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Peace Team CoP on Self-Awareness

Host: WILPF’s Peace Team About: The Peace Team’s Community of Practice happens monthly, join us for an opportunity to share, discuss, and practice the Culture Building Toolkit tools, and learn from and with each other. Participate in our next session to learn how self awareness undermines the patriarchy! There are two identical sessions to accommodate […]

All Over the World, Women Speak Out Against NATO

Host: Global Women United for Peace Against NATO About: As we prepare to speak out against the biggest geopolitical war alliance in the world -NATO – Global Women United for Peace Against NATO and supporting organisations, will gather a host of strong female role models from across the world to voice their concerns over NATO. […]

Webinar for the launch of the ‘Pacific Neutrality Campaign’

Host: Pacific Peace Network & World BEYOND War About:  Campaign launch webinar, Call on Governments – Declare Neutrality & Prevent a U.S.-China War, a peace and solidarity campaign by the Peoples of the Pacific and Pacific Rim Nations. Open to: Network members How to participate: Contact greta@worldbeyondwar.org For more information: Learn more

Bonn Climate Conference (SB62)

Host: UNFCCC Open to: Accreditaion needed to participate About: The Bonn Climate Change Conference, officially known as the UN Climate Change Conference (SB62), is a pivotal event in the global climate policy calendar. Held annually in Bonn, Germany, it serves as a preparatory meeting for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate […]

59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC59)

Convener: United Nations Human Rights Council Open to: Public (with accreditation) Event Type: High-level session, panel discussions, interactive dialogues, country reviews How to Participate or Follow In-person attendance: Accreditation required via UNOG IndicoLive stream & recordings: UN Web TVFollow updates on social media: @UN_HRC For more information on the session please click here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session59/regular-session

International Day of Women in Diplomacy

Convenor: Human Right Council The International Day of Women in Diplomacy was first established by the UNGA, and now the HRC through a recently adopted resolution. WILPF Secretary-General Dr Amrita Kapur will participate on a panel that will focus on overcoming barriers to women’s leadership in peace processes in Geneva.

The Fourth Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4)

Location: Sevilla, Spain The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. FFD4 Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre. […]

No to NATO Counter Summit

Counter No To NATO Summit is being organised the week before the formal NATO summit in The Netherlands. Many WILPF members will be attending the Counter Summit. Panels, film screenings and demonstrations will take place to protest against this. For more information contact: Sofian Antonellini on: sofi.antonellini@wilpf.org or Heidi Meinzolt from WILPF Germany on: meinzolt@wilpf.de For more information see: No […]

Screening of Power on Patrol – a WILFF documentary together with critical conversations on demillitarised futures.

A poster features a rifle with a red poppy at its barrel. Large text reads Weapons, Wounds, and What Comes After. Event details are included: June 20, 7 PM, Bar Bario, Amsterdam. Various organization logos appear at the bottom.

Location: The Netherlands  Host: WILPF & RWW About: Join us for an evening of critical film and collective conversation exploring the entanglements of militarised masculinities, forced displacement, and ongoing armed conflicts. The evening will feature a screening of the documentary “Power on Patrol” followed by a participatory discussion, centring voices from conflict zones and diasporas. DJ […]

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.