Category: Women Leading for Peace
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Say NO to the Australian Defence Force in Ukraine
We must change the direction of defence policies. WILPF Australia has called on Australians to help change plans to send Defence forces to Ukraine to train their soldiers. Australia should have learnt from so many past overseas conflicts that this is just an introduction to military engagement overseas. It will drag young Australians into conflict…
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Send a message to Clare O’Neil: Bring Australians home from Syria!
Our new Home Affairs Minister, Clare O’Neil, has the power to bring home Australians, who are stuck in refugee camps in Syria. Save the Children has estimated that more than 60 Australians, including 47 children, are located across the Al-Hol and Roj camps. Many are family members of men who travelled to Syria and Iraq…
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WILPF welcomes the increase in women parliamentarians
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) welcomes the great increase in women’s representation in the Australian Parliament. With a few seats still in doubt, it is projected that the House of Representatives will have 37% women, and the Senate 58%. The new ALP Government is set to see women outnumber men for the first…
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Women, Peace and Security and the End of the Korean War – what are the lessons?
On the Korean peninsula, women activists, religious groups, domestic and international civil society organisations have been working together for reconciliation for over seven decades to bring about the end of the Korean War. While the guns may have ceased firing 68 years ago, the “war” continues, and today the Korean peninsula continues to be affected…
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It’s Time to End the Korean War
WILPF Statement for International Day of Peace 2021 Over 70 years after the Korean War first ignited, a formal peace agreement has yet to be reached – meaning the war that wreaked havoc on the Koreas, with four million casualties and 10 million families separated, continues to this day. This International Day of Peace, the…
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WILPF Australia PeaceWomen Awards 2021
To WILPF members, Friends of WILPF and the Wider Community, you are invited to Join the Australian peace and social justice communities online for the WILPF Australia National PeaceWomen Awards on Thursday 20 May at 6.30pm, AEST. Come and join with communities across the country as WILPF Australia presents PeaceWomen Awards to six wonderful women.…
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WILPF Australia Triennial Conference 2021 – Book now!
WILPF Australia Triennial Conference22 & 23 May 2021Online or in person – for All Members YES! All current members of WILPF Australia and YWILPF Australia are invited to book for the WILPF Australia Triennial Conference to be held on Saturday and Sunday 22 and 23 May 2021. This is a brilliant opportunity to connect and…