International Peace Update articles from July 2003

International Peace Update archives from July 2003

Focussing on freedom.
July 1, 2003... The current issue is devoted to concepts of freedom within WILPF as related to the global situation. How did this word freedom, full of significance and different meanings make its way into the title of WILPF in 1915? What were the pressing...

In search of freedom.(... and Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom history)
July 1, 2003... I am always happy to be given an excuse to dig up information about WILPF's beginning and its work over the years. It is a fascinating story of courageous women who took it upon themselves to change the men's world of war. So, when Krishna and...

WILPF/Aotearoa (New Zealand) collective contribution.(Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Aotearoa/New Zealand is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean for thousands of kilometers. But does distance from other lands and peoples make us free? No? We look inward to the political and economic structures of our colonizing ancestors and face a...

WILPF/El Salvador.(Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom, free... dom. Not king... dom, but free... dom. kin... dom. To be able to be. That is freedom from want and need, as persons, as peoples: because there is community, rather than empire, caring more than profits... human,...

WILPF/India (Core Group).(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom is a state of mind which is not difficult to achieve if there is a "WILL." The exercise of freedom may not always lead to "PEACE" if one thinks only of individual's freedom, one has to think about a Free World if we wish to have PEACE....

The year 1947 was a landmark in the history of our nation; India won its freedom.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The year 1947 was a landmark in the history of our nation; India won its freedom. It has been 50 years since then but do we actually think that a country's freedom means only breaking away from a foreign rule? Can we claim any country, caught...

WILPF/Norway.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... For me freedom is defined by the nature of the things we choose not to do as well as by the things we feel compelled to do--given our abilities. Our abilities in turn are given both by what we are capable of doing physically and...

WILPF/United Kingdom.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom to live without fear. Freedom to live and to be able to make choices about my life. Freedom to be able to exercise these choices within a peaceful and democratic world society that puts economic justice and human rights at the top of...

WILPF/USA.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom is 'community' and individual self-government and self-determination. It requires the spiritual and material resources necessary to implement the choices we make. Freedom includes making mistakes and learning from our mistakes. It is...

WILPF Covnenor/International Leadership Development Committee.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The freedom desired by a Committee Convenor in WILPF is exactly what is demanded of all political entities: access to full and timely information, transparency in decision making including open officers' meetings, and a non-chilling atmosphere...

WILPF/working group on racism.(Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom means the opportunity to live without the domination and cultural imperialism of the powerful. Freedom means to live in harmony with our neighbours. It means to be able to share and exchange resources without recourse to war and...

WILPF International Treasurer.(Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom celebration in Netherlands)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... On the 27th of April the Dutch section celebrated WILPF's birthday with a great party in the International Information Archives for Women (IIAV) in Amsterdam. The celebration coincided with the opening of an exhibition on the life of Rosa...

WILPF US campaign to challenge corporate power.(Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... "Assert the People's Rights" defines freedom within the context of a community, a society that provides for human and civil rights-beginning with equal access to resources adequate for meeting basic human needs. Each person's freedom is...

WILPF representative to EWL.(Freedom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Freedom is about rights. I see freedom as a state of being that allows me to take my own decisions, read what I like, go where I please, think what I think, believe what I choose, say what I believe or wish to say, do with my body what I wish...

The peace process in Sri Lanka.(Sri Lanka)
July 1, 2003... For more than two decades there was an ongoing war in my country. It has drained the energy and well being of all most all its citizens: mentally, physically, financially and psychologically. According to the statistics more than 60,000 lives...

Peace and freedom.(Northern Ireland)
July 1, 2003... On 5 January 1969 the words "You Are Now Entering Free Derry" were painted on the gable wall of a terraced house in the Bogside, Derry. Then just an individual's act of defiance, the slogan and the wall have now become an internationally...

Civil Wars: greed not grief.(War and Greed)
July 1, 2003... The World Bank (WB) has recently published a report on Civil Wars: "Breaking the Conflict Trap. Civil War and Development Policy" by Paul Collier and others. The report examines all the world's civil wars since 1960 and is well worth reading,...

Book review of The Space between Us by Cynthia Cockburn.(The Space between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Space between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict, Cynthia Cockburn, (London: Zed Books, 1998, 247pp.) "Maybe if women would only gain the determination to represent publicly what they have also stood for...

Who rules the world? Project imperialism.(Imperialism)
July 1, 2003... The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 has irreversibly redrawn the economic and political map of the world. The latest resolution of the security council adopted on 22 May post facto legitimises the occupation of the sovereign territory of Iraq....

