We hope to create a substantial library of useful information here, relating to WILPF as well as the broader women’s and peace movements.
Disarmament
- Letter to the UK government: human dignity, responsibility and common ground on human control. 20 November 2020.
- United Kingdom Expert paper: The human role in autonomous warfare (CCW/GGE.1/2020/WP.6). 18 November 2020.
- The TPWN reaches 50 Ratifications. ICAN. 24 October 2020.
- Autonomous Weapons and Patriarchy. Ray Acheson. 2020.
- Autonomous Weapons and Gender-Based Violence. Ray Acheson. 2020.
- Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression. Ray Acheson. 2 February 2018.
- WILPF member Rebecca Johnson writes about the historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017. Rebecca Johnson. November 2016.
- WILPF report: Women in Artisanal Mines in DRC. Press Release. August 2016.
- Britain’s boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. Rebecca Johnson, Open Democracy. 26 February 2016.
- Women, Weapons and War: A gendered critique of multilateral instruments. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. November 2015.
- Trading arms, bombing towns. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. October 2015.
- Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade Treaty. Ray Acheson and Mia Gandenberger. August 2015
- Assuring Destruction: 2015 edition. Status of the United Kingdom’s nuclear forces. John Ainslie and Reaching Critical Will. April 2015.
- What it takes for peace – An interview with Edith Ballantyne. Green Agenda. February 2015.
- Filling The Gap – Report on the Third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Reaching Critical Will. December 2014.
- A Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons – Developing a legal framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. Joint paper. Reaching Critical Will and Article 36. December 2014.
- Banning Nuclear Weapons: an effective measure for disarmament. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. November 2014.
- Banning Nuclear Weapons: an effective measure for disarmament. WILPF International: Reaching Critical Will. October 2014.
- You Get What You Pay For. WILPF International. 18 September 2014
- An alternative history of peacemaking: a century of disarmament efforts. Rebecca Johnson. 4 August 2014. Open Democracy
- None of the UN Experts Debating Killer Robots are Women. motherboard.vice.com. 14 May 2014
Women, Peace and Security
- WILPF Colombia has written an article on Abortion Rights as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival. Monica Montañez Martínez, WILPF Colombia. 2018.
- Violations against women in Syria and the disproportionate impact of the conflict on them. June 2016
- Dangerous Women project. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Feature on Chrystal Macmillan by Helen Kay, Scottish Branch, UK WILPF.
- Shadow Report Assessing UK Government action on Women, Peace and Security. Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS). 2015
- A study of women’s peace activism in Syria. The Badael Foundation. December 2015
- A Call to Action on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 and Related Resolutions. Commissioned by the Human Rights Foundation. September 2015
- Masculine violence: call of duty, or call for change? Cynthia Cockburn. 27 November 2014. Open Democracy
- Women peacebuilders: transforming the system from the inside out? Catia Confortini. Open Democracy. 20 November 2014
- Women and Armed Conflict – 20 years after Beijing. WILPF International. 14 November 2014
- Gaza: It is happening again… Where are the women? Madeleine Rees. 15 August 2014
- Political economy, security, and the summit to end sexual violence in conflict. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 14 July 2014
- We have gender mainstreamed so well we can’t even see it anymore. Madeleine Rees. OSCE interview. 2014
- Political economy, security, and the summit to end sexual violence in conflict. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 14 July 2014
- Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. 10-13 June 2014.
- Chair’s summary
- International Protocol on the documentation and investigation of sexual violence in conflict
- Seeking Accountability and Demanding Change: a report on women’s human rights violations in Syria before and during the conflict. Madre. July 2014
- Foreign Office blog
- Article by Lorraine Mirham, UK WILPF’s International Board Member and International Vice President. June 2014
- Sexual violence, access to justice, and human rights. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 9 June 2014
- Report from Sarajevo Peace Event. Helen Kay. 6-9 June 2014
- The Heart of the Matter: the Security of Women and the Security of States. International Security, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Winter 2008/09), pp. 7–45.
Environment
- Women, War and Climate Change. Claire Duncanson and Carol Cohn.
- Women, War and Climate Crisis. Claire Duncanson, Yasmin Luqman and Niamh McNulty speaking at the Scottish WILPF event as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival 2020. 14 October 2020.
- Extinction Rebellion leaflets and posters can be found here.
- Global Witness report: River of Gold. July 2016.
General
- Million Women Rise and the UK End VAW Coalition. London Vigil. 25 November 2020.
- COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. UNDP and UN Women.
- A collection of comprehensive resources on Feminist Responses to COVID-19 from the Gender & Development Network (GADN)
- UN System Analysis during COVID-19. WILPF International. 2020.
- The UN: are development and peace empty words? Ray Acheson and Rebecca Johnson. Open Democracy. 24 September 2015
- Faultlines, refugees and the law. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 27 September 2015
- Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting change. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 28 August 2015
- The World Must Act to Stop Syria’s Suffering. Laila Alodaat, Crisis response programme manager, WILPF and others. Guardian, 20 August
- A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperity. Jennifer Allsopp. Open Democracy. 28 April 2015
- Progress of the World’s Women 2015 – 2016: Transforming economies, Realizing Rights. UN Women. April 2015
- Fascism, Refugees, Statelessness, and Rosika Schwimmer. Dagmar Wernitznig. 2014
- How we can change the narrative of conflict. Madeleine Rees. Speech at Bradford University. 26 October 2014
- Guerilla woolfare: against the madness of mutually assured destruction. Rebecca Johnson and Jaine Rose. 8 August 2014. Open Democracy
- Raise your knitting high (protest song)
- Executed: what were the principles for which Edith Cavell lived and died. Cynthia Cockburn. 4 August 2014
- Speech by Manchester Councillor Margaret Ashton. Script adapted by Lydia Merrill. 4 August 2014
- The holistic approach to peacebuilding: from hubris to practicalities. Madeleine Rees. 5 May 2014. Open Democracy
- Opposing World War One: Courage and Conscience. An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. Published in partnership in 2013
WILPF Archives
- WILPF Theory of Change
- WILPF Congress Report 2015
- WILPF and me. Martha Jean Baker. 25 August 2014
- Isabella Ford and WIL during WWI. Professor June Hannam. May 2014
- Women’s power to stop war: hubris or hope? Cynthia Cockburn. 28 April 2014. Open Democracy
- How WILPF started. Helen Kay. March 2013
- Stories by Mary Alys, one of UK WILPF’s longest-serving members
- Stanford Library’s Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Collection