 The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has been concerned with the question of Palestine since the early twenties and has worked toward a peaceful and just solution of the Arab/Israeli conflict since it began.
WILPF will continue its efforts to help achieve peace in the Middle East. Too many lives are being lost due to the illegal occupation of Iraq and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in blatant violation of United Nations resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention. There is too much destruction of land and homes and families; too many children are being deprived of a future in their homeland, and too many resources are going to the military at the expense of economic and social development and co-operation among all people there.
The resulting instability and fear affects not only the people in the Middle East but people around the world. No other conflict has the potential to ignite a worldwide conflagration as has the conflict between Israel and the Arab world. The world community has a stake in finding a speedy resolution. The United Nations must at last assume responsibility for achieving a just peace between Israel and Palestine based on its own resolutions.
November 2009 - WILPF letter to the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt
September 2009 - Find out more about WILPF and the BDS movement
January 2009- Call to Action! en francais
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