WILPF Mission

The Women's International League for Peace and freedom (WILPF) has been working since 1915 to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation. WILPF stands for equality of all people in a world free of racism, sexism and homophobia; the building of a constructive peace through world disarmament; and the changing of government priorities to meet human needs.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom aims to bring together women of different political and philosophical convictions united in their determination to study make known and help abolish the causes and concept of war. These women are working toward world peace, for total universal disarmament, the abolition of violence and coercion in the settlement of conflicts and the substitution in each case of negotiation and conciliation. In this work they may also work with the United Nations and its specialized agencies for the strengthening of international laws, to strive for political and social equality, economic equity, co-operation among all people and for a development within a sustainable environment.

Peace is more than the absence of war or the maintenance of order through force. Peace requires the dedication to nonviolent means for the resolution of conflict and the building of institutions for world development and world community. WILPF believes that to achieve freedom and justice in our own country and peaceful relations with other countries we must build a non exploitative society. As our third International congress stated in 1921: we must " transform the economic system in the direction of social justice."
Peace and Freedom are indivisible.

Freedom means equal rights and responsibilities for all under a system of laws based on justice. It includes the right of government responsive to the will and the needs of the people, and freedom from political or economic subjugation. Freedom requires safeguarding minority rights and the right of dissent.

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