Statement on Scope: What Human Rights Should Be Enforced under the Instrument with Respect to Activities of TNCs and Other Business Enterprises?
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom joins the statement of the Treaty Alliance and would like to further develop some points. DUE ATTENTION TO GENDER As announced earlier […]
Oral Statement on the Report of the Working Group on the Issue of Discrimination against Women
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes the report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, examining discrimination against […]
The Lack of Regulation of Firearms Possession and Its Impact on Women’s Human Rights
Briefing paper The differentiated impact of firearms on women is rarely taken into account when addressing the issue firearms. Yet, we know that firearms possession and use are clearly […]
Role of Guns in Domestic Violence
Briefing paper WILPF supports the joint key priorities prepared by the Sexual Rights Initiative and this documents aims at expanding the supporting arguments for the impact of firearms on […]
Resolution on Seeking Asylum Is a Human Right
The 31st Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting 22-24 April 2015 in The Hague, the Netherlands: Alarmed by the tragic deaths of thousands of […]
WILPF Statement to the Conference on Disarmament on International Women’s Day 2015
After covering the work of the Conference on Disarmament (CD) for decades, WILPF finally decided that after 17 years of inaction, it is time to focus our time and energy on other […]
Statement on the Right to Peace
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes the work of the intergovernmental working group in charge of drafting a Declaration on the Right to Peace. However, WILPF regrets […]
Statement on Armed Drones and International Law
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is extremely concerned with the use of armed drones both for extrajudicial killings outside of armed conflict and to conduct attacks […]
Statement on Military Expenditures
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) welcomes the Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, particularly the multiple references to military […]
Joint CSO Statement on the Declaration on the Right to Peace
As members of civil society we have the duty to bring into this room the voice of the people of the world who are victims of armed conflict, direct, structural […]