WILPF made a joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt, with the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) and ElNadim Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims […]
Open Letter to UN Secretary General from WILPF and MENA Women Civil Society Organisations
لتحميل نص الرسالة المفتوحة باللغة العربية، الرجاء الضغط على الرابط في أسفل الصفحة Open letter to Mr António Guterres, United Nations Secretary–General Letter from a group of Women Civil Society […]
HRC34: Statement on Multidimensional Insecurity and Its Impacts on Libyan Women
إضغط هنا لقراءة البيان الخطي باللغة العربية Written Statement submitted to the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council (27 February to 24 March) under Item 10: Technical assistance […]
Statement to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60)
We, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), call for feminist foreign and domestic policy that ensures local action on demilitarization and women’s human rights for transformative change. […]
WILPF’s position on the Violence in Egypt
Since its inception in 1915 WILPF has condemned violence as a means of dispute resolution, whether internal to a State or internationally. It brings neither legitimacy to those governments who […]
WILPF Resolution On Women In The Arab Spring
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), meeting at the Quadrennial Congress in San José, Costa Rica in August 2011, Recognizing that women have been playing a leading […]