Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an activist organization addressing a variety of issues including world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, and ending all forms of violence. Founded in 1915 by some 1,300 women from Europe and North America, WILPF is organized in 37 countries and lobbies governments at the international, national and local levels. The New York Metropolitan Branch of WILPF was established in 1920.
Arrangement
This collection is unprocessed.
Scope and Contents
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records (1985-2009, ongoing) contains records from the organization on various campaigns, especially disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation, anti-Iraq War, anti-World Trade Organization actions, anti-corporate campaigns, and labor issues. Genres of documents include correspondence, clippings, meeting minutes, reports, newsletters, flyers, and websites. The collection also contains some of the fundraising and financial documents generated by WILPF. A significant portion of the collection was generated by the New York Metropolitan Branch.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2008.026 and NPA.2008.036.
Websites were initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2009 as part of the Feminism and Women's Movements Web Archive. In 2012, crawling was stopped for http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/ and https://www.peacewomen.org/. In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2018, ttp://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/ and https://www.peacewomen.org/ were re-added. The accession number associated with this accretion is 2019.089. In November 2020, https://www.change.wilpf.org/ and https://stories2019.wilpf.org/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2021.054. In April 2021, https://stories2020.wilpf.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2021.086. In June 2021, http://1325naps.peacewomen.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.002. In October 2021, https://caesura.wilpf.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.016. In November 2021, https://future.wilpf.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.028. In March 2022, https://menahub.wilpf.org/ and https://trello.com/b/J7NXW8ii/in-solidarity-with-ukraine-no-more-wars/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2022.052. In November 2022, https://bosnia-peace.wilpf.org/ and https://timeline.wilpf.org/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2022.093. In May 2024, https://humanrighttohealthcampaignuswilpf.wordpress.com/ and https://growingwilpf.com/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2024.030.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
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About this Guide
Processing Information
The collection was inventoried in 2011. In 2014, the archived websites were added to the container list. Additional websites were added in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024.
