Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Profile
Country/Territory | Switzerland |
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Website | www.wilpf.int.ch/index.htm |
Founded | 1915 |
In their own words | Brings "together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means, promoting political, economic and social justice for all." |
Funding
WILPF is funded by the Netherlands, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as by individual women and foundations.
Activities
- WIPLF enjoys ECOSOC consultative status and is a member of the NGO Working Group on the Middle East.
- WILPF is a member of the Coalition of Women for Peace(CWP), a highly politicized Israeli NGO umbrella group funded by NIF and the EU. CWP marked Israel’s Independence Day in 2007 with commemorations of the “Naqba” – the Palestinian “catastrophe.” (page 20)
- WILPF has lobbied for an NGO Forum at the Durban Review Conference, erasing the antisemitism and virulent anti-Israel rhetoric of the NGO Forum at the first Durban conference in 2001.
- In statements to the UN, WILPF promotes a very biased view of the Israel-Arab conflict, falsely accusing Israel of “relentless destruction of Palestinian infrastructure” and maintaining “more than 650 checkpoints where Palestinians are brutalized and die.”
- Click here for NGO Monitor’s report on WILPF’s statements to the UN.
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