Chronological Herstory

1915 The Hague Congress: suffragist women demand an end to WWI
1919 The Zurich Confrence: WILPF denounces the Treaty of Versailles as creating the conditions for future war
1922 Conference for a New Peace held at The Hague, calls for the convening of a World Congress to draw up a new agreement for genuine peace
1924 Campaign mobilizes scientists to refuse to engage in war research
1926 Mission to Haiti to investigate the effects of the occupation by the U.S. Marines
1927 Mission to Indochina and China to establish and strengthen links with women
1931 Jane Addams, one of WILPF's founding mothers is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is declared "The most dangerous woman in America" by the FBI
1932 WILPF collects six million signatures in the World Disarmament Petition delivered to the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva
1945 As one of the founding NGOs, WILPF attends the first U.N. Conference in San Francisco, promoting world security that is based on freedom and justicenot military power and prestige
1946 Emily Greene Balch, WILPF's first International Secretary is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1958 Women's mission to the Middle East to investigate conditions
1961 Pioneers the first of a series of U.S.Soviet Women's Seminars to help break down the cold war barriers
1969 Sponsors an international conference to end chemical and biological warfare
1970 InterAmerican Women's Conference in Bogota, Colombia
1971 Women from North and South Vietnam sign the Women's Peace Treaty while International WILPF President Kay Camp and Madame Ngo Bataan travel through Vietnam together to help promote healing and an end to the Vietnam War
1973 Mission to Chile to investigate human rights violations
1974 Delegation to Northern Ireland to investigate the situation and help promote forces working for a peaceful solution of the conflict
1975 WILPF convenes Women's Disarmament Conference at the U.N. in N.Y.
1981 Establishes the Gertrude Baer Internships for young women to learn about lobbying and participating in the U.N. Confrences in Geneva and NY
1982 STAR Campaign to Stop The Arms Race brings a million signatures on a petition for disarmament to the U.N. Disarmament Conference
1983 Mass rally in Brussels demanding that NATO cancel the deployment of Cruise and Pershing Missiles in Western Europe
1984 WILPF launches a worldwide campaign for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Helps to Establish the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Social Justice
1985 Creates and hosts the Peace Tent at the U.N. Third World Women's Conference in Nairobi, Kenya Publication of the Women's Budget that demonstrates how our inflated military budget denies basic human needs
1990 Launches a worldwide Women vs. Violence campaign to confront violence from the interpersonal to the international Women's Treaty of The Americas signed at WILPF International Congress in Bolivia
1992 Women's delegation to Cuba investigates the effects of the U.S. blockade on women and children on the island
1993 Campaign for the International Court of Justice to declare rape a wartime crime in response to the violence of the wars in Haiti and Bosnia
1994 Clothesline Projects that highlight the prevalence and effects of violence against women are held by WILPF branches Acts as an Official Observer Mission to monitor elections in South Africa Launches the "Practice Anti-Racism" Campaign to redress local racist incidents
1995 Peace Trains exploring peace and justice issues travel from Helsinki to Beijing and around the world
Hosts the Peace Tent at the Fourth World Womens NGO Conference in Huairou,
China, with other peace groups and delivers the Peace Caucus address to the
Governmental Conference in Beijing