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GA-02821 1947 WIDF rel C licensed

WIDF Bulletin (1947): Indonesia, Dutch aggression and women's solidarity

WIDF Bulletin 1947: Indonesia, Dutch aggression and women's solidarity

WIDF Bulletin, 1947: French Friends of Peace conference, plus an 'Indonesia' item quoting a letter from the Secretariat of the Indonesian Women's Congress on the Dutch colonial war. It says all women's organisations back the Republic, women take part in the fighting, thanks Dutch women's groups for protesting, and asks

GA-02822 1947 WIDF rel C licensed

WIDF Bulletin (1947): Two New Requests for Affiliation to the WIDF

WIDF Bulletin 1947: two new requests for affiliation (Netherlands, Indonesia)

WIDF Bulletin no. 12 (1947): news digest from women's organisations worldwide. Section IV announces two requests for WIDF affiliation, from the Netherlands women's movement and from the Pan-Indonesian Women's Congress (Java, June 1946), which seeks to unite with democratic women's groups abroad. Other items cover Spain

GA-02792 1949 rel C licensed

Second Women's International Congress, WIDF, Budapest, 1-6 December 1948

Official WIDF account of its Second Women's International Congress, Budapest, 1-6 December 1948 (390 delegates, 51 nations), with preface by Irene Joliot-Curie. It frames women's rights, child welfare and peace against Cold War blocs. Gerwani is not named. Indonesia appears only as a colonial struggle: appeals to end D

GA-02820 1956 Teng Ying-Chao, Hajrah Begum and Suharti rel A licensed

Let Us Respect All Opinions (speeches by Teng Ying-chao, Hajrah Begum and Suharti, 1956)

Let Us Respect All Opinions: speeches by Teng Ying-chao, Hajrah Begum and Suharti (1956)

1956 page of speeches to the WIDF Council: Teng Ying-chao (China), Hajrah Begum (India) and Suharti, Gerwani Vice-President and MP. Suharti reports Gerwani membership grew from 281,000 to 565,147, its cooperation at the Palembang Women's Congress (March 1955), International Children's Day events, and delegations demand

GA-02840 1956 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Experiences regarding Co-operation Work (WIDF, 1956)

1956 WIDF bulletin item on Indonesia: the Gerwani Central Council's report on cooperation with other women's organisations, overcoming mistrust, membership rising from 281,000 to 565,147, local marriage-rights actions, rural work with peasant groups, the All-Indonesia Women's Congress adopting Gerwani's proposed Charte

GA-02793 1958 rel A licensed

IVth Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958

IVth Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Vienna, June 1958

WIDF volume on the IVth Congress, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958: speeches, reports and resolutions. Gerwani appears directly: Mudigdio, vice-president of Gerwani and head of the Indonesian delegation, speaks (pp. 89-92) for 663,740 members, citing equal-pay claims, the Third Gerwani Congress (December 1957), West Irian, work w

GA-02812 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Women's Movement, Part II (Sulami, 1959)

Part II of Sulami's 1959 history: Indonesian women under Japanese occupation (Fujinkai, women coerced as 'geishas'), the 1945 proclamation, founding of Perwari (Klaten, Dec 1945), the formation of KOWANI (Solo, Feb 1946), its second congress at Madiun deciding to affiliate to WIDF, and women's role in partisan resistan