Open Letter Regarding the Murder of Honduran Environmental and Human Rights Defender Berta Cáceres
Open Letter to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, regarding the murder of Honduran environmental and human rights defender […]
Joint Statement by WILPF and the Network of Eritrean Women on the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea
Background WILPF stands in solidarity with the Network of Eritrean women in this statement. Through our work, we campaign for the rights of Eritrean women wherever they may be, but […]
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 […]
HRC31: Panel Discussion on Climate Change and the Right to Health
United Nations Human Rights Council 31st Session The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) welcomes this panel discussion, and would like to share our views about how an […]
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 […]
“The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Human Rights, with an Emphasis on the Right to Development”
Statement of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom on the Annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming Sustainable Development and Disarmament Goal 16 of the SDGs on […]
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. […]
HRC30: Statement on the Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building to Improve Human Rights in Libya
Joint statement between the Lybian Women’s Platform for Peace and WILPF The situation in Libya reached an important stage, where terrorism is threatening to engulf the country one city at […]
Statement on the Report of the Human Rights Council on the Universal Periodical Review of the United States
RIGHTS OF UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS WILPF is highly concerned over the militarisation of the US-Mexico border and with the zero-tolerance US immigration laws that are restricting the rights of immigrants. Undocumented […]
HRC15: Oral Statement on Sudan
Oral Statement UN Human Rights Council 15th Session Item 4 Interactive Dialouge with Independent Experts for Sudan The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) wishes to raise the […]