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 […]
HRC35: Statement on Human Rights Concerns Must Come Ahead of Profit in the Arms Trade
Statement made at the UN Human Rights Council 35th session (6 to 23 June 2017) during General Debate under items 2 and 3[1] WILPF has been consistently drawing attention to human rights […]
HRC34: Statement on the Effects of Intervention by the IMF on Women in Ukraine
Statement made at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council (27 February to 24 March 2017) under Item 10: Technical assistance and capacity-building, Interactive dialogue on the situation […]
Statement to the Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty General Debate
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes the opportunity to address the Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty. We participated in the negotiation of […]
Resolution: Supporting the Development of an International Treaty to Ensure Accountability for Human Rights Violations Resulting from Actions by Corporations
Read the Spanish version below The International Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting June 2016, Denouncing the militarisation imposed by large corporations, which sometimes use […]
HRC31: Statement on the Elaboration of an International Binding Instrument on Transnational Companies and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights
Declaración oral ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos sobre la elaboración de un instrumento vinculante en materia de empresas y derechos humanos 31ª sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de […]
Developing the Interpretation of the Covenants Due Diligence and Extraterritorial Obligations
High-Level Panel on 50th Anniversary of Human Rights Covenants Fifty years after the ground-breaking signature of the Covenants on Human Rights these continue to be as relevant and necessary for […]
Statement on Contemporary forms of Slavery in Supply Chains
WILPF welcomes this report by the SR on contemporary forms of slavery and its focus on contemporary forms of slavery in supply chains. Regardless of some international normative efforts to […]
Congress Resolution on Lebanon
The 29th Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting July 21-27, 2007 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Reaffirms all past WILPF resolutions on the Middle East, […]
Congress Resolution on Cuba
Whereas the United States of America is maintaining a military presence within the sovereign territory of the Republic of Cuba; and Whereas the United States of America has conducted military […]