The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest international feminist organisation active in the world today. WILPF’s mission is to end and prevent war; ensure that women are represented at all levels in the peace-building process; defend the human rights of women and men; and promote social, economic and political justice.
We are visionaries and activists dedicated to creating a world free from violence and armed conflict in which human rights are protected and women and men are equally empowered and involved in positions of leadership at the local, national and international levels.
It goes without saying that war and conflict affect both men and women’s human rights. However, there are particular gendered dimensions to violence that have a disproportionate and differing impact on women.
Though women have been, and are, active agents in peace and reconciliation efforts at all levels, women and gender analysis are regularly excluded from peace-making processes and decisions.
WILPF believes that the exclusion of women, women’s rights and gender remains a key impediment to the attainment of sustainable peace and human security, and must not be ignored!
WILPF UK is currently working on four campaigns:
Our work centres on creating dialogue with policy officials; commenting on current affairs and proposing policy solutions to current international and national human rights, peace, security, environment and gender equality issues; lobbying the UK government, the EU and the UN; taking part in relevant actions such as the recent Stop Trident demonstration in February in London; and building grassroots support for the goals of WILPF.
We run events, often in partnership with other organisations to help ensure as wide an audience as possible for our messages; publicise WILPF policy suggestions; and in general, push for human rights and peaceful security at every opportunity.
