WILPF sections around the world have taken action to stop the militarization of the seas. WILPF Canada has protested the Royal Canadian Navy’s participation in RIMPAC and called for its cancellation. We produced and shared on social media a graphic “Cancel RIMPAC. Stop Military Sonar and Bombing” and lobbied the federal government. WILPF Australia has called on Canberra to withdraw from AUKUS. WILPF Australia and New Zealand are also demanding that Exercise Talisman Sabre, a multi-domain naval firepower exercise, is cancelled this summer. WILPF Italy is pushing for “peace and cooper- ation” to be included in the text of the new Convention on the Rights of the Mediterranean Sea.
Read Tamara’s latest article, “Peace in the Seas: A Call for the Demilitarization and Protection of the Oceans.”
