Fruits of Bolivia: Peace and Security Action Calendar

The draft WILPF calendar below came out of Peace and Security Working Group and Program committee meetings at the Bolivia Congress. You can view the calendar with links and formatting at http://disarm.wilpf.org/enews. It is still open for suggestions and additions. It includes international calendar dates for women's peace issues, disarmament/demilitarization and human rights which the Program Committee at the Congress thought were important for our planning.

AUGUST 29, 2007 Peace and Security Working Group Calendar

January: CEDAW Reporting: (In 2008, January 14 to February 1, Bolivia, Burundi, France, Lebanon and Sweden will be reporting at the 40th Session. Are these WILPF Sections participating in NGO shadow reporting?)

February: UN Commission on the Status of Women (The 2008 session 25
February to 7 March in New York)

March 8: International Women's Day.

April 28: WILPF's birthday.

End of April and early May: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Committee Meetings. * In 2008 the Prep Com will be in Geneva. * In 2009 WILPF is among those pushing for Hiroshima * 2010 will be the very important Review Conference in New York where we must make real progress toward abolition of nuclear weapons

May: UN Commission on Sustainable Development. ( In 2008 May 5-16 in New York.)

May 24th - International Women's Day for Disarmament. Originated by FOR's Women Peacemakers Program.

July: CEDAW reporting. (In 2008, June 30 to July 18, Finland and the United Kingdom are among those reporting at the 41st Session. Are these WILPF Sections participating in NGO shadow reporting?)

August 6-9: Hiroshima Nagasaki Days

September 21: International Day for Peace

October 4-10 plus two weekends: Keep Space for Peace Week, co-sponsored annually by WILPF and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. (October 4 to 13, 2007).

October 4-10: UN World Space Week.

October 10, 2007: the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which seeks to ensure the peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind.

October 9: Indigenous People's day. Make linkages with Keep Space for Peace Week and the No Foreign Bases Network. Much of the space militarization and nuclear weapons activity is conducted on expropriated indigenous lands.

October 24: United Nations Day

October 24-31: United Nations Disarmament week

October 31: Anniversary of UNSCR 1325. (WILPF celebrates this date but must make certain 1325 is not forgotten the rest of the year!)

All October: General Assembly First Committee in New York, with opportunities for NGO involvement and reported on by WILPF Reaching Critical Will.

November 25: UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women followed by 16 days of activism to end violence against women

December 10: UN Human Rights Day

December: UN Biological Weapons Convention intersessional meetings of States Parties. (In 2007 meets December 10-14 in Geneva.)