Minutes and Report from 2013 International Board Meeting

To meet your expectations, we divided the minutes into 1) a report and 2) minutes. The report is the longer version of the meeting, while the minutes is the shorter version. Moreover, we moved the minutes from working groups and workshops into annexes to make the report even shorter. We know some of you are disappointed by this decision, but we cannot make everyone happy. We hope you understand this.
 
The right to vote
Marianne Laxen, WILPF Finland, sent an email to all of us (ExCom and the IB) asking us to correct the list of sections with the right to vote. It is true that sections which haven’t paid their section fees (or negotiated about them) don’t have the right to vote at our meetings, but the fact is that this was not stated during the formalities for this IB meeting and everyone voted. We haven’t changed this as we cannot change what really happened. What we can do is to make sure it doesn’t happen next time.
 
Regarding resolutions
The resolution on drones is finalised. You can see it here. Please note that a resolution is not the same as a statement. The resolution on the Palestinian prisoner is not complete. We are waiting for a draft from WILPF Palestine and until then we cannot write the resolution. 

Remember that you always can get in contact with us on the email: 2excom@wilpf.ch