Demands on Forthcoming WILPF.*Congress in Celebration of Hundreth Anniversary

Wanted from  forthcoming WILPF* Congress  in Celebration of Hundredth Anniversary is a forward pointing message on which further peace work can  built. 

Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Frauen im Hague 1915 fordert Frieden! Such a message or statement or resolution would have  to

• Condemn the warrior policies of the US hegemony and   its concept of exceptionalism, especially with respect towards  the highly dangerous conflict zone Ukraine
• Say that supplying (more and even lethal) arms can by no means  be the answer!
• Ask for diplomatic solutions of  conflicts in all parts of the world, especially in Europe at this point, from which  two World Wars have originated in the last century
• Call for a renewed pledge to absolutely abide by the UN-Charta in its original spirit  and by  the follow up Conventions.
• Renew the pledge that  our for-sisters made and call upon all women and men to study the root causes of war and last not least
• Work for an alternative economic order in our respective societies so that peace, built on justice may be established  last for ever and secure the survival of the human species.

  

  Friedenssymbol am Rande des Platzes der Nationen in Genf

* Wilpf= Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( German: IFFF= Internationale Frauenliga für Frieden und Freihheit) founded in the midst of WWI by an important stream of the suffragette movement. First president Jane Addams.

In Germany only left active branch  stationed in MUNIC, city of two prestigious WILPF co-founders Lida Gustava Heymann and Anita Augsburg. Jewish banker's daughter

Gertrud Baer  was also internationally known and became first representative of the NGO at ECOSOC in Geneva, where  the organization still enjoys consultative status.

Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)

"Founded in 1915, the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) is the oldest women's peace organization in the world. It is a non-profit non-governmental organization working 'to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace' and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation. WILPF has National Sections in 37 countries. WILPF is headquartered in Geneva (Switzerland) and maintains a United Nations Office in New York City (USA)... Two WILPF leaders have received the Nobel Peace Prize for their peace efforts and international outlook and work with WILPF: Jane Addams in 1931 and Emily Greene Balch in 1946."