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Global Call on International Day of Peace: Building From Within

Event type: Global Call Host: WILPF International Secretariat Open to: WILPF Members Only Date: Monday, 16 September 2024,10:00-11:30 CEST (Convert to your time zone here) About: A Call to Strengthen Our Movement for Better Advocacy, Synergy and Solidarity How to participate: This is a WILPF members only event. To register please check the members newsletter or contact: memberhsip@wilpf.org.

HRC57 Side Event: Advancing Accountability in Afghanistan – The Role of the UN Human Rights Council

Type of event: Side Event to the 57th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (in-person event without interpretation)   About the event: This side event will discuss and present recommendations to the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council on how it should respond to calls for additional measures to advance accountability, including criminal accountability, in Afghanistan.   […]

Global Week of Action on Nuclear Spending

About the campaign: From September 16 to 22, 2024 we’re taking on the absurd amount of money spent on nuclear weapons with a global week of action with one clear message: “No Money for Nuclear Weapons!” We need everyone to push back against this unacceptable squandering of vast sums of money on weapons of mass […]

Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice

About this campaign: The Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice will run yearly, involving a wide range of events and actions organised by groups around the world, from webinars to advocacy events to demonstrations. Working together, we will: Organisers: This week is being facilitated by a sub-committee of the Arms, Militarism and Climate […]

Side Event to ATT CSP10: The Right of Access to Information and Arms Transfers: Preventing Lethal Secrecy

Type of event: Side Event to the 10th Conference of State Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty (in-person event without interpretation)  Event title: The Right of Access to Information and Arms Transfers: Preventing Lethal Secrecy  Location: CICG – Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland – Room B  About the event: The effective implementation of the right of […]

Stop Fossil Fuels from Fuelling Conflict: Why a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Is An Essential Climate Tool For Peace

Host/event owner/convener: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT) Event type: Webinar About the event: Join us for an insightful webinar as we delve into groundbreaking research by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) on the intersection of fossil fuels, conflict, and peace. The webinar will […]

UN General Assembly High-Level Debate, 79th Session

Host/event owner/convener: United Nations  Where? New York Event type: Key Advocacy date More information: The 79th session of the UN General Assembly high-level debate is scheduled to open on 24 September 2024.

Preparatory Committee for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Host/event owner/convener: United Nations  Where? Geneva, Switzerland Event type: Key Advocacy date About: The Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is scheduled to hold its second session from 22 July to 2 August 2024 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. […]

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.