1915: In 1915, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded.
Over 1300 women came together in The Hague, the Netherlands, to protest WWI. At this International Congress of Women, Aletta Jacobs said:
“It has been asserted that we should have limited our programme to a mere protest against war and that claims for woman suffrage were out of place on a programme of a peace conference. Those of us who have convened this Congress however have never called it a Peace Congress, but an International Congress of Women assembled to protest against war and to suggest steps which may lead to warfare being an impossibility.”
