2. 1. Advocacy for safe and affordable drinking water.
2. Environmental Issues (i.e. pesticides, pollutants, global
warming etc.)
3. Poverty
4. Abolishing Corporate Personhood
5. Domestic Violence
6. Anti-War Activism
7. Racism
8. Sexism
9. Lobbies Governments (Strives for racial, social, and economic
justice for all)
10. Advocate for Human Rights ( Works with the United Nations)

3. Currently WILPF Is Involved with
advocating for clean and affordable
Water for everyone.
Collaborating with Community Water
Center in Visalia.
This is been a pressing issue considering
The fact that a representative from the
U.N recently visited this year and deter-
Mind that 17 rural communities had
Unclean and unsafe water conditions.
(Water issue example 5 bills were recently
Passed in California that concerned these
Issues.)

4.  President
 Co-President
 Vice President
 International Board (composed of women througout
 The world.) roughly 42
 Interns
 Volunteers
 WILFP is unique beccomprised of a internati al, national,
and regional branches.

5.  WILPF represents and supports the rights and
advocates for justice of all human beings;
1. Internationally
2. Nationally
3. Regionally

6. WILPF members create the peaceful transformation the wish to see
in the world by making connections that:
• Provide continuity with the past so that knowledge of
historical events and patterns informs current activities for
change.
• Create analysis and action that reflect and reinforce each
other.
• Link and challenge root causes of oppression, especially
racism, sexism, heterosexism, militarism, economic
disparity, and political disempowerment.
• Build and strengthen relationships and movements for
justice, peace, and radical democracy.

7.  To bring together women of different political beliefs and
philosophies who are united in their determination to
study, make known and help abolish the causes and the
legitimization of war;
 To work toward world peace; total and universal
disarmament; the abolition of violence and coercion in the
settlement of conflict and their substitution in every case
of negotiation and conciliation; the strengthening of the
United Nations system; the continuous development and
implementation of international law; political and social
equality and economic equity; co-operation among all
people; and an environmentally sustainable development.

8.  Practice on a Macro and Micro level
 Lobbying
 Advocating
 Informing the community (
Forums, conferences, Presentations, outreach)
 Educating Individuals
 Networking
 Collaborating on projects with other organizations
 Creating Research
 Fundraising
 Community Organizing, national, and international.

9.  WILPF’s aims and goals to a large extent co-inside with
those of Social Work.
 They seek to promote social justice , equality, and human
welfare.
 Socially they also aim to have peace in the world , free of
wars and violence.
 In terms of Social Work values they correlate to our Ethical
Responsibilities to the Broader Society in Section 6 of our
Code of Ethics.
 Which is “Social Workers should promote the general
welfare of society, from local to global levels , and the
development of people.”

10.  WILPF like Social Work works to inform the public in
shaping social policies and institutions.
 WILFP is involved in the political arena and advocates and
lobbies for the needs of society and our world at large.
 WILPF also works towards eliminating “exploitation and
discrimination against any person, group, class, on the
basis of race, ethnicity, national ori
 gin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, age, marital status, political
belief, religion, immigration status, or mental and physical
ability.” (NASW Code of Ethics 2011)

11.  NASW.2011”Code of Ethics” National Association of
Social Workers. Retrieved 19 Oct. 2011.
 http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp
 WILFP.2011”Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom” Retrieved 19 Oct.2011.
 http://www.wilpfinternational.org/AboutUs/index.ht
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