Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

In July 1989, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom met for its 24th Triennial Congress in Australia.

There is at present a higher degree of openness between the Great Powers in the East and the West …. We wish that all the countries in the world could contribute to détente by setting up the following fund:

The 24th Congress of WILPF calls on all WILPF sections to press their governments for a change of legislation, making it possible for individual citizens to pay the percentage of the taxes used for military purposes to a fund for peace-building activities of a nonviolent character.