Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) grew out of the International Congress of Women held at The Hague in 1915 and the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace held in Zurich in 1919. The League was active throughout the 1920s in matters of peace and freedom around the world, and sent out a number of "peace missions" in the 1920s and 1930s. In the years preceeding World War II, the WILPF vigorously opposed the Nationalist Socialist regime in Germany and the regime's anti-Semitism. Advocating freedom over peace, the WILPF survived during the war but a formal "new beginning' took place in 1946. Throughout the 1950s the League continued to seek international alternatives to violence. During the 1960s, the campaign for universal disarmament continued, as did the WILPF's advocacy of human rights and its opposition to the war in Vietnam. The 1970s and 1980s saw the League opposing racism, colonialism, apartheid, and adding a concern for the enviro.

From the description of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers, 1915-1978 (inclusive), [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122501494

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