Demilitarisation

Challenge militarism and advocate for demilitarisation and disarmament.

Disarmament and demilitaristation are fundamental to permanent peace and to the achievement of WILPF’s vision. Advocating for disarmament and demilitarisation has been core to WILPF’s work since its founding in 1915.

Become a Member of WILPF Australia to join our End Nuclear Weapons OR Move the Money working group

We Advocate for Nuclear Abolition

We must reject the false narrative that increasing militarism makes us safer and advocate for building the systems and structures for non-violence conflict resolution.. 

We have learned that militarism does not deliver peace, human rights, women’s rights, or environmental protection. On the contrary, militarism actively destroys the conditions necessary for peace, justice, and sustainability.

See our Move the Money campaign that calls for real accountability for military spending and to move the money from militarisation to care, justice and sustainability. 

Our Priorities

  • Publicly advocate to challenge the dominant narrative that increased militarisation increases security.
  • Promote the ratification and implementation of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and the fulfillment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s (NPT) nuclear disarmament obligations.
  • Advocate against nuclear weapons testing, modernisation, and expansion.
  • Raise awareness of the current threat of nuclear weapons to humanity and the historical harms on people (including the disproportionate harms on Indigenous Peoples, poor communities and communities of colour, and women and girls) and on the planet.
  • Raise awareness of the current threat of nuclear weapons to humanity and the historical harms on people and on the planet.

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WILPF Australia is a volunteer-driven organisation. Your donation directly funds our advocacy, campaigns, and public education work towards feminist peace.