🎊 WATCH: Our 2025 Korea Peace Recap Video!
December 17, 2025
Posted in: Newsletters
Thank you for supporting Women Cross DMZ this year! Because of all our generous supporters, we powered through another year of advocacy, education, and organizing for Korea peace. Watch our 2025 Year in Review!
Women Cross DMZ depends on our community’s support. To ensure this work can continue for another year, please help sustain our movement and donate generously! Make your tax-deductible donation here before the end of the year. And if you cannot donate, please share this with someone in your life who can.
Read more about our year’s work in our 2024-2025 Annual Report. Here’s a recap of all we accomplished:
🪢 10-Year Anniversary Solidarity Trek to Korea: On the tenth anniversary of our historic 2015 crossing of the DMZ, we organized a solidarity trek to Korea with a delegation of U.S.-based feminist peacebuilders to meet with fellow peace and civic society activists, build transnational solidarity, and amplify our calls to end the Korean War. Watch clips here.
🪢 Advocacy: We successfully organized around the reintroduction of H.R.1841, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act for the 119th Congress. Our tenth annual Korea Peace Advocacy Week mobilized over 150 constituents from 29 states, with first-time advocates joining veteran Korea peace activists to educate Congressional representatives on the urgency of signing a peace agreement to end the Korean War.
🪢 Narrative Change and Grassroots Power: We reached over 28,000 readers and 300,000 views across our newsletter and social media platforms and organized dozens of in-person and virtual actions across the country. Our movement grows every day, from Las Vegas, the Pacific Northwest, Honolulu, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. to Guåhan! We are multigenerational Korean Americans, faith leaders, anti-war activists, veterans, community organizers, and more.
🪢 Education: Our programming this year covered critical and emerging issues including thwarting martial law and the South Korean democracy movement, the first summit between Lee Jae Myung and Donald Trump, and feminist lessons on resisting authoritarianism and U.S. militarism. We also published Women’s Rights Under the Division System in Korea, a groundbreaking report that sheds light on the historical and ongoing consequences of a divided Korea on women, and an accompanying multimedia zine.
The year ahead will bring new opportunities and challenges. Whatever arises, we are ready to spring into action, mobilize with our communities, and advocate for peace. See you in 2026 — our fight continues!
🗓️ Upcoming Event
70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) Parallel Event | March 13, 2026 at 8:30am EST
On March 13, 2026, WCDMZ will be in New York at the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) hosting a parallel event: “Social Healing through Advocacy: Women’s Leadership in Historical Redress.” Speakers and details to follow. Stay tuned!
🕊️ Reflections
We honor the life and legacy of Cora Weiss. Read WCDMZ Founder Christine Ahn’s tribute to her here.
In peace,
Women Cross DMZ