CEDAW Statement: Creating an International Gender and Peace Agenda: Transnational Companies, Weapons and VAW
For the 64th session of the CEDAW committee, France is going to be reviewed. WILPF issued a report on the violations by France of women’s human rights. We wish have raised three […]
Resolution: The Provision of Gender-Sensitive Support to Syrian Women Refugees
The International Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting June 2016, Recalls WILPF’s opposition to military intervention as a means to bring about regime change, our […]
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 […]
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 […]
WILPF Statement: Developing the Interpretation of the Covenants Due Diligence and Extraterritorial Obligations
Fifty years after the ground-breaking signature of the Covenants on Human Rights these continue to be as relevant and necessary for humankind as they were in 1966. We must recognise […]
HRC38: Statement on the UN Report on Extreme Poverty in the USA
22 June 2018 Statement by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom UN Human Rights Council 38th session (18 June to 6 July 2018) Item 3: Clustered Interactive Dialogue […]
WILPF Statement on Weapons, Gender-Based Violence, and Women Human Rights Defenders
WILPF has the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of 27 CSOs. We applaud the ambitious and complementary thematic priorities proposed by the Special Rapporteur in her first annual […]
Statement on OHCHR Report on Colombia – Equal Participation of Women in the Peace Process
WILPF welcomes the report from the OHCHR on the situation of human rights in Colombia and would like to call to the attention of the Council the importance of an […]
Joint Statement by WILPF and ABAAD on the Universal Periodic Review Outcomes of Lebanon
This statement has been prepared by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and its national partner organisation in Lebanon ABAAD. We recognise that Lebanon has been facing deep […]
Statement by WILPF on the Detention of Women in Regime-Controlled Facilities in Syria
Read the statement in Arabic here. The Women International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes the Commission of Inquiry’s report on the rampant human rights violations in Syria, and recognises the […]