HRC43: Statement on Italy
Statement to the UN Human Rights Council 43rd Session (24 February – 20 March 2020) Item 6: Universal Periodic Review I speak on behalf of Women’s International League for Peace […]
Submission to the CEDAW Committee pre-session on Italy
Submission to the CEDAW Committee 8th (virtual) pre-sessional Working Group (1-5 March 2021). List of issues prior to reporting (LOIPR). Download the submission.
Joint submission for the UPR of Italy
WILPF made a joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Italy, with Fondazione Pangea onlus, Associazione Trama di Terre onlus, Filomena – La rete delle donne, and Unione Donne […]
Statements of Support and Solidarity from the 32nd International Triennial Congress
WILPF STATEMENT WILPF 32ndInternational Triennial Congress Accra, Ghana 22 August 2018 Statement of Support By 32nd Triennial Congress of WILPF on Issues Submitted by Sections/Groups/Members Statements of Support and Solidarity […]
Statement: CEDAW Committee 67th session, Review of Italy
At the 67th Session of the of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), WILPF International and WILPF Italy delivered the following oral statement during the Committee’s […]
Open Letter to the International Community: Call for Solidarity
Open letter from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina During the last few months we have been seeing images that might as well have been taken at the beginning of 90’s – […]
WILPF’s Recommendations For The Pre-Session Of The Universal Periodic Review Of Italy
In 2014 the Comitato Interministeriale per i Diritti Umani (CIDU) of the Italian Foreign Ministry organised three meetings on 17th April, 30th July and 10th September 2014 to present the […]
The Role of the Vatican in the United Nations
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom IEC held in lieu of the 27th Triennial Congress, July 27-August 3, 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland: The Vatican, called the “Holy See” is recognised as a Non-Member […]
Human Rights for Silvia Baraldini
The 26th Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, August 1-6, 1995 in Helsinki, Finland: The 26th International WILPF Congress urges the US Government to repatriate Silvia Baraldini, Italian citizen and political prisoner in the US, from prison in the US to a prison in Italy, in accordance with the Strasbourg Rights Convention, which provides for the repatriation of prisoners to their country of origin. The US and several European countries have accepted the Convention early on, and Italy ratified it in 1989. Actions: (a) To mobilize public awareness of the situation of Silvia Baraldini by undertaking a worldwide campaign for her repatriation to Italy; and (b) for WILPF section to write to US President Bill Clinton to take steps for the repatriation of Silvia Baraldini to Italy.