International Peace Update articles from June 2004

International Peace Update archives from June 2004

Greetings from the president.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Regina Birchem)
June 22, 2004... Women of many cultures and languages came together on the rocky coast of northern Sweden for the 28th. International Congress from countries as diverse as Nepal, Rapa in French Polynesia, Sierra Leone, Germany, India, Japan, Bolivia, Palestine...

Congress lights.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom )(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... The WILPF Congress recently concluded in Kungalv (Sweden) took place in one of the most prestigious "people's highschools" at a resort called Kungalv. The main aim of this type of free school in Scandanaivia is to encourage creativity in...

FAME 2005 with Ricardo Petrella.(WATER, WOMEN AND PEACE)(World Water Alternative Forum)(Interview)
June 22, 2004... The 2nd World Water Alternative Forum will be held on the 18th and 19th March 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Forum's key objective is to further develop and promote institutions and public policy that will finally provide access to drinking...

Ten challenges: Morogoro (Tanzania).(WATER, WOMEN AND PEACE)
June 22, 2004... Challenge 1: Existence of water Many areas of Africa will be extremely dry some during the whole year--others during parts of the year. However, others will be green and fertile most of the year like Morogoro. Challenge 2: Pollution of...

Policy decisions, recommendations and resolutions adopted in Kungalv, Sweden.(WATER, WOMEN AND PEACE)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Congress resolutions)
June 22, 2004... The Congress, the post-Congress International Executive Committee and the joint Officers meeting have adopted the decisions below. They are linked to the International Program Priorities, future actions, concerns and national issues. Here is a...

Water as a source of international conflicts an experience from South Asia.(WATER, WOMEN AND PEACE)
June 22, 2004... South Asia is a region with the largest amount of untouched freshwater resources. These resources flow from the shared Himalayas in China, Nepal, Bhutan, India and Pakistan. As a result, the continent has many transboundary rivers among these...

8 mars 2004 au Burundi: un appel de la Case pour le Progres Social.(INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY)(house for social Progress of Uvira's celebrations)
June 22, 2004... The house for social Progress of Uvira has celebrated the International Women's day by a march in Uvira's city and a declaration sent to local authorities. Insecurity was their major concern, as well as the civil re-integration of young women...

United Nations Geneva and WILPF concerns.(INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Security Council reform)
June 22, 2004... UN Reform Reform has been on the UN agenda for a long time. Reform is seen primarily in terms of structural changes, often requiring amending the Charter. The pressure to enlarge the Security Council, including the number of permanent...

Water, women and peace: issues.(INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT)
June 22, 2004... THE MAIN THEME OF THE CONGRESS WAS WATER, WOMEN AND PEACE. IN THIS CONNECTION, THE PARTICIPANTS EMPHASIZED THE FOLLOWING ISSUES: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. Right to Water The right to water is a fundamental human right, not yet...

WILPF International New Team.(WILPF NEWS)(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... WILPF is pleased to present the New International Team elected by the 28th Congress held in Kungalv, on 8th August 2004 for the period 2004-2007. Congratulations! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From left to right: Mans VAN ZANDBERGEN...

The Gertrud Baer's seminar in Kungalv--August 2004.(WILPF NEWS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The GB Seminar is a seminar for young women wishing to share their personal experiences within WILPF. Taeko Okada (Disarmement Intern) and myself have been invited to attend it, as part of our WILPF Internship at the International...

India.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's symposium marks its third annual day)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... THE 28TH WILPF CONGRESS HAS CELEBRATED THE CREATION OF THE INDIAN SECTION AND THE RE-BIRTH OF THE SWISS SECTION. HEREUNDER ARE NEWS ABOUT THEIR ACTIVITIES: On 11st January 2004, the WILPF India Core Group, Nagpur, celebrated its third...

Switzerland.(history of Swiss Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom )(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... In reality, the Swiss Section was born in 1915 and its first President, Clara Ragaz, acted as Swiss President from 1915 to 1946, but also was the International President of WILPF during the Second World War. The highest point of the membership...

Africa.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to expand its sections)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The post-congress IEC decided to encourage the development of WILPF sections in Africa. This decision was taken, thanks to the active and positive interventions of African and Afroamerican members participating in the Congress, who underlined...

?Se puede erradicar la violencia en 25 anos? Is it possible to eradicate violence in 25 years?(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom news)
June 22, 2004... We are all concerned about violence domestic violence street violence, violence against children, violence in the media, the violence of wars against nations and the violent suppression of dissidents within a country. There is also...

The international court of justice's Advisory Opinion of 9th July 2004.(international law and Israeli-Palestinian boarder conflicts)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime, are contrary to international law; Israel is under an...

A people behind walls.(WILPF NEWS)(Palestinian villagers at boarder areas)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The road carves out its path like a long silver snake, slithering through virgin mountainsides, turning olive groves into concrete slabs. It's guarded by 1 armed border police squatting on rocky outposts, positioned every 25 meters along the...

Women defending peace.(WILPF NEWS)(Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement and Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs' meeting with peace activists)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, headed by Ms Micheline Calmy-Rey, have invited a group of women and men dedicated to peace to meet in Geneva from 22 to 24 November...

UN expert reports on violence against Palestinian women.(WILPF NEWS)(Yakin Erturk)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The Israeli occupation is a primal cause of violence against women in the Palestinian territories, UN special rapporteur on violence against women's Yakin Erturk said recently. In a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories June 13-18,...

Women's health issues; Marshall Islands: nuclear fallout.(radioactive dust resulted from atomic bomb testing by United States left the island women prone to health problems)
June 22, 2004... Health concerns have been an ongoing battle between the United States and the Marshall Islands. On March 1, 1954 the US exploded an atomic bomb, code named Bravo, which dropped its irradiated nuclear fallout on populated islands of the northern...

Third European Social Forum.(EVENTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... It will take place from 15-17 October-04 in London. The European Social Forum was launched from the World Social Forum meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The ESF is a unique opportunity where social movements, trade unions, NGOs, refugees,...

World Peace Forum 2006 Vancouver, Canada.(EVENTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Vancouver City Council formally endorsed the idea that a World Peace Forum be held in Vancouver in June 2006. City council will be sponsoring a preparatory meeting on November 26/27 in Vancouver. What will the World Peace Forum look...

Forum Barcelona towards a world without violence.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... This international congress (23-27th June 04) was part of the Barcelona Forum 2004. The forum is a platform to contribute to the renewal of ideas based on three core themes Cultural Diversity as the desire to promote dialogue among peoples,...

WILPF.(aims of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... The aims and principles of WILPF are to bring together women of different political and philosophical convictions united in their determination to study, make known and help abolish the causes and the concept of war: to work toward world peace...

Eleonore Romberg.(Obituary)
June 22, 2004... A deep shadow descended over the festive opening of WILPF's 28th International Congress on the sunny morning of 2 August 2004, at Kungalv, Sweden, when a call from Munich informed us that Eleonore Romberg, had died in the night. ...