1982: Birth of WILPF Costa Rica

1983: Triennial Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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1981: WILPF establishes the Gertrude Baer Internships for young women to learn about lobbying and participating in U.N. Conferences held in Geneva and New York.

1982: WILPF launches a signature campaign to Stop The Arms Race (STAR).

1982: Along with Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexico’s Ambassador to the UN), WILPF member Alva Myrdal wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

1983: WILPF concludes the Stop the Arms Race (STAR) campaign with a mass rally on 8 March in Brussels, demanding that NATO cancel the decision to deploy Pershing missiles. WILPF sections all over the world collect signatures for the STAR Campaign and present petition signatures to NATO leadership.

1983: French, British, the Federal Republic of Germany, US and Canadian Sections cable the NATO Nuclear Planning Group meeting in Canada to urge the suspension of new missile deployments and negotiations until agreements are reached for disarmament.

1984: WILPF launches a worldwide campaign for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

1985: WILPF initiates the highly-acclaimed Peace Tent at the UN’s Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya, marking the end of the UN Decade for Women.

1988: Birth of WILPF Bolivia

1988: Birth of WILPF Bosnia

1988: Birth of WILPF Croatia

1988: Birth of WILPF Palestine

1988: Birth of WILPF Peru

1986: Triennial Congress in Zeist, Netherlands.

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1989: Triennial Congress in Sydney, Australia.

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1986: WILPF organises mission to Chile, reporting on massive raids, forced detentions, and torture.

1987: WILPF sections around the world continue intensive efforts to stop nuclear weapons testing, including visits to the embassies of nuclear weapons states, and holding demonstrations.

1989: More than 40 women from the Pacific Islands, South East Asia, Latin America, India, the Indian Ocean and the Middle East participate in a “Seminar for Indigenous Women and Women from Developing Countries” held at the Triennial Congress in Australia.

1989: WILPF organises a conference on the ‘Role of the UN in the Peaceful Settlement of Conflict–From a Women’s Perspective’ to mark the occasion of International Women’s Day. Speakers address global independence struggles, including in Namibia.

1989: Central American WILPF members join the First Assembly of Women for Peace in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They adopt the Declaration of Honduras, which protests the reappearance of death squads, denounces discrimination against indigenous women of Guatemala, and calls for the dismantling of U.S. Military bases in the region.

1980: WILPF branches around Australia support action for Aboriginal Land Rights such as campaigning for the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Bill, and supporting Aborigines’ on the issue of mining on Aboriginal land at Noonkanbah, West Australia.

1980: WILPF takes part in anti-nuclear protests and marches against the visits of nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered warships to New Zealand ports, and against nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.

1986: WILPF West Australia organises the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace Conference.