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Article: Gather 'round the Peace Table.(Around and about WILPF)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with other women's associations come together to protect women's rights and to prevent future wars)
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- Peace and Freedom
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- September 22, 2007
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Since the dismantling of the President's Interagency Council on Women in 2001 and the downsizing of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, there has been no official means of convening U.S. women on a national scale. As a result, women as a constituency and women's interests become pawns in electoral debates whose victors cannot be held accountable to the promises they have made. But this upcoming election year, we don't have to let the politicians set the terms of the debate on Iraq, nuclear weapons, national sovereignty, or the environment.
Last fall, WILPF's Advancing Human Rights Committee launched A Women's Agenda to Prevent War, a project aimed ...