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Article: Focussing on freedom.
- Article from:
- International Peace Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The current issue is devoted to concepts of freedom within WILPF as related to the global situation. How did this word freedom, full of significance and different meanings make its way into the title of WILPF in 1915? What were the pressing political reasons that made the word peace precede the word freedom at a time when the First World War was raging?
WILPF as an organisation has been struggling and working for peace for almost nine decades, almost a century. It has forged a place for itself in the peace movement with great upheavals, ups and downs alongside other NGOs and solidarity coalitions. Its work has left behind footsteps and landmarks in the evolution ...