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