1953: WILPF International Secretary, Gertrude Baer, addresses an urgent appeal to the President of the UN General Assembly to throw his whole weight into stopping the war in Korea. Only six months later, the Armistice Agreement was signed.
1953: WILPF section in Delaware, United States, starts an international exchange called ‘Art for World Friendship’, exhibiting child drawings from around the world .
1955: Partially due to pressure from International Secretary, Gertrude Baer, the World Health Organisation’s assembly adopts a resolution to “study public health problems related to somatic and genetic action of radiation.”
1956: Triennial Congress in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
1956: Art for World Friendship pictures are circulated in more than 44 countries with over 26,000 pieces of children’s art, and the art is accepted in state schools of Denmark, India, Israel, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands.
1956: WILPF is included, and still remains, in the International Labor Organisation’s special list of relations with NGOs.
1956: As a result of WILPF efforts, UN agencies begin to investigate the radiation effects of nuclear testing.
1958: WILPF sends mission to the Middle East.
1958: WILPF Israel participates in efforts to ease tension between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel. In Jerusalem, WILPF manages to found an Arab/Jewish peace group comprised of students and graduates of the Hebrew University.
1960: The Madras Branch in India represents WILPF at the UNESCO Conference held in Delhi, and at the First Asian and African Women’s Conference held in Colombo.
1953: Between the years 1924 and 1953, WILPF Japan – along with most other civil organisations within the country – becomes officially dissolved by a militant Japanese government during the months leading up to the outbreak of World War II. When Japan signed the Peace Treaty after WWII, WILPF Japan was re-admitted as a Section during the Triennial Congress held in Paris, France.
1952: WILPF becomes the first organisation in Australia to publicly protest against nuclear testing at Monte Bello and the Woomera Rocket Range. WILPF also becomes heavily involved in campaigning for the full citizenship rights of Aboriginal people.
Triennial Congress in Birmingham, UK