Women’s Global Peace

Movement

Janis Alton, Co-Chair

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
www.vowpeace.org
May 20, 2008 PROBUS 1
 Bertha von Suttner

First Women
Nobel Peace
Laureate
1905

An Austrian
foremother’.

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 2

 Early Feminism in Canada

 Social Problems Response.

–Children sleeping in the streets
–Working children
–Drinking men

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 3

 YWCA Women

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 4

 Poverty - Homelessness

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 5

 Collecting Coal

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 6

 Women Respond to WW1

1915 - 12,000
Women meet at
the Hague.
1915 - Julia Grace
Wales advocates
continuous
mediation.

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 7

 WILPF - 1919

 Women’s International League for

Peace and Freedom.

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 8

 Inter-war Years 1919 -1939

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 9

 Atomic Age 1945 - 1960

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 10

 Unparalleled Catastrophe

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 11

 Human Costs

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 12

 The Cold War Begins

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 13

 Second Wave 1960 - 1995

VOICE OF WOMEN: Launched 1960

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 14
 Early UN Involvement

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 15

Knitting Project-Another Strategy
 Baby garments
knitted in
camouflage
colours and sent
to Vietnam.

 This went on for

many years.
May 20, 2008 PROBUS 16
 Nancy Pocock - Canada

 Dispelling the
dynamic of the
“Other”

 Vietnam

 Central America
May 20, 2008 PROBUS 17
 Humour as a Peace Strategy

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 18

 Lobbying Governments
1975 -1995

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 19

 4 UN World Conferences

 Triple Themes
– Equality
– Development
– Peace

 First Official UN Linkage of Women

and Peace.
May 20, 2008 PROBUS 20
 Nairobi, Kenya. 1985

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 21

 United Nations on Women

 1979 CEDAW – Convention on the

Elimination of all forms of Violence
against Women.

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 22

 VOW at Indian Mission 1988

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 23

 VOW at Soviet Union Mission

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 24

 VOW at Mexico Mission 1988

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 25

UN Special Session on Disarmament.

 VOW makes oral presentation

requesting women’s full participation in
peace processes at all levels.

– No one listened!

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 26

 Beijing 1995

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 27

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 40,000 Women Came

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 29

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 Bella Abzug - USA
 Passionate
leader and
strategist
focused on
Beijing

 Former Senator

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 36

 Negotiating Final Document

STRONGEST governmental commitments to women of the world!

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 37
 UN Security Council Surprise

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 38

 Charlotte Bunch - USA

 Women’s
Human Rights
advocate
extraordinaire.

 Academic /
Activist
May 20, 2008 PROBUS 39
 The Work Continues ….

May 20, 2008 PROBUS 40