WILPF has national sections in 37 countries.

WILPF has advocates and lobbies for the democratization of the UN, the Security Council and all other UN organizations and agencies ; monitors Security Council and General Assembly activities in order to promote reforms ; opposes the privatisation and corporatisation of the UN, especially the global compact with corporations ; and advocates for the abolition of the Security Council veto.

Emily Greene Balch ( January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961 ) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 ( the prize that year was shared with John Mott ), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF ).

Two WILPF leaders have received the Nobel Peace Prize for their peace efforts and international outlook and work with WILPF: Jane Addams, in 1931 and Emily Greene Balch in 1946.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF ) was established in the United States in January 1915 as the Woman's Peace Party.

WILPF is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and maintains a United Nations Office in New York City.

PeaceWomen is a project of the WILPF, based out of their United Nations Office in New York City.

* WILPF United Kingdom Section official website, www. ukwilpf. org. uk /

* WILPF United States Section official website, www. wilpf. org /

When her contract was terminated by Wellesley because of her pacifist activities, she became an editor of The Nation, a well-known liberal news magazine, acted as secretary of the WILPF ( a second term in 1934 without salary for a year and a half ), and did much work for the League of Nations.

WILPF moved its headquarters to Geneva to be near the proposed site of the League of Nations, although WILPF did not endorse empowering that organization to conduct food blockades or to use military pressure to enforce its resolutions.

* WILPF International official website, www. wilpfinternational. org /

During the World War I, she helped to found the WILPF League and campaigned against America's entry into the conflict.

WILPF envisions a world free of violence, poverty, pollution and dominance.

WILPF stands for equality of all people in a world free of racism, sexism and homophobia ; the building of a constructive peace through world disarmament ; and the changing of government priorities to meet human needs.

* WILPF Australia Section official website, www. wilpf. org. au /

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Even the Distilled Spirits Institute has long had a specific prohibition.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

He jammed it this spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered him.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

The highest state institution is the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), whose functions previously included electing the president and vice president ( since 2004 the president has been elected directly by the people ), establishing broad guidelines of state policy, and amending the constitution.

Macau also has representation on the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

The Majlis Al-Shura ( Consultative Council ) has the mandate of reviewing legislation pertaining to economic development and social services prior to its becoming law.

There is also a 150-member Consultative Assembly, appointed by the King, which can propose legislation to the King but has no legislative powers itself.

Although his ceremonial role as the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a quasi-consultative upper house in China's political system, makes him fourth in the order of precedence, it is widely accepted that the position has very little power, perhaps the least amount of power in the nine PSC members.

The International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) ( formerly: Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony ( CCITT )) has three umbrellas of standards for videoconferencing:

The Governments of Peru and Ecuador, desiring to settle the boundary dispute which, over a long period of time, has separated them, and taking into consideration the offer that was made to them by the Governments of the United States of America, of the Argentine Republic, of the United States of Brazil, and of Chile, of their friendly services to seek a prompt and honorable solution to the program, and moved by the American spirit that prevails in the Third Consultative Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, have resolved to conclude a protocol of peace, friendship, and boundaries in the presence of the representatives of those four friendly Governments.

Although these bodies are subordinate to theocracy – which has veto power over who can run for parliament ( or Islamic Consultative Assembly ) and whether its bills can become law – they have more power than equivalent organs in the Shah's government.

The Consumer Consultative Panel, in December 2009 said that they were unable to function for almost a year because officials ignored requests for meetings and " we believe it is unacceptable that the board of the financial regulation section has failed to take responsibility for their stewardship of the organisation during the last six years. They did not understand many of the sectors and financial products it regulates.

He has also been a member of the Eastern Area Electricity Consultative Council, and of the Mersey Regional Health Authority.

The Movement has had Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC since 1970 and is affiliated with the UN Department of Public Information ( DPI ) and a current board member of the Conference of NGOs ( CONGO ).

It has associate status with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and Roster Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ).

The government has created a national Consultative Council, and given permission for certain " societies " to exist ; and limited non-partisan municipal elections were held in 2005.

Consultative Status has its foundation in Article 71 of Chapter 10 of the United Nations Charter:

This proved the case prior to the 2002 Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), a body that has the power to change the Constitution.

The Parliament or Islamic Consultative Assembly ( Majlis-e Shura-ye Eslami ) has 290 members, elected for a four-year term in multi-and single-seat constituencies.

In 1988 Kwong was made a member of the Order of Canada and has served as the national chairman of the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism.

MindFreedom has been recognized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as a human rights NGO with Consultative Roster Status.

The NCA has five branches: The Congress ( legislative branch ), the Annual Consultative Assembly ( executive branch ), the National Task Force, the Region, and the constituency.

The OSMTH-KTI organisation that is registered in Geneva, Swiss Reg No: CH-660. 1. 972777-4 and is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations has over 5000 active members in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, England & Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia and in the United States.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ) has formally recognised and granted a ' Special Consultative Status ' to Minhaj-ul-Quran International due to its services in promoting peace, tolerance, interfaith harmony and education, tackling extremism and terrorism, engaging with young Muslims for religious moderation, promoting women ’ s rights, and providing social welfare and promotion of human rights.

Puren has served three terms as a delegate to the Municipal Political Consultative Conference of Beijing, and was also a researcher in Chinese history at the Beijing Research Institute.

The cemetery has a stele with calligraphy by Mao Zedong, praising Ehmetjan and his fellow martyrs for their contributions to the Chinese people ’ s revolution and mourning their death enroute to the Inaugural Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing.