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Peace Connect: Peacebuilding Gathering

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Organiser: Peace Connect Description: Peace Connect is a five-day gathering for local peacebuilders and their allies. Over 13-17 October 2025, we’ll come together in Nairobi, Kenya, for a week of connection, creativity, and collective action. Open to: Attendees from Global South countries have priority, but funders, INGOs and network members from the Global North are […]

Online Fundraising Event for WILPF Palestine

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Host: WILPF US & WILPF’s Global Palestine Working Group Description: Members from WILPF US and the Palestine Working Group are hosting a virtual fundraising event to support WILPF Palestine to re-open their office in Jerusalem. Open to: the public! How to join: Join us on Zoom!

Where is the Women, Peace and Security Agenda after 25 years?

Blue graphic with the WILPF Australia logo, a white dove, and text: Where is the Women, Peace and Security Agenda after 25 years? 1 October 2025, 18:00-19:30 (online).

Host: WILPF Australia About: On the 25th Anniversary on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 – where are we on making progress on the women, peace and security agenda, and what has been achieved? After 25 years it is hard to see the progress when increasing numbers of women, girls and civilians are caught up in increasing […]

Peer-learning Session: Unpacking and transforming harmful masculinities

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Host: Young WILPF Network Open to: Members of WILPF, UNOY, and Service Civic International About: In collaboration with the Gender and Protection Team of United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) and Service Civil International, the Young WILPF’s Youth, Peace and Security working group is organising a peer-learning session on “Unpacking and transforming harmful masculinities”. This peer-learning session aims […]

Let’s Talk about the Funding Crisis

The unprecedented cuts to foreign aid, changing philanthropic priorities and shrinking civic space are threatening rights and social justice organisations and movements worldwide. To survive, we may need to reimagine what ‘resourcing’ will look like in the near future, and work together to ensure the sustainability of feminist movements for peace. This is a global […]

Peace Is All of Us Summit – Dialogue with Intergenerational Women Peacebuilders

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Host/event owner/convener:United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), NYU Center for International Collaboration, the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and UN Women.  Open to:Public When?Tuesday, 23 September 20254:30 – 6:00 PM (New York time) Click here to convert to your time zone Where? UN Women Headquarters, 19th floor, 220 […]

Voices from Gaza: Feminist Resistance under Siege and the Cost of Complicity

Event poster with illustrations of four women and text: A Podcast Screening & Panel Discussion: Voices from Gaza. Feminist Resistance under Siege & the Cost of Complicity. 19 September – 3 PM CEST, Geneva, Switzerland.

Host/event owner/convener: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Open to: Public When: 19 September 2025, 3:00–6:00 PM CEST | FIPOI Auditorium, Rue de Varembé 9–11, Geneva Event type: Podcast Screening and Panel Discussion About: On the margins of the Human Rights Council’s 60th session, join us for an immersive event centering the voices of Palestinian women under […]

Global Day of Education to #CloseBases

A graphic with a world map background and red dots reads: Global Day of Education to #CloseBases. Oct 4. Local educational events. worldbeyondwar.org/oct4 in bold white and red text.

Host/event owner/convener: World BEYOND War Open to: Public When: 4 October 2025 Event type: Advocacy date About: World BEYOND War is organising a Global Day of Education to raise awareness about military bases.  Military bases are part of the disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars. This increased militarism makes wars more likely, and the […]

Matt Mahmoudi

Matt Mahmoudi (he/him) is a lecturer, researcher, and organizer. He’s been leading the “Ban the Scan” campaign, Amnesty International’s research and advocacy efforts on banning facial recognition technologies and exposing their uses against racialized communities, from New York City to the occupied Palestinian territories.

Berit Aasen

Europe Alternate Regional Representative

Berit Aasen is a sociologist by training and has worked at the OsloMet Metropolitan University on Oslo. She has 40 years of experience in research and consultancy in development studies, including women, peace, and security, and in later years in asylum and refugee studies. Berit Aasen joined WILPF Norway five years ago. She is an alternate member of the National Board of WILPF Norway, and representing WILPF Norway in the UN Association of Norway, the Norwegian 1325 network and the Norwegian Women’s Lobby. Berit Aasen has been active in the WILPF European Liaison group and is committed to strengthening WILPF sections and membership both in Europe and relations across continents.

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Melissa Torres

VICE-PRESIDENT

Prior to being elected Vice-President, Melissa Torres was the WILPF US International Board Member from 2015 to 2018. Melissa joined WILPF in 2011 when she was selected as a Delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women as part of the WILPF US’ Practicum in Advocacy Programme at the United Nations, which she later led. She holds a PhD in Social Work and is a professor and Global Health Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine and research lead at BCM Anti-Human Trafficking Program. Of Mexican descent and a native of the US/Mexico border, Melissa is mostly concerned with the protection of displaced Latinxs in the Americas. Her work includes training, research, and service provision with the American Red Cross, the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Centre, and refugee resettlement programs in the U.S. Some of her goals as Vice-President are to highlight intersectionality and increase diversity by fostering inclusive spaces for mentorship and leadership. She also contributes to WILPF’s emerging work on the topic of displacement and migration.

Jamila Afghani

VICE-PRESIDENT

Jamila Afghani is the President of WILPF Afghanistan which she started in 2015. She is also an active member and founder of several organisations including the Noor Educational and Capacity Development Organisation (NECDO). Elected in 2018 as South Asia Regional Representative to WILPF’s International Board, WILPF benefits from Jamila’s work experience in education, migration, gender, including gender-based violence and democratic governance in post-conflict and transitional countries.

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Sylvie Jacqueline Ndongmo

PRESIDENT

Sylvie Jacqueline NDONGMO is a human rights and peace leader with over 27 years experience including ten within WILPF. She has a multi-disciplinary background with a track record of multiple socio-economic development projects implemented to improve policies, practices and peace-oriented actions. Sylvie is the founder of WILPF Cameroon and was the Section’s president until 2022. She co-coordinated the African Working Group before her election as Africa Representative to WILPF’s International Board in 2018. A teacher by profession and an African Union Trainer in peace support operations, Sylvie has extensive experience advocating for the political and social rights of women in Africa and worldwide.

WILPF Afghanistan

In response to the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban and its targeted attacks on civil society members, WILPF Afghanistan issued several statements calling on the international community to stand in solidarity with Afghan people and ensure that their rights be upheld, including access to aid. The Section also published 100 Untold Stories of War and Peace, a compilation of true stories that highlight the effects of war and militarisation on the region. 

IPB Congress Barcelona

WILPF Germany (+Young WILPF network), WILPF Spain and MENA Regional Representative

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Demilitarisation

WILPF uses feminist analysis to argue that militarisation is a counter-productive and ill-conceived response to establishing security in the world. The more society becomes militarised, the more violence and injustice are likely to grow locally and worldwide.

Sixteen states are believed to have supplied weapons to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2020 with the US supplying 74 % of weapons, followed by Russia. Much of this equipment was left behind by the US military and is being used to inflate Taliban’s arsenal. WILPF is calling for better oversight on arms movement, for compensating affected Afghan people and for an end to all militarised systems.

Militarised masculinity

Mobilising men and boys around feminist peace has been one way of deconstructing and redefining masculinities. WILPF shares a feminist analysis on the links between militarism, masculinities, peace and security. We explore opportunities for strengthening activists’ action to build equal partnerships among women and men for gender equality.

WILPF has been working on challenging the prevailing notion of masculinity based on men’s physical and social superiority to, and dominance of, women in Afghanistan. It recognizes that these notions are not representative of all Afghan men, contrary to the publicly prevailing notion.

Feminist peace​

In WILPF’s view, any process towards establishing peace that has not been partly designed by women remains deficient. Beyond bringing perspectives that encapsulate the views of half of the society and unlike the men only designed processes, women’s true and meaningful participation allows the situation to improve.

In Afghanistan, WILPF has been demanding that women occupy the front seats at the negotiating tables. The experience of the past 20 has shown that women’s presence produces more sustainable solutions when they are empowered and enabled to play a role.