1971: Triennial Congress in New Delhi, India.

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1974: Triennial Congress in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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1971: Kay Camp, Patricia Shannon, Lois Hammer and Marguerite Lorée visit Saigon on the first leg of a WILPF mission to Vietnam, resulting in the signing of a Women’s Peace Treaty between WILPF and the Vietnamese Women’s Peace Coalition.

1973: WILPF delegation visit Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, Elizabeth Birangui (Vice President, Union Revolutionarie des Demmen Congolaise) and Marii Hasegawa (President WILPF)

1974: WILPF plays an active role during the International NGO Conference against Apartheid and Colonialism in Africa held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

1974: WILPF sends a ten-day fact-finding mission to Chile to investigate human rights violations.

1974: Delegation sent to Northern Ireland to investigate the conflict and help promote forces working for peaceful solutions.

1975: United Nations declares 1975 as International Women’s Year. It is also the year of WILPF’s 60th Anniversary.

1975: WILPF convenes the Women’s Disarmament Conference at the U.N. in New York.

1975: WILPF co-sponsors a disarmament seminar at the U.N., in which women from 27 countries meet with 200 women from the U.S. The representative from the Cuban Women’s Union becomes the first Cuban permitted by the U.S. government to enter the country for a political meeting since the Cuban revolution.

1979: Birth of WILPF Jamaica

1979: Birth of WILPF Mauritius

1979: Birth of WILPF Sri Lanka

1977: Triennial Congress in Tokyo, Japan.

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1980: Triennial Congress in Connecticut, US.

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1977: WILPF supports the J.P. Stevens boycott, as well as farm workers’ boycotts of lettuce, grapes, and the Campbell Soup Company in the USA.

1976-78: WILPF launches the Feed the Cities, Not the Pentagon Campaign.

1978: Helen Kusman (International Vice President) and Marjorie Boehm (U.S. President) visit Cuba as a result of an invitation from the Federation of Cuban Women.

1978: International WILPF President, Kay Camp, represents WILPF at the International NGO Disarmament Conference, convened in Geneva in anticipation of the U.N. Special Session Devoted to Disarmament (SSD).

1978: WILPF protests against the Indonesian Government’s invasion of East Timor and demands that the people of East Timor be given the opportunity for self-determination under United Nations supervision.

1978: A successful two day conference discussing the SALT II Treaty is held in Washington, DC,  and is co-sponsored by WILPF. Over 200 women leaders come together to learn about the relationship between women’s issues and the arms race.

1978: Sixteen WILPF women go on missions to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel to assess prospects for peace in the Middle East.

1979: Learning Peaceful Relationships, a booklet full of practical activities for children to learn about communication, co-operation and non-confrontational ways of dealing with conflict, was published as a contribution to the UN International Year of the Child.

1979: WILPF Australia organises, coordinates and publishes a lengthy three-part submission to the Prime Minister on the Health, Education and Housing of Aboriginal children on behalf of the Section.