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About Women Cross DMZ

Formed in 2014, Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ) mobilizes women globally for peace in Korea through education, advocacy, and organizing. We are a leading voice in the movement calling for a formal end to the Korean War and the replacement of the armistice with a peace agreement. We are Nobel Peace laureates, feminist authors, peace activists, human rights lawyers, professors, former parliamentarians, faith leaders, humanitarian aid workers, filmmakers, artists, a retired Army Colonel, and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2015, WCDMZ gained international recognition by organizing a historic crossing of the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea. Thirty women—including two Nobel Peace laureates and feminist icon Gloria Steinem—walked arm-in-arm with 10,000 Korean women on both sides of the DMZ, on the wide boulevards of Pyongyang and the cobblestone streets of Kaesong, and along the barbed-wire fence in Paju. With this historic act we called for three things: an end to the Korean War, the reunification of separated families, and women’s involvement at all levels of the peacebuilding process. Since then, WCDMZ has continued to educate, advocate, and organize for an end to the Korean War. At the core, our work isn’t just about ending the Korean War — which technically never ended — but about completely rethinking our approach to peace and security. And to do that, we must look at foreign policy through a gendered lens. That’s why, in 2020, Women Cross DMZ joined forces with Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and MADRE to launch the Feminist Peace Initiative, which envisions a movement-driven U.S. foreign policy that prioritizes interdependence, cooperation, and justice, centering the voices and experiences of those most impacted by U.S. wars and militarism.

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