Documents and articles

We hope to create a substantial library of useful information here, relating to WILPF as well as the broader women’s and peace movements.

• WILPF member Rebecca Johnson writes about the historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017. November 2016.
• WILPF report: Women in Artisanal Mines in DRC. August 2016.
• Global Witness report: River of Gold. July 2016.
• 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.
• Britain’s boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. Rebecca Johnson. Open Democracy. 26 February 2016
• 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
• Women, Weapons and War: A gendered critique of multilateral instruments. Reaching Critical Will. November 2015
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 2242. 2015
• Trading arms, bombing towns. Ray Acheson. Reaching Critical Will. October 2015
• Faultlines, refugees and the law. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 27 September 2015
• The UN: are development and peace empty words? Ray Acheson and Rebecca Johnson. Open Democracy. 24 September 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 Human Rights Foundation. 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
• Gender Based Violence and the Arms Trade Treaty. August 2015
• A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperity. Jennifer Allsopp. Open Democracy. 28 April 2015
• WILPF Congress Report 2015
• Progress of the World’s Women 2015 – 2016: Transforming economies, Realizing Rights. UN Women. April 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
• Fascism, Refugees, Statelessness, and Rosika Schwimmer. Dagmar Wernitznig. 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
• 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
• 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
• How we can change the narrative of conflict. Madeleine Rees. Speech at Bradford University. 26 October 2014
• Sex and drone strikes: gender and identity in targeting and casualty analysis. Reaching Critical Will and Article 36. October 2014
• You Get What You Pay For. WILPF International. 18 September 2014
• WILPF and me. Martha Jean Baker. 25 August 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
• 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
• An alternative history of peacemaking: a century of disarmament efforts. Rebecca Johnson. 4 August 2014. Open Demoracy
• Speech by Manchester Councillor Margaret Ashton. Script adapted by Lydia Merrill. 4 August 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
  • Syrian Women’s Joint Statement on Engagement in the Syrian Political Process
  • 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
• International Conscientious Objectors Day. First World War Peace Forum. 15 May 2014
• None of the UN Experts Debating Killer Robots are Women. motherboard.vice.com. 14 May 2014
• The holistic approach to peacebuilding: from hubris to practicalities. Madeleine Rees. 5 May 2014. Open Democracy
• 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
• 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
• How WILPF started. Helen Kay. March 2013
• 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.
• Stories by Mary Alys, one of UK WILPF’s longest serving members
• Stanford Library’s Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Collection