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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Madeleine Selina Rees , OBE is a British lawyer and current Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . She has spoken out against human rights abuses in Bosnia by peacekeepers and others working for the United Nations .
Fanny Garrison Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, chair of the August 1914 Woman's Peace Parade Committee, and initiator of the Woman's Peace Party. Although the establishment of a permanent organization did not follow for more than four months, the roots of the Woman's Peace Party lay in a protest march of 1,500 women in New York City on August 29, 1914. [1]
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is a feminist peace-building organization and news platform that promotes and amplifies the voices of women and allies, “advancing peaceful ...
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people (134 P) Pages in category "Women's International League for Peace and Freedom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Pages in category "Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people" The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Edith Ballantyne (born 10 December 1922) is a Czech-born Canadian citizen, who has been a prominent member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) since 1969. At that time, she became the executive secretary of the international organisation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, serving in that capacity for twenty-three years ...
The organizations were the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Federation of Settlements, the Women's Trade Union League of America, the National Council of Women of the U.S.A., and the NAACP. [12] Balch won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF ...