After more than 70 years since the first use of Nuclear Weapons in WWII, the UNGA in 2016 had adopted with overwhelming support a landmark resolution

This article written by Madeleine Reese from WILPF is a personal essay explaining how the travel ban affects women activists from around the world. She also addresses why WILPF did not participate in CSW61.

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This initiative by MADRE, Just Associates (JASS), Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Urgent Action Fund, Women in Migration Network (WIMN), and Outright Action International is a letter to the members of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), addressing the restriction on civil society participations during CSW meetings.   

This statement by WILPF describes a group of five Syrian women called Families for Freedom who went to Geneva to advocate on behalf of every Syrian family who has a detained family member. They group is calling on the Syrian regime to release the detainees and a stop to the violations of their human rights.  

This statement by WILPF calls for a gender perspective to be mainstreamed in the binding treaty in the intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. WILPF urges for proposals that can lead to a treaty that's useful for women. 

This statement by WILPF addresses the UN Human Rights Council by speaking for the organization, Families of Freedom, a group of Syrian women activists who all have relatives either disappeared or in detention. WILPF also presented a list of demands by Families of Freedom. 

This statement by WILPF addresses the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic's report on how the Syrian goverment and its supporters targeted civilian infrastructures in Aleppo. The report lacked a gender perspective and did not include gender disaggregated data.

This initiative by WILPF explains its decision to not participate in CSW61. The travel ban prevented several women in conflict-affected countries from shaping policies and encouraging meaningful participation, which happens every year during CSW.     

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