Section President: vacant. May be we will have a new president after 3-06-2007. |
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Section IEC Member: Han Deggeller |
Address: A.Schweitzerlaan 52b |
City, State/Province: Den Haag |
Postal Code: NL2552 PK |
Telephone: 070 3974682 |
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Email Address:handeggeller@live.nl |
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(Per the decision at the IEC 2006 each Section is to appoint a fundraising contact person)
vacant |
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2008 International Directory:
Please review your copy of the International Directory and provide all additional contacts and/or information that you would like to be listed in the 2008 International Directory. For example: Section Office, Section Treasurer, Secretary, Branch Contacts, etc.
Vice President : Carolien van der Stadt
Platanenlaan 85
NL2061 TS Bloemendaal
023-6222243
cvdstadt@worldonline .nl
Alternate IEC member: Ingestemmler
Drift 7
NL1251 CA Laren
O35 5388078
Secretary: Anjo Kerkhofs
Ijpenbroekweg 10
6545 BM Nijmegen
024-3789786
anjo.kerkhof@capgemini.com
Workplacesecretary: Lies Jansen
St Andriesstraat 20
NL3811 HT Amersfoort
033-4729303
A VN contact person is there no longer. |
Section Information:
Number of members: 97 (Fill in the blank or amend)
Section website: www.wilpf.nl
Section 2006 Income: 4000 contribution members Expense:13.000
Gifts and funds 7000
Committee or Working Group that your IEC Member participates in: GEJ |
What does your Section need from the 2007 Congress and what are the specific decisions that you would like to see this Congress make to further your work? Please place an X beside those that apply.
_x__ Development of 3-year Programme
___ Development of Committee or Working Group. Please specify.
___ Adoption of Policy. Please specify.
___ Adoption of Resolution. Please specify.
___ Adoption of Constitutional Amendment Please specify.
___ Specific Proposal from your Section. Please specify.
___ Other. Please list below:
adoption of funding proposal women for decent jobs, as specified by the working group GEJ |
Geneva Office |
We would like some feedback on the section mailing. Do you like the frequency and length? What topics would you like to see covered? It’ sOK
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What information from the Geneva Office would be helpful to you?
Information about the behaviour of Dutch ambassadors in UN in Geneva . We would like to be informed when it is necessary to lobby our government on specific issues.
Information about World en European social fora. |
What do you see as priority issues for the work of the Geneva Office?
- Keep the organization going,
- represent WLPF at UN and NGO community
- represent WILPF to the public
- support the interns.
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How could we improve communication between us (E-Mail, Conference Calls, Section Visits)?
Section visit can be useful. Needs planning. Should be used to get attention from others than WILPF members.
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UN Office (New York) |
What information from the UN Office would be helpful to you?
Information about the behaviour of Dutch ambassadors in UN in Geneva and New York. We want to be informed when it is necessary to lobby our government on specific issues. |
What do you see as priority issues for the work of the UN Office?
Disarmament, conflict prevention, peacekeeping missions, (information as Dutch military are involved, see above), 1325, global economic justice. |
How could we improve communication between us (E-Mail, Conference Calls, Section Visits)? |
Do you use the Reaching Critical Will website? |
Yes |
No |
If so for what? What is the most useful? What would make the site more useful for you?
We work together in a Dutch coalition against nucleair arms. They use the information provided.
We are proud of the active way of working by the UN office. |
Do you read the RCW E-news reports on CD, UN GA 1st Committee, NPT? |
What could be improved? Maybe the same: information about the position taken by our government.
Sometimes there is. |
Does the work of your section relate to the United Nations? |
Yes |
No |
There is now a very active organization NVVN. They reach the youth with a big manifestation on 24e of October each year and the election of a youth representative to the UN. They organize also a course each year. This organization was an intiative of peace oergainationsincluding WILPF and Women for Peace. Much of our members participate in the NVVN. |
Does your section work on WILPF’s International Program? |
Yes |
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What is your main focus?
We are focused on matters of defence, foreign policy, (nucleair and conventional) weapens, development and trade policies, the occupation of Palestine. New : the consequences of the terrorism and anti terrorism on Human Rights.
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Global Economic Justice? |
Yes |
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Letter to government about EPA’s |
Environmental Sustainability? |
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No |
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Disarmament and Demilitarization |
Yes |
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Remembering Hiroshima and Ngasaki with Women for Peace. Supporting and assisting the action ‘Mayors for Peace’ . Joining the action against small arms and clusterboms. |
Water? |
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No |
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SCR 1325/Women and Peace and Security Issues? |
Yes |
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The Dutch Section is participating in the Dutch Platform ’Women and Sustainable Peace’ an initiative of nine women’s peace organizations. At this moment a priority is to make an analyses of already existing national action plans, like from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. This with the objective to have a constructive input in the second part of the year, when the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs will organize a meeting with NGO’s to have their input and comments on the draft Dutch national action plan on SCR 1325.
Th e Platform ‘Women and sustainable Peace has produced in September 2006 a brochure in Dutch on SCR 1325 to male in known. The past period the platform has been working on a funding proposal ‘WCA 1325:Women Creating Alternatives to armed conflict’ with the objective to organize a conference around March 8, 2008
WILPF Netherlands is also participating in the Dutch coalition of People Building Peace. One of the items is that SCR 1325 has not to be only a women’s matter but an important concern of the Dutch peace movement, women and men.
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Women’s political participation? |
Yes |
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We write each year a comment on the plans of the government in the area of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
For the elections we write a brochure ‘Politics of peace’ with recommendations for all political parties. We made also a comparison of all the programmes of political parties on conflictprevention, disarmament, European Union and UN.
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Sexual and Gender based violence issues? |
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What is the political situation in your country?
We had elections and we have now a centrum left government. Christen Democrats and the labour party form a government with support of a third Christian party.
One important change is that this government will be less severe on admitting refugees. We hope that a lot of illegal immigrants who are longer than 6 years in our country will be admitted.
We hope also that what is leftover of the social security state will be saved, although a lot of privatization of f.i. post, public transport and energy is still in the process of privatization.
There is on the issue of immigrants a polarization of the debate in the political area and also in public and in the neighborhoods.
The faithful Islamite have to pay for it.
We take part in the NATO led war in Afghanistan with the motivation of fighting the war on terrorism, and our army is supposed to help the people in Urguzan to rebuild their country, but helas we first have to make the place saver for the inhabitants so we have to fight the people who oppose against this intervention.
Our parliament supports this mission and the reasons behind it.
It’s not a time to be proud of our countrie.
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