The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women’s peace organization in the world. It is an international non-governmental organization with over 35 Sections (countries) around the world. WILPF International has offices in Geneva, Switzerland and New York City.
WILPF has had consultative status (category B) with the United Nations through the Economic and Social Council since 1948. We also have Special Consultative Relations with the Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome, the International Labor Organisation in Geneva, and the United Nations Children’s Fund in New York. WILPF is represented at UN headquarters in Geneva, New York and Paris.
Find out more about our International Organization at www.wilpf.org and follow WILPF on:
Global Programs
Disarmament
Total and universal disarmament is one of the founding goals of WILPF, and our Disarmament Programme promotes human security and stigmatises the very concept of ‘military security’.
See Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament programme of WILPF International
Women, Peace and Security
WILPF’s Women, Peace and Security Programme ensure that international peace and security efforts work for women.
See PeaceWomen, a space for peacemakers to engage, learn and be part of a global movement to advance a holistic Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
Human Rights
The Human Rights Programme supports local women human rights defenders’ engagement with international human rights bodies, and advocates for respect and protection of human rights in order to achieve peace.
WILPF Manifesto
On April 28, 2015, WILPF International commemorated WILPF’s founding 100 years earlier by publishing the WILPF Manifesto. The Manifesto celebrates our survival, our persistence and our undiminished commitment to the ideal that brought us into being — universal and enduring peace with justice and freedom. We seized that centenary moment to reaffirm the principles and purposes of our founders – as relevant today as ever they were, to set out our current concerns and tasks, and to foresee the challenges ahead in the century to come.
We are determined that WILPF shall grow and become more effective. We will engage, mobilize, and amplify the energies of women worldwide – to do away with militarism as mindset, militarization as process, and war as practice. It’s time to shake the foundations and topple the structures of power that foster these destructive manifestations: capitalism and its class system, patriarchy with its gender hierarchy, and nationalism and racism with their racist ranking of diverse peoples. We will continue to struggle to achieve full participation as women in all our communities, states and international organizations. We seek to liberate women’s power to stop war.
