We have a wide range of partnerships and collaborations that help us to work towards our vision of a world of permanent peace and equality and justice for all.
Global Affairs Canada works to define, shape and advance Canada’s interests and values in a complex global environment and manages diplomatic relations, promotes international trade and leads on international development, humanitarian, and peace and security assistance efforts.
Sida is Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation. We strive to reduce poverty and oppression around the world. In cooperation with organisations, government agencies and the private sector we invest in sustainable development for all people.
The FDFA, headed by Ignazio Cassis, determines and coordinates Swiss foreign policy on behalf of the Federal Council. The FDFA consists of the organisational units at head office in Bern and Switzerland’s external network, which includes embassies, consulates, cooperation offices and missions.
The Ministry acts in the world to build a safer, more prosperous and more sustainable future for New Zealanders.
Ireland’s development cooperation programme aims to reduce poverty, hunger and humanitarian need, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. By supporting long term development and providing humanitarian assistance in over eighty countries, on behalf of the Irish people, we are helping to build better futures for some of the world’s poorest communities.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Sweden’s missions abroad are responsible for Sweden’s foreign, development cooperation and trade policy.
Norad – the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – is a professional body under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). In matters concerning Norway’s climate and forestry initiative, Norad is a subordinate of the Ministry of Climate and Environment (KLD). Our work is founded on instructions and allocation letters from the Norwegian ministries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands focuses on contributing to humanitarian aid, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. As a long-term donor, the Netherlands has built up a good reputation in Yemen and supports various programs and activities in the field of security & rule of law, public health, and water & sanitation.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is the main german development cooperation and a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. They have over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security.
Since Liechtenstein joined the organization in 1990, the Permanent Mission in New York has established itself as an active partner at the United Nations. The Permanent Mission participates in particular in multilateral processes and negotiations in the areas of UN reform, human rights, international law and the rule of law, international criminal law and humanitarian affairs.
The Cultural Service (SEC) of the Ville de Genève is the interlocutor privilege of artists, associations, institutions and foundations that exist in the domain of art, creation and cultural manifestations.
Channel Foundation promotes women’s human rights by funding intersecting streams of the global movement for gender equality.
The United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) supports local and grassroots women’s civil society leaders and their organizations in conflict and crisis settings worldwide.
Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Through our grant-making, we support others to make the world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live. With offices in Europe, India, and North America, we make grants to organisations in approximately 40 countries worldwide.
The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a grant-making foundation established in 1995. The Trust runs ten grant-making programmes, organised under three themes: human rights; fairness and inclusion and the environment. In addition, we make occasional grants in other fields, including medical and humanities research.
PAX sapiens’ mission is to generate new systems of collective coordination to address serious, systemic global problems at the root of armed conflict.
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.
The Ford Foundation’s mission has sought to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
PeaceNexus is a Swiss private foundation that helps strengthen the capacities of and collaboration between peacebuilding organisations. Based across Switzerland, West Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and the Western Balkans, the PeaceNexus team works with local actors and international organisations active in fragile states that support local initiatives or shape national and international policy.
UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.
As the lead United Nations entity mandated to promote and protect human rights for all, OHCHR works with and assists Governments in fulfilling their human rights obligations; provides a forum for identifying, highlighting and developing responses to today’s human rights challenges; and acts as the principal focal point of human rights research, education, public information, and advocacy activities
The UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.
Graduate Institute was then the first academic institution in the world entirely devoted to the study of international affairs. Its vocation is to analyse and stimulate critical thinking in the fields of international relations and development issues through its teaching (master and PhD programmes), research, executive education and public events.
The Pathfinders is a cross-regional impact hub of 46 member states housed within NYU, as well as partners across international organizations, civil society, and the private sector committed to advancing the Sustainable Development Goal targets for peace, justice, inclusion, and equality.
