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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. It was founded in April 1915, in The Hague, The Netherlands, by some 1300 women from Europe and North America from countries at war with each other. WILPF is a category B Non-Government Organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations, with chapters covering all continents. WILPF brings together women of different political beliefs and philosophies on issues of; Peace, Disarmament, Economic Justice, Environment, Racial Justice, Human Rights, United Nations. The WILPF program on Freedom and Human Rights includes preventing violence against women and the promotion of full respect for the human rights of women as indispensable for a democratic society, through providing a gender analysis of specific country situations to the Human Rights Commission.

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
International Secretary Silvi Sterr
1, rue de Verembe Case Postale 28 1211
Geneva 20 Switzerland
Phone: 41-22-919-7080
Fax: 41-22-919-7081

http://www.wilpf.int.ch/
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