Statements and letters

WDI statements and letters

• Oct 2025 WDI Canada writes to Canadian Minister of Justice Sean Fraser to express urgent concerns with respect to Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act.

Download template letter to send to MoJ, MP's etc to express concern.

• Sept 2025 WDI UK writes to the Moroccan Embassy to enquire into the welfare of Ibtisamme 'Betty' Lachgar who is currently being held in a prison in Morocco for 'causing harm to Islam.'
• July 2025 WDI UK response to launch of 'Safe With Me' campaign.
• July 2025 CEDAW Must Focus On Women - Press release by the UN Working Group
• June 2025 WDI USA Press Release on Supreme Court Ruling in United States v. Skrmetti
• June 2025 WDI Colombia WDI Colombia statement on Bill 122 regarding Comprehensive Gender Identity Law
• June 2025 WDI UN Working Group Annual Activities Report for July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
• Feb 2025 Statement by WDI NZ re the IPCA Report findings.
• Jan 2025 WDI's response to Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem's call for input on the concept of 'consent' in relation to VAWAG.
• Jan 2025 WDI Statement in Support of Marina Terragni
• Nov 2024 WDI Switzerland responds to a request by a youth debate organisation for views on 'inclusion' in sports.
• 10 Sept 2024 - WDI Colombia presents a new Spanish language translation of WDI Brasil's article 'Expectativa de vida de 35 años'.
• 3 Sept 2024 - WDI Canada and caWsbar have made a joint written submission to the 89th CEDAW Session, October 7 - 25, 2024
• 21 Aug 2024 - Open letter to UNAIDS by LBORI (inc. WDI USA Lesbian Caucus) decrying new terminology guidelines.
• 15 Aug 2024 - WDI USA files amicus brief with U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia, et al. v. B.P.J., et al.
• June 2024 WDI Canada's submission to the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force: The Importance of Clearly Defining Women Within the Employment Equity Act
• June 2024 WDI submission on Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity
• May 2024 WDI NZ with WRP response to questionnaire from Professor Daphna Hacker, the CEDAW Committee and the Task Force on Gender/Sex Self-Identification
• April 2024 WDI UN Working Group Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on VAWG in Sports
• April 2024 WDI Submission to UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem on VAWG in Sports
• Feb 2024 WRP NZ & WDI NZ Submission to the report of the Special Rapporteur on VAWG to the Human Rights Council on prostitution and violence against women and girls.
• Dec 2023 - WDI UK GREVIO submission 'The approach to sex and ‘gender identity’ in criminal justice institutions within the UK.'
• 16 Dec 2023- On Sex vs Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law
• 9 Sept 2023- WDI Statement on accusations by AWID against Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Ms. Reem Alsalem
• 16 Jun 2023- WDI USA Statement on White House "Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect LGBTQI+ Communities”
• 24 May 2023- The WDI USA Lesbian Caucus comments on USAID “inclusion” policy
• 23 May 2023- WDI UK Statement in Support of Petition to Repeal the GRA
• 12 April 2023 -WDI USA Statement on The Department of Education’s 2023 “Athletics NPRM”
• 25 March 2023 -WDI supports those speaking about women's sex-based rights.
• 22 March 2023 -WDI USA Statement on same-sex marriage equality laws and co-parenting.
• 2 March 2023 -WDI's message to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
• 28 February 2023 - WDI USA Credited for State Bills Banning Child Medicalization to Disguise Sex
• 13 February 2023- WDI Argentina send a Report on the political representation of Women in Argentina to CEDAW.
• 7 February 2023- WDI USA Statement on the Apparent Death of the Equality Act
• 1 February 2023- WDI USA Statement Regarding The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023
• 31 January 2023- WDI Argentina and Campaña Argentina por los Derechos de las Mujeres issue an Alternative Report to the Eighth Periodic Report of Argentina to CEDAW.
• 30 January 2023- A lesbian delegation to the House of Lords
• 15 December 2022- The “Respect for Marriage Act”: Response by WDI USA Lesbian Caucus
• 19 November 2022- WDI Bahamas express concerns about the Mental Health (Amendments) Act 2022.
• 17 November 2022- WDI Letter in support of Laura Lecuona
• 12 November 2022- WDI Statement on: La XV Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe
• 31 October 2022- WDI statement on the strategic use of nonviolent direct action.
• 24 October 2022-WDI Bahamas statement on the Sexual Offences Amendment Act
• 12 October 2022 - WDI statement in support of Iranian women.
• 4 September 2022-WDI USA announces the formation of the Lesbian Caucus, and its first completed project, The Lesbian Bill of Rights (LBOR).
• 2 September 2022 - WDI statement on the proposed Chilean constitution (Spanish and English)
• 1 September 2022 - WDI and WDI UK respond to inaccurate comments on our work published in the Radical Notion
• 1 August 2022 - WDI Germany stands in solidarity with Marie-Luise Vollbrecht
• 29 July 2022 - WDI Canada supports the Supreme Court’s ruling on stealthing
• 22 July 2022 - WDI statement of support for Peruvian women
• 19 July 2022 - WDI extends warm thanks to Raine McLeod, for her dedicated work as national co-ordinator of WDI Canada
• 27 June 2022- WDI USA statement on How the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong in Dobbs
• 26 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Julie Bindel
• 20 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Kellie-Jay Keen
• 15 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Anna Kerr
• 7 June 2022 - WDI statement in support of Christina Ellingsen
• 22 May 2022 - WDI Australia publishes report on its survey of politicians and their attitudes to women's sex-based rights
• 16 May 2022 - WDI statement in support of Ms Shono Yoriko
• May 2022 - WDI Statement on "Report on Gender Theory" by Independent Expert Madrigal-Borloz for the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• May 2022 - WDI annual report - read about everything WDI has been doing in 2021/22
• April 2022 WDI Brasil statement on single-sex provisions in hospitals
• April 2022 - statement of support for Katherine Deves
• March 2022 - WDI Scotland writes to the Scottish government regarding the new 'Gender Recognition Bill'
• WDI Brasil´s Requeriment to Procurador-Geral da República (the federal attorney) regarding sex-single prisons - number PGR-00112911/2021
• August 2021 - CSW complaint letters
• 8 July 2021 - letter to the Argentinian UN representative from WDI Argentina - in Spanish and English
• 2 July 2021 - statement from WHRC on NGO CSW's "Affirmation of Feminist Principles"
• 18 June 2021 - statement from WDI HQ
  WDI is disappointed to see that NGO CSW continues in its inability to prioritise the sex-based rights of women and girls. In a mass email sent out on Thursday 17 June by NGOCSW, the GEF (Generation Equality Forum) Civil Society Advisory Group asks people to sign up to a letter demanding that everybody involved in the GEF makes “intersectionality a core principle of our collective work” and that “women, girls and gender-diverse people” must be centred. WDI fears that the GEF will be used to promote an agenda that seeks to diminish the sex-based rights of women and girls by insisting that men who claim a female ‘gender identity’ are admitted into the category of women, in direct contradiction to CEDAW principles. Article 1 of the Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights, promoted by WDI, states that the rights of women are based on the category of sex. States, delegates and NGOs must uphold women’s sex-based rights as determined in CEDAW.