International Executive Committee, Elsinor, Denmark, August 1982

EAST TIMOR AND WEST IRIAN
NUCLEAR FREE AND INDEPENDENT PACIFIC
RIGHT TO WORK FOR PEACE

EAST TIMOR AND WEST IRIAN  (IEC, Elsinor, Denmark, August 1982)

WILPF Australian section requests all WILPF sections to press their own governments to reconsider their attitude to the United Nations Resolution 36/50 of 24 November, 1981 on East Timor regularly presented to every session of the UN General Assembly, as it notes that the Governments of countries where the WILPF sections exist either vote against the Resolution or abstain from voting.
In a written submission in March 1982 to an Australian Senate Committee on Defence and Foreign-East Timor Enquiry, the WILPF Australian Section asked the Australian Government, inter alia, to:

a) Urge the Indonesian Government to grant a measure of local autonomy to the people of East Timor (at present under Indonesian military rule);
b) ask the Indonesian Government to examine the position of political prisoners from East Timor, in the light of the Amnesty International report of December, 1981.
c) urge the Indonesian Government to examine ways to  ensure that humanitarian aid, including food, reaches those most in need.

We further ask International WILPF to request that the rights of the Melanesian population of West Irian be discussed at the Human Rights Commission.

NUCLEAR FREE AND INDEPENDENT PACIFIC  (IEC, Elsinor, Denmark, August 1982)

WILPF Australian Section requests WILPF to seek from the UN a Treaty establishing the Pacific as a Nuclear Free Zone similar to the Treaty of Tlatelolco establishing Latin America as a nuclear free zone and calling on all rim countries and countries with any territorial interests in the Pacific to sign such a treaty.

Such a treaty to prohibit the use of the Pacific Ocean and islands for
i) nuclear weapons tests;
ii) dumping of nuclear waste;
iii) storage of nuclear weapons and establishing nuclear bases;
iv) harbouring and passage of nuclear powered and nuclear armed vessels and submarines.
As a first step toward such a treaty, WILPF calls for the cessation of
i) French nuclear tests on Moruroa Atoll;
ii) dumping of nuclear wastes by Japan in the Pacific;
iii) movement of nuclear-powered warships and submarines in Pacific waters;
and for the support of Belau's nuclear-free constitution and the dismantling of the stockpiles of nuclear weapons on the islands of Hawaii and all other Pacific islands.

WILPF also calls on all countries acting as administrators of islands in the Pacific, e.g. Belau and the Marshall islands under United Nations trusteeship, when requested to grant such islands their independence, and to assist with the re-establishment of dislocated communities.

PEACE EDUCATION, WORK FOR PEACE, ASPECTS OF WARFARE

RIGHT TO WORK FOR PEACE  (22nd Congress, Göteborg, Sweden, 1982)

Women of all nations are at present working for peace and freedom by non-violent means to protect themselves, their children and their families.Recently, these peace workers have been severely harassed and even put into jail.
WILPF strongly condemns these violent reactions to human beings struggling for a just and understanding cause.
WILPF Congress urges sections to protest whenever actions are taken by governments against people protesting non-violently against war, war preparations and injustice.