WILPF statement on debt cancellation.(G8)
July 1, 2003... Since its foundation in 1915, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has striven for a world in which there is peace and justice for all. Under the present system by which poor countries are burdened by debt servicing, the poor...

UN HCHR: west and the rest?(United Nations High Commission on Human Rights)
July 1, 2003... During this year's session of the UN High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva the war raged in Iraq. The Commission did not succeed in setting aside time to discuss and pass a resolution on the situation. "Western" States, undisturbed by the...

Elite-driven activism and the Middle Powers Initiative.(Middle Powers Initiative)
July 1, 2003... Despite the rhetoric of democracy that many countries purport to have, there still remains an oligarchic group of people that make the decisions that affect us all. Civil society must struggle in every way we can to make our voice heard to this...

The NPT under siege: extract from an NGO statement to the Preparatory Committee of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Geneva, Switzerland, April 28-May 9, 2003.(NPT PrepCom)(Rhianna Tyson address)(Transcript)
July 1, 2003... Mr. Chairman, distinguished delegates, and NGO colleagues, This 2003 Preparatory Committee convenes at a harrowing moment in history. Disarmament has been used as a pretext to go to war, resulting in the overthrow of the regime in Iraq. The...

NPT: gender and disarmament.(NPT PrepCom)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom panel)
July 1, 2003... The NPT Prepcom opened in Geneva on April 28, 2003 with the usual ritual. States Parties gave their speeches in the so-called "general debate", on little that wasn't already known. The highlight of the day though, was the lunchtime panel on...

WILPF celebrates its 88th birthday.(WILPF Birthday)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
July 1, 2003... On 29 April 2003, WILPF celebrated its 88th birthday in its headquarters in Geneva. The event took place in the hall outside the International Secretariat where an informal party was organized with all the WILPF team working together. Let us...

First International Peace Woman award.(Peace Woman Award awarded to Edith Ballantyne)
July 1, 2003... It was a gala event. Music filled the air as more than 125 distinguished guests attended the 88th Anniversary reception for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Held in the foyer outside WILPF's Geneva office, Mayors,...

Jane Addams Book Award winners.(2003 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards)
July 1, 2003... Winners of the 2003 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards were announced on April 28 by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Organized on that date in 1915, much of the educational work of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is...

NGO Shadow Report on Nuclear Disarmament.(WILPF Shadow Report)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
July 1, 2003... The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Reaching Critical Will project published in April 2003 an NGO Shadow Report on Nuclear Disarmament. This report is offered as a model for State Parties to fulfill the reporting requirement...

WILPF international website updated!(WILPF Shadow Report)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... In 1915, hundreds of women came together to stop a war and to build peace. For 88 years the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has been advocating the core principles of peace, freedom and justice. The world has...

Sweden welcomes WILPFs Congress in 2004.(WILPF News)
July 1, 2003... When? August 2-8, 2004 Where? 20 km north of Goteborg, Sweden How much? Basic costs, not more than 430 Euro or $490 (May 2003) per person in two-bed room (single rooms are also available) including three nice meals a...

An extended officers meeting in Paris (15-19 August 2003).(WILPF News)
July 1, 2003... Extended officers meeting will take in Paris, 15-19 August 2003. This event shall be hosted by the French section of WILPF. The meeting will deliberate on the issues arising out of the WILPF International programme, the vision for the...

Linda Zehetbauer.(WILPF News)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Dear WILPF sisters, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Linda Zehetbauer. I am from the German WILPF section--a member of the Berlin group but also have very strong relations with the Munich WILPF women, and I am going to work as an...

Gujarat genocide: a peace plan.(Peace Plan)("Women, Non-violence and Peace" workship held at Peace Research Centre at Gujarat vidyapith, Ahmedabad India)
July 1, 2003... Under the auspices of the UN Security council Resolution 1325 adopted by consensus in New York in April 2001, a workshop under the title "Women, Non-violence and Peace" was held at the Peace Research Centre at Gujarat vidyapith, Ahmedabad...

WILPF core group starts in Nagpur (India).(India News)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
July 1, 2003... WILPF India core group was established on 7 January 2001, at Nagpur in the presence of Gandhi peace award winner Edith Ballantyne, and current WILPF International President, Krishna Ahooja Patel. Since then members have been working at local...

Welcome Mans as new WILPF treasurer.(WILPF News)(Mans van Zandbergen; )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... WILPF is delighted to announce the selection of Mans van Zandbergen as our new Treasurer ad interim after the resignation of our previous treasurer. Mans is from The Netherlands and is recently retired from a professional career as a...