Join June 30 Meeting to Help WILPF Advance Human Rights!

The WILPF US Advancing Human Rights (AHR) Committee is being revived. Bring your interests, ideas, and questions to our June 30 meeting.

By Joan Goddard
2020 WILPF US Program Chair

June 2021

There are so many ways to support human rights! WILPF members interested in United Nations work involving women, immigration and border militarization, mass incarceration, militarization of local police, anti-racism, and other human rights matters are invited to meet June 30. 

The AHR committee meeting, via Zoom or telephone, will be held on Wednesday, June 30 at 5 pm PT / 6 pm MT / 7 pm CT / 8 pm ET. We’ll share our interests in the many areas of concern that the Advancing Human Rights (AHR) issue committee could address. Participants at the meeting may want to set up several new subgroups and we will decide about the next meeting time for the AHR committee.

In February 2020, Philadelphia WILPF members went to Brownsville, Texas to volunteer for a week helping immigrants traveling across the border. At the meeting, concerned and/or experienced WILPFers will share information about how services are organized across the country to assist immigrants – and other ways to help. (WILPFers at the 2017 US WILPF Congress agreed to work on immigration and border militarization.)

Working with AHR, you can learn from members with long-term interest and experience with United Nations activities. These include:

• the Commission on the Status of Women 
• CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
• UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (regarding women being equally represented in negotiations to end armed conflicts) 
• the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 
• other work particularly involving women. 

You can join them in their work to educate and activate ourselves, other WILPFers, and the public around these important issues – working with branches across the country. 

Also, AHR can include a group to share ideas and plans for working nationally on racial justice by supporting national initiatives and legislation, such as the national legislation named for George Floyd, and by supplementing other current and upcoming WILPF US anti-racism efforts.

Please attend the June 30 meeting if you are interested in working with other WILPF members on human rights issues. Register here. Your confirmation email will be from Jane Addams!

If you cannot attend on June 30, send your suggestions and/or requests for further information to AHRChair@wilpfus.org.