WILPF UK

We are the UK section of The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, an international, feminist NGO. Our mission is to end and prevent war; ensure that women are represented at all levels in the peace-building process; defend the human rights of women and men; and promote social, economic and political justice. Our four main campaign themes are Human Rights; Climate Justice; Disarmament; Women, Peace & Security. The aims and principles of WILPF are: To bring together women of different political beliefs and philosophies who are united in their determination to study, make known and help abolish the causes and the legitimization of war; to work toward world peace; total and universal disarmament; the abolition of violence and coercion in the settlement of conflict and their substitution in every case of negotiation and conciliation; the strengthening of the United Nations system; the continuous development and implementation of international law; political and social equality and economic equity; co-operation among all people; and environmentally sustainable development. Believing that under systems of exploitation these aims cannot be attained and real and lasting peace and true freedom cannot exist, WILPF makes it its duty to further by non-violent means the social transformation that enables the inauguration of systems under which social and political equality and economic equity for all can be attained, without discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion or any other grounds whatsoever.