WILPF aims to bring together women of different political, philosophical convictions united in their determination to study and make known and help abolish the causes and the concept of war. WILPF works towards world peace, total and universal disarmament, the abolition of violence and coercion in the settlement of conflicts and the substitution in each case of negotiation and conciliation. It also seeks to strengthen the United Nations and its family of Specialised Agencies, and the institutions of international law. WILPF strives for political and social equality, economic equity, cooperation among all people and for sustainable development and environmental protection.

WILPF is conscious that under systems of exploitation and oppression, these aims cannot be attained, and that a real and lasting peace and true freedom cannot exist. WILPF aims to facilitate by non-violent means the social transformation to permit the inauguration of systems under which social and political equality and economic equity are attained without discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, or on any other grounds.