Books and Film Recommendations – Spring 2025

WILPF Canada members share these BOOK recommendations: Feminism Against ProgressMary HarringtonSwift Press, 2023 In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women’s liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the […]

Welcome Letter to PM-elect

WILPF Canada has added our name to Climate Action Network Canada’s welcome letter to newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney: April 29th, 2025 Le français suit Dear Prime Minister Carney, On behalf of Climate Action Network Canada, I congratulate you on your election as MP for Nepean and Prime Minister of Canada. As you said many […]

110 Years of WILPF: Then and Now

WILPF turns 110!

On 28 April 2025, WILPF turns 110. As the world’s oldest feminist peace organization, our strenght lies in our global, diverse, membership—and in a century-long commitment to feminist peace through struggle, resistance and change. This is a moment to reflect on what we’ve built, and why our work matters more than ever. WILPF exsists because […]

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The Ecocide of Palestine – WILPF International

Source: https://www.wilpf.org/the-ecocide-of-palestine/ The genocide in Palestine has become normalised. Yet, while we are watching people die, the bombs that are exploding and the destruction of infrastructure, farmland and water also constitute the ecocide of this ancient land. This blog highlights why the devastation of the environment is an important aspect of the genocidal violence being imposed by […]

Centennial Congress in The Hague, Netherlands

Photographs by Jo Rekart In April 2015, five members from the Vancouver and Nanaimo branches represented Canada at the Centennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in The Hague, Netherlands. This organization is the oldest international women’s peace organization in the world having come into being in 1915 when over […]