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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 at the Hague was an International Congress of Women conference held at The Hague, Netherlands in April 1915. It had over 1,100 delegates and it established an International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) with Jane Addams as president. It led to the creation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
The International Committee developed into the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). [18] [88] Addams continued as president, a position that entailed frequent travel to Europe and Asia. International Congress of Women in 1915. left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian – Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka, 3. Laura Hughes – Canada, 4.
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]
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman of Woman's Peace Party, president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and 1931 Nobel peace laureate. [ 12 ] Fannie Fern Andrews (1867–1950) – American educator, writer, social worker and pacifist
Three major participants of the conference from the United States that attended were, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, who attended as the president of the Woman's Peace Party (which was the precursor to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) [18] and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Emily Greene Balch, and Alice ...
She was active in the NAACP and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. "King saw, in his mother, a person who was faithful and committed to her faith community, to religious life ...
Ellen Starr Brinton (March, 16, 1886 - July 2, 1954) [1] [2] [3] was an American pacifist, human rights activist and archivist.She represented the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) both locally and internationally and was known for her lectures about her working travels abroad and on the subject of peace.