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1915

The Hague Congress: women demand an end to the war.

1919

The Zurich Congress: WILPF denounces the Verailles Treaty as crating the conditions for a future war.

1922

Conference for a New Peace held at The Hague, calls for the convening of a World Congress to draw up a new agreement for a genuine peace.

1924

Campaign to mobilise scientists to refuse to engage in research for war purposes.

1925

WILPF presses its demand for total and universal disarmament.

1926

WILPF mission to Haiti to investigate the effects of occupation by the US Marines.

1927

Mission to Indochina and China to establish and strengthen links with women.

1931

Jan Addams, WILPF's International President, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1932

WILPF collects six million signatures to a World Disamament Petition delivered to a World Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

1940- 1945

WILPF aids victims of fascism In 1945 WILPF attends the first UN Conference at San Francisco with the message of a new concept of security not based on military power and prestige.

1946

Emily Greene Balch, WILPF's first International Secretary, receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

1958

WILPF sends missions to the Middle East.

1961

First WILPF conference of Soviet and American women to help brteak down cold war barriers.

1963

WILPF partakes in the peace campaign to urge the US to end the war in Vietnam.

1967

WILPF mission to the Middle East.

1969

Conference in London on chemical and biological warfare.

1970

Inter-American Women's Conference in Bogota, Colombia.

1971

Mission to North and South Vietnam.

1973

Mission to Chile to investigate the situation there.

1974

Mission to Northern Ireland to investigate the situation there.

1975

Convenes 'Women's Disarmament Conference' at the UN in New York.

1981

WILPF initiates its International Internship Program for Young Women.

1982

WILPF launces a signature campaign to Stop The Arms Race (STAR).

1983

Mass rally on 8 March in Brussels demanding that NATO cancel the decision to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe.

1984

WILPF relaunches worldwide campaign for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treatyu.

1985

WILPF participates in the UN 'Women's Decade Conference' in Nairobi, Kenya; and initiates the Nairobi Peace Tent.

1991

WILPF campaigns to prevent and halt the Gulf War.

1992

WILPF's 25th International Congress, Bolivia.

1994

WILPF sends mission to monitor the elections in South Africa.

1996?

1999

Actions to support women affected by war in the Balkan states Japan Consultation - Women Meeting the Challenges of Globalisation in Pursuing Alternative Development Strategies for peace in the Asia Pacific Region

For more detailed accounts of WILPF's history, see WILPF International publications, and comprehensive Microfiche versions of The Women's International League For Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978 are available from UMI Research Collections.

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