updated Wed. August 14, 2024
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ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
LIMPAL, Health Works's partner in Colombia is a sectional branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Founded in 1915, WILPF International is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. WILPF works to achieve peace through non-violent conflict resolution andÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 22, 2018
A 2016 report from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), released just a few months before Shakalili's research, is one of the few other studies of women's experiences in the DRC's informal mining sector. Based on a survey conducted in Katanga province, it describedÃâà...
Auburn Journal
March 15, 2018
A couple of weeks ago, wanting a few minutes with my crossword puzzle, I entered the coffee shop. As I moved toward the counter with my mug, I passed a table where a man and a woman, both older than I, were talking. He was talking at her, actually. She was listening. Soon, the barista brought him overÃâà...
The Strategist (blog)
March 15, 2018
For example, the campaign for the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018 (NAP) was led by the Australian section of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and UNIFEM Australia (now UN Women Australia) working with other locally basedÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
March 11, 2018
KUWAIT, March 11 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Sunday congratulated the wife of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States after she was honored by the UN-affiliated Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In a letter he sent toÃâà...
Bloomfield College News
February 28, 2018
... Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, she is a winner of the 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades, the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Humanities for 1988, the Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.) for 1989,Ãâà...
SF Bay Area Indymedia
February 27, 2018
When she and her husband, Chuck, moved to Santa Cruz County in 1980 to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren, Pat immediately became involved with the local Chapters of W.I.L.P.F. and the N.A.A.C.P., and later helped found the Santa Cruz County Chapter of The United Nations Association.
The Prospector
February 26, 2018
The WILPF is an organization that works to achieve racial and economic justice, world disarmament and other rights for women. Corona will gain temporary delegate status, where she will have the opportunity to observe how the United Nations works to address certain issues that require multilateralÃâà...
ReliefWeb
November 1, 2017
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has always thrived to amplify women's voices and bring their experiences to human rights bodies and the international fora. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a State-driven process under the Human Rights Council (HRC) whichÃâà...
goodtimes
January 31, 2017
5, when the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) celebrates her larger-than-life story, in an event entitled “Hats On to Jan Harwood: A Celebratory Tribute to an Unconventional Activist.” Harwood is also a founding member of the Santa Cruz Raging Grannies, a self-describedÃâà...