At the Violence, Inequality, and Power (VIP) Lab, we seek to understand how inequalities of power shape the landscape of violence. We deliver practical, actionable ideas that partners can implement at the systems level to confront harmful power inequalities and reduce violence.
Lawyers for Justice in Libya is a Libyan and international independent non-governmental organization, committed to achieving justice and respect for human rights in Libya working with a growing network of lawyers, activists and grassroots communities. Their work is rooted in a rights-based and victim-centered approach through advocacy and outreach, accountability, transitional justice initiatives and capacity building underpinned by independent research.
The Peace Track Initiative (PTI) is a feminist track II organisation, founded in 2017 by women inside and outside of Yemen in order to support peacebuilding and political transformation, contributing a feminist perspective. PTI works to create conditions for localised and inclusive peacebuilding by strengthening and consolidating movement(s) for feminist peace in Yemen. PTI creates safe spaces for dialogue, the production of feminist knowledge, and the promotion of feminist leadership to position diverse women’s voices in the diplomatic tracks of peace and political processes, and with stakeholders at the local, national, and international levels.
The Women’s Major Group is a self-organised network with between 500 and 1000 organisations from over 100 countries, which continuously provides input into the global policy processes on Sustainable Development.
The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 33 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who work to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and results of the UNFCCC framework, for a sustainable and just future, so that gender equality and women’s human rights are central to the ongoing discussions.
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative is a global effort to foster international cooperation to accelerate a transition to renewable energy for everyone, end the expansion of coal, oil and gas, and equitably phase out existing production in keeping with what science shows is needed to address the climate crisis.
Climate Action Network (CAN) is the world’s largest climate network made up of more than 1,900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries, together fighting the climate crisis.
The Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group, an informal network of researchers and activists committed to ending militarisation of the climate crisis. Since 2022, our working group has been under the umbrella of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice as we seek to build stronger links between the peace and climate justice movements.
Created in 2020, the ECCP is based in Geneva with more the 950 members globally. Created by the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) as part of their mandate to facilitate interaction on peacebuilding between different actors, institutions and sectors and to incubate collective initiatives.
The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, a project of Tides Center, is a consensus-based coalition of 18 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda at the United Nations and around the world.
#EndAusterity is a campaign that brings together concerned people, civil society, activists and experts, in raising awareness and advocating against austerity measures. The campaign is calling on policy-makers to fulfill their promises to “build back better”.
The Gender and Trade Coalition actively shapes a trade justice agenda by increasing consciousness, capacity, research and advocacy for policy alternatives which promote a more just and sustainable world.
The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy is a human rights think tank dedicated to advocating for Feminist Foreign Policy. The Centre challenges the conventional norms of international politics, particularly its emphasis on militarised state security, and instead promotes foreign and security policies that prioritise human rights.
The Consortium’s work aims to use knowledge about gender and security to end armed conflicts and build sustainable international peace. It seeks to further the development of new knowledge on the topics of gender, armed conflict and security, while also bridging the gap between the scholarly research community and policy makers.
ICAN is a broad, inclusive campaign, focused on mobilizing civil society around the world to support the specific objective of prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons. The ICAN international structure consists of partner organizations, an international steering group and an international staff team. ICAN is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
INEW is an NGO partnership calling for immediate action to prevent human suffering from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
Launched in 2013, the Stop Killer Robots is a membership-based coalition that works to ensure human control in the use of force. Our campaign calls for new international law on autonomy in weapons systems.
Humanitarian disarmament seeks to prevent and remediate arms-inflicted human suffering and environmental harm through the establishment and implementation of norms. This approach to disarmament is people-centered in substance and process.
The Forum on the Arms Trade is a network of civil society experts seeking to strengthen public efforts to address the humanitarian, economic and other implications of arms transfers, security assistance, and weapons use.
MenEngage Alliance is a global network that brings together people and organisations with a shared vision of a world in which gender justice and human rights are recognized, promoted and protected, where all people are equal and free from discrimination and oppression.
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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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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
