Since then, we’ve made great progress towards abolishing nuclear: the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted in 2017. Our work positioned us as the primary NGO liaison during the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference – producing daily newsletters, hosting daily informal government briefings for NGOsas well as organising and facilitating countless side events!

We’ve been on the forefront of advocating for a nuclear-free world since the 1950s, and recently specifically through our Reaching Critical WIll Project.įind out about why we care so much about creating a nuclear-free world and about the gendered impact of nuclear weapons by downloading this guide. In her report, which was read by WILPF members up to the 1950s, she portrayed Arab women as “ignorant, child-like and backwards” and Muslim men as chauvinistic and full of hatred, as opposed to “modern” Jewish communities.

For instance, in 1931, Elisabeth Waern Bugge (WILPF Sweden) traveled to Palestine with the aim to create mixed Jewish and Palestinian WILPF groups. Catia Cecilia Confortini pointed out in her 2012 book Intelligent Compassion: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Feminist Peace, WILPF had a long-standing practice of engaging in “fact-finding” missions, which (in the Middle East context specifically) who today can be viewed as being inscribed in the tradition of “Orientalist” travels and had similar ambiguous implications.

However, this tradition is not without its problems. Peace missions are one of WILPF’s long-lasting traditions: over the years, members have visited numerous conflict-affected areas, with the aim to report objectively on the situation and raise awareness internationally. During the 1930s, we also sent out our very first peace missions to the Balkans, Indo-China, China, Palestine, Mexico, Cuba, Egypt, Haiti, and Middle-East.

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