Japan’s responsibility for crimes against ‘Comfort Women’
During World War II, the Imperial Japanese military was involved in the abduction and trafficking of many thousands of women for their sexual exploitation in “comfort stations” where they were […]
Effective Remedies for Conflict Related Sexual Violence
Femmes Africa Solidarité, WILPF and World YWCA submit this joint-statement expressing concern that the provision of services and reparations for women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence remains inadequate. Access to […]
The Situation of Extreme Poverty in Timor-Leste
Franciscans International (FI), the Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis, a local civil society organisation also known as La’o Hamutuk , and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom […]
Statement in Memory of Sunila Abesekera
WILPF makes this statement in memory of Sunila Abesekera, a defender of human rights and a women’s rights activist. Abesekera reminded us on many occasions to protect and defend human […]
Support to the Recovery Process in Haiti: A Human Rights Approach
Thank you Chairperson, The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) welcomes this Special Session focused on the future reconstruction of Haiti. This terrible earthquake has once again shown […]
2nd Seven Special Rapporteurs Report on the DRC
Thank you, Chairperson. I speak on behalf of the section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Local conflict and 400 […]
Truly Address Israel’s Stranglehold on Palestine
Thank you Chairperson for giving us the floor. We thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights for her report. We are dismayed that on the whole nothing of any significance […]
‛You Get What You Pay For- Disarm for Human Rights’
Thank you, Mr President, The realization of human rights will depend upon a transformation of thinking on security; that is, a shift from a paradigm of security assured by military […]
Disarm to Ensure the Right to Food
Thank you, Chairperson, The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom welcomes the focus which the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has put in his report on the […]
HRC15: Oral Statement on UPR on Sweden
Oral Statement UN Human Rights Council session 15 Item 6, Consideration of UPR reports, Sweden 22nd of September 2010 Mr Chairperson, Multiple Treaty Bodies have recommended the Swedish government […]