Advocacy

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October 2024

We continue to write to the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State to urge them to stop selling arms to Israel, amid the continuing genocide taking place in Gaza. Read our advocacy letters below, about Gaza and other issues, and use them as a template to lobby your own Member of Parliament.

Tools for advocacy

WILPF advocates for matters relating to disarmament, climate justice, human rights and women, peace and security. Below you can find and read the letters we have sent to parliamentarians to encourage change and support new policies to build sustainable peace. 

We hope that these advocacy letters will be useful as templates to lobby your local Member of Parliament and other politicians. TheyWorkForYou.com helps you find out all the details of your local MP by just checking your postcode.

We also encourage you to contact local media outlets and share our perspective. You can use this Newspaper directory, or radio postcode checker.

If you have a topic you think WILPF should write about, or are interested in writing or editing, please contact us and consider joining our letter writing group. 

Letter to the US Ambassador: A peaceful state for Palestinians

Letter to the government: Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Letter to the Chancellor: Reconsider ‘growth’ for a sustainable future

Letter to the government: Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Letter to the government: Stop Fossil Fuels from Fuelling Conflict

Letter to the Foreign Secretary: Peaceful negotiation not maximum aggression in Ukraine

Letter to UK Mission to UN: End conflict in Lebanon and Gaza

Letter to the Mayor of London: Stop The Arms Fair

Letter to the Prime Minister: Reinstate a Minister for Peace & Disarmament

Need for an Urgent Rethink of International Response to the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

Share our manifesto for the General Election

Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems

Open Letter: Outrage at Rwanda Bill

Letter to the government: UK government must halt the horror unfolding in Gaza

Open Letter: Call for the nomination of woman UN Secretary-General

GAPS Secretariat Statement- “More than a human can bear”: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023

Million Women Rise on International Women’s Day

Ian Blackford: An unwelcome step back from inclusive progress on TPNW – by Áine Beattie

Scottish WILPF at The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

Statement on UK cuts to Overseas Development Aid – by GAPS

Solidarity with Lebanon: Stop Arming Israel

Need for an Urgent Rethink of International Response to the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

Share our manifesto for the General Election

One Woman’s War: Essays Written in War, for Peace – Review by Sheila Triggs

Join a worldwide show of solidarity with Istanbul’s Saturday Mothers

Connecting two years of war in Ukraine with non-violent feminist perspectives – catch up and learn more

“We don’t need saving, we just need the space”

How to get involved

Become a member of WILPF UK to help campaign for peace. Visit our membership page to learn more or contact our team to discuss involvement.