24 May, International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament was established on 24 May 1982 by a group of pacifist, feminist and antimilitarist European women, who came together to protest the buildup of arms and nuclear weapons. Among others, the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (England) , was active from 1981 to 2000. Women in Black consider war as the greatest perpetrator of all violence against women, society and the ecosystem. We feel that force and war constitute the language of power of any sort geared to continue that status and use it against women in a generalized way. It is the power that we have given them when we have allowed ourselves to be manipulated and deceived into thinking that war was a minor evil, that it was necessary. This deceit has taken root in government men throughout history, but women also have our quota of responsibility upon supporting that posture. They have made us internalize that we ar...