WILPF Timeline

WILPF Timeline

1914 -- Peace Party established in NY. Later renamed WILPF NY Metro Branch.

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. Conferences 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

1996 -- Peace Trains throughout the United States

1997 -- Symposium on Truth and Reconciliation

1998 -- International WILPF Congress held in Baltimore, MD, focusing on effects of globalization on women worldwide

1998 -- Legislative Office opened; WILPF re-establishes a presence in Washington, D.C.

1999 -- Reaching Critical WIll founded. Facilitates broader NGO involvement in the 2000 Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

2003 -- Organized to keep the U.S. from invading Iraq.

2005 -- Resistance to the recruitment of soldiers for an illegal war. Participation in the Granny Peace Brigade.