Tag: feminist peace
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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 acts for Korea Peace Now
WILPF Australia is actively supporting the international campaign for a peace treaty to be negotiated between North and South Korea. Since 1953, there has only been a ceasefire in operation. Internationally, WILPF was one of the initiating partners in the Korea Peace Now! campaign, a global coalition of women’s peace organisations calling on the United…
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Australia’s Local Councils call for Federal Govt to Join the Ban Treaty
FROM ICAN Australia & WILPF Australia PRESS RELEASE – Monday 21 June 2021 Unanimous Vote At its National General Assembly in Canberra [on 21 June 2021] the Australian Local Government Association unanimously passed a motion calling on Australia to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The motion was moved by…
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WILPF Australia’s submission to the IPAN People’s Inquiry
Read WILPF Australia’s submission to the IPAN People’s Inquiry into the Case for an Independent and Peaceful Australia – the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the US Alliance.
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Breaking Through the Addiction to Weapons – WILPF Webinar
View Breaking Through the Addiction to Weapons: Feminist Critiques of Militarism, webinar, 26 May 2021. WILPF representatives Ludmilla Kwitko and Barb O’Dwyer in Australia join WILPF Sections from Aotearoa, Japan, Germany and Italy to present and compare recent developments in militarisation in their countries, and to consider feminist alternatives to military spending. Taking place in the…
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Militarisation in Australia – the Report
Have you noticed the trend towards increasing militarisation in Australia? WILPF Australia’s reports on this trend from 2010-2020.
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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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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…