1961: In an effort to break down Cold War barriers, the first WILPF conference of Soviet and US women is held in Philadelphia, US.
1961: During World Refugee Year, WILPF sections in Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, helps 32 refugee families in Austria by founding an apartment building named after Jane Addams.
1961: WILPF India increases to five branches.
1961: The New Zealand Section joined with seven other organisations to promote an open forum on World Disarmament for World Development on Hiroshima Day.
1963: In preparation for WILPF’s Fiftieth Anniversary (1965), the Congress launched a worldwide petition asking women to use their power to end the war in Vietnam.
1965: Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is the keynote speaker for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of WILPF at the Triennial Congress in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the 50th Anniversary.
1967: Fifty-two branches in the USA participate in Vietnam Summer, during which Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for 10,000 volunteers to organise and educate about Vietnam in 500 communities.
Demonstrations in Washington, DC, were held every month to protest US involvement in Vietnam.
1969: WILPF holds a conference in London on chemical and biological warfare.
1965: WILPF Australia creates many innovative actions – such as hanging a huge banner reading “You Go To An Unjust War” over the cliff at North Head of Sydney Harbor – when the first military ship of conscripts sailed off.
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the 50th Anniversary.
Demonstrations in Washington, DC, were held every month to protest US involvement in Vietnam.