Recently added articles from International Peace Update:
WILPF--moving towards the future.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The history of WILPF gives us a significant and profound platform from which we can leap to the future. We continue to recognize the inextricable link between justice, equality and security. We continue to hold our unique place in the world by bringing analyses to advocacy and highlighting ...
Looking back, learning moving forward.
Jun 01, 2009 ... WILPF had its birth in the April 1915 congress in the Hague that brought together more than 1,200 women to protest and stop the war in Europe and seek ways to build real and lasting peace and true freedom. We have learned that to achieve these aims we have to work for establishing a world ...
Out of war, actions for peace: stories from Britain, Germany.
Jun 01, 2009 ... At the start of the First World War, at a time of huge mobilisation and militarisation of civil society across Europe, there came together a group of women who questioned the decisions of male politicians to declare war. Despite the patriotic fervour and accusations of 'anti-nationalism' ...
Save the UN Charter!
Jun 01, 2009; ... In 2005, the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, proposed a United Nations reform package under the title, In Larger Freedom: Development, Security and Human Rights for All (General Assembly Document A/59/2005). The proposals were the result of reviews of the outcomes of the world ...
Changing threat perceptions in the Middle East.
Jun 01, 2009 ... International Women's Day Statement to the Conference on Disarmament Geneva 5 March 2009 We, women from many parts the world, take this opportunity to address the Conference on Disarmament, through a proxy, as we have done since 1984, and report on our seminar Getting To Peace ...