2005 - A YEAR of COMMEMORATIONS : The French Section was well represented at ceremonies:

- 6O years ago the concentration camps were liberated and we discovered the horrors that had been committed there,
- 6O years ago atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki,
- 6O years ago the Second World War ended with this massacre,
- 60 years ago The United Nations Organisation was created,
- 60 years ago French women obtained the right to vote, among the last in Europe,
- 60 years ago the Statute-book regulating working conditions came into force. It was hardly mentioned, and everything is being done to dismantle the magnificent achievement that our parents and we ourselves had struggled so hard and so long to obtain.

* Violence against women is increasing. We have supported movements that have sprung up to eradicate this problem in our society,
* Women's rights are being eroded, especially concerning abortions and the laws concerning the family in Algeria.

* We have continued our work on nuclear disarmament, with other organisations like "Stop Essais" and "Abolition 2000". We are working with other organisations in a campaign entitled "No to Missile M51". A 4-page leaflet and demonstrations in Paris are planned for September.

* In early September 2005 the French Section took part in a Forum of organisations in the 9th district of Paris. Simone Landry distributed the WILPF Programme for 2004-2007 and Resolution 1325.
* Throughout the year we worked on issues that are important for us : support for Human Rights, women's rights, and countering physical and mental violence and all wars.
* We have signed petitions against the "Wall" in Palestine, and against the conditions of life and death for women in Iran.
* With other organisations we have signed petitions campaigning for the signing of an international treaty against the weapons trade.

At the General Assembly of the Section in 2006, Edith Ballantyne came and spoke of the structural reforms to the United Nations Charter that were being adopted .
* Gisèle Noublanche representing WILPF talked of her activities with other inhabitants and peace movements in her town of Pré St Gervais.
* Bernadette Parance continues to represent WILPF at meetings, and a Forum of organisations in the Meurthe et Moselle region. She also represented the section at a Forum at the Senate House on "Non-violence in school". It featured several talks and discussions on Non-violence in nursery schools, primary and secondary schools, and training for teachers .

* The Isère Branch. ; Geneviève Berthet came from Grenoble to talk of the activities of the group and explain to us the difficulties the Grenoble group is experiencing concerning their relations with WILPF and the French Section. She insisted on the need to send a letter to the President of the Republic and Ministers and Parliamentarians, urging them not to cut off the aid given to Palestine. This was approved unanimously and sent .

We have learnt that thanks to Anne-Marie Pavillard and Simone Landry the archives of the French Section, under the title " Fonds Gabriel DUCHENE", are safeguarded in the International Contemporary Documentation Library of the Paris X University, which is connected to the Museum of Contemporary History at the Hotel des Invalides. Gabrielle DUCHENE was President of the French section of WILPF for many years. She was very active in peace movements and in struggles in favour of all people under oppression.