Category: News
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Why the urgency of COVID-19 threatens to silence women
In the best of times, Australian women perform almost double the amount of time on caring duties compared to men. So what happens in today’s difficult times? Yasmin Poole, WILPF’s 2020 Asia Pacific Youth Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, discusses an underlying truth about women that COVID has revealed.…
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Celebrate WILPF Tasmania Centenary and Human Rights Week
Join WILPF Tasmania on 4 December for A Soup and Sandwich Luncheon to celebrate the Centenary of the Tasmanian Branch of WILPF Australia – and also Human Rights Week. Our Special Guest Speaker will be Professor MARGARET REYNOLDS. As a young Townsville mother in 1970, Margaret began working for peace via her campaign to establish…
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WILPF Australia Women, Peace and Security 2020 Webinar Series
WILPF Australia presents this thought-provoking webinar series to build understanding and awareness of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and to help inform discussion and action on how to promote and support women’s meaningful participation in building sustainable peace. (Click the links below to access recordings.) Webinar 1 Women, Peace and Security: Civil Society’s…
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Celebrate the Nuclear Ban Treaty achievement – and call on Australia to join.
On United Nations Day, 24 October 2020, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) reached 50 ratifications by nation states – the number required for the TPNW to enter into force and become international law in 90 days on 22 January 2021. This achievement has been brought about through the enormous and sustained…
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WILPF takes “end nuclear weapons” message to Mt Isa
The WILPF Australia “Cities and Towns” campaign is touring regional Queensland to help make all our communities safe from the danger of nuclear weapons.
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SCR 1325 – 20 years on where are we now?
On 31 October 2000, the first ever resolution on Women, Peace and Security, Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325), was unanimously adopted by United Nations Security Council.
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Happy 100th Birthday WILPF in Australia: 1920 to 2020.
It’s May 1919. Can we even begin to imagine what it was like for a small group of women to travel from Australia to Zurich for a second international women’s peace congress?
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Cities Appeal: Local Councils Need to Make Our Cities and Towns Nuclear Target Free and Urge the Australian Government to Ban Nuclear Weapons.
WILPF has always passionately supported the abolition of nuclear weapons*. WILPF Australia is actively supporting ICAN’s Cities Appeal*, a campaign of the Nobel Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Cities and towns have a crucial role to play in raising awareness and building support across Australia and the world for the United Nations…