Category: Women Leading for Peace
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Australian Women Leading for a Feminist Peace
This year, the WILPF Australia National PeaceWomen Awards proudly acknowledges and honours five outstanding women who are each leading for peace in Australia and/or internationally in areas that WILPF values. The PeaceWomen Awardees for 2024 Top photo: WILPF Australia National PeaceWomen Awardees from L-R: Megan Davis, Aunty Pat Anderson, Amanda Ruler and Michelle Maloney, with…
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Will Senator Payman influence Australian Government Decision Makers?
Senator Fatima Payman is one of the youngest members of the Albanese Government. Until recently she was unknown to most Australians except in her home state of Western Australia, she first came to attention when she publicly challenged the Prime Minister to be more vocal about genocide in Gaza and this was followed by a…
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SAVE the DATE: WILPF Australia PeaceWomen Awards 2024
Celebrating Women Working for Peace Friday 17 May. BRISBANE. Online and in person at 6.30 pm. The Awardees have just been announced: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Australia (WILPF) National PeaceWomen Awards acknowledge and honour Australian women who are leading for peace in a range of areas that accord with WILPF’s vision.…
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Australia must restore aid to Gaza and condemn the Israeli Government’s latest atrocity
Australia must restore aid to Gaza and condemn the Israeli Government’s latest atrocity in firing on aid trucks in Gaza so dozens of desperate Palestinians were deliberately killed as the Israel Defence Force open fired on them. Australians can view this blatant attack on Al Jazeera News, yet already some local media outlets are reporting…
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The Australian Parliament fails to uphold international law preventing genocide in Gaza
WILPF Australia President, Margaret Reynolds, has written an article in Pearls and Irritations detailing how the Australian Parliament has failed to uphold international law, in relation to the prevention genocide in Gaza. The Australian Parliament failed to recognise its responsibilities last week when Greens Leader Adam Bandt, responding to the International Court of Justice interim…
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Letter to PM: Please urgently restore aid to UNRWA
WILPF Australia has written an urgent letter to Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese urging him to restore funding to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA). Read the letter below. 2 February 2024Anthony AlbanesePrime MinisterParliament HouseCanberra ACT 2600 Dear Prime Minister, We are deeply disturbed by your government’s decision to suspend aid to…
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Women call for Australia to support international law as United Nations General Assembly Emergency Special Session debates need for Ceasefire and Humanitarian aid in Gaza
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Australia (WILPF) has called on the Federal Government to show unequivocal support for international law as this weekend’s vote at the United Nations General Assembly approaches. The catastrophic loss of life and continued violence against innocent civilians in the Middle East is so devastating that the United…
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Prospects for Peace for Korea – what are the issues, the prospects and what we can do?
Prospects for Peace for Korea. WILPF Australia webinar, 55 minutes, abridged This year, 2023—the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice—the Korean Peninsula continues to face the threat of war. With the tenuous ceasefire still the only formal mechanism in place to prevent armed conflict, tensions are again rising. Recognising the dire need for greater…
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AUKUS: A False Solution to a False Problem
In March this year, the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, along with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, unveiled a $368-billion-dollar plan detailing Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines over the next thirty years (Office of the Prime Minister 2023). The plan is part of AUKUS, a trilateral security coalition formed by…
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WILPF Submission to Senate Select Committee into Australia’s Disaster Resilience
WILPF has submitted several recommendations to a Senate Select Committee for Australia’s Disaster Resilience regarding the possible reforms to be made to the Australian Governments disaster relief processes. The submission draws on a research report published by WILPF in 2020, Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology. WILPF Australia welcomes the opportunity to make a submission…