Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Archive reference: Cwl WILPF

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international non-governmental organisation with branches in over 40 countries, working for peace, disarmament and human rights. Its secretariat is based in Geneva. It originated at an international congress in The Hague in 1915, during World War I, which brought over 1000 women from belligerent and neutral nations together to work for peace by non-violent means.

These records, part of the Commonweal Archives, derive mainly from the British Section of WILPF, and include correspondence from the 1940s and 1950s on events and congresses, atomic power, the hydrogen bomb, the Women's Peace Movement and United Europe. Later material includes the International Year of Peace 1986, circulars and other material from the secretariat, publications of US WILPF relating to Vietnam and the draft in particular, and correspondence with the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace (ICDP).