On the morning of September 2, 2025, a small speedboat skims across open water somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Suddenly, in a flash of white, it’s destroyed in a U.S.-launched airstrike. All 11 people...

The UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security will begin on 8 October 2025. Over the past year, genocides and armed conflicts have intensified, some countries have ...

In recent months, the United Nations (UN) published two reports highlighting the impacts of military spending on peace and development. The UN Secretary-General (UNSG)’s report The Security We Need: R...

On 16 September 2025, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded “that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have the genocida...

The high-level debate of the UN General Assembly, which will begin on 23 September 2025, marks 80 years since the founding of the United Nations. Its original members were determined […]

On 16 July 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon on the lands of the Tularosa Basin in New Mexico. The bomb, nicknamed “Gadget,” was made of plutonium. […]

In response to the United States (US) bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities and the tentative ceasefire reached between Israel and Iran, WILPF reiterates its calls to prevent any further unlawful [...

WILPF has opposed war and the development of technologies of violence since our founding in 1915. We have consistently condemned military spending and militarism as a detriment to human life […]