Wilpf jane addams biography

Civil society organization

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profitnon-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.

WILPF has national sections in 37 countries.

The WILPF is headquartered in Geneva and maintains a United Nations office in New York City.^[1]

Organizational history

WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace;^[2] the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919.^[3][4] The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman' Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Wikipedia XOSOM