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GA-00321 1953-10-14 Tribune rel B

Australian women tell about World Congress (Tribune, 14 Oktober 1953)

Australian women tell about World Congress

Tribune (Sydney), 14 Oct 1953, p. 6: three Australian delegates (Flo Davis, Joyce Egan, Fuchsia Lewin) describe the WIDF World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, June 1953 (1,187 women, 70 countries). They stress peace, equal pay and socialist-bloc childcare. Indonesia appears briefly: Indonesian women urge support for a K

GA-00322 1953-10-14 Tribune rel B

Australian women tell about World Congress (Tribune, 14 Oktober 1953)

Australian women tell about World Congress

Tribune (Sydney), 14 Oct 1953, p. 6: three Australian delegates (Flo Davis, Joyce Egan, Fuchsia Lewin) describe the WIDF World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, June 1953 (1,187 women, 70 countries). They stress peace, equal pay and socialist-bloc childcare. Indonesia appears briefly: Indonesian women urge support for a K

GA-00633 1954-03-30 De Locomotief rel A

Muntilan: Vrouwen-organisaties (Muntilan: Women's organisations)

Muntilan: committee to receive foreign women's delegations

De Locomotief, 30 Mar 1954: Muntilan sets up a committee led by the local Gerwis branch to receive a forthcoming visit (April) of representatives of the WIDF and Chinese, Indian, Australian and Dutch women's organisations, to be welcomed at Borobudur. Evidence of Gerwis's WIDF-linked international hospitality.

GA-01219 1954-04-05 Java-Bode rel A

Monica Felton

Java-Bode, 5 April 1954, p. 2: WIDF vice-president Monica Felton lectured in Jakarta on the Federation's work and its relevance to Indonesia, after attending the second Gerwani congress as a guest. Rie Lips Odinot (Dutch Women's Movement) and the Australian Democratic Women's organisation also spoke on their groups' wo

GA-01222 1954-04-23 Java-Bode rel A

Positie van vrouwen besproken (Position of women discussed)

Position of women discussed

Java-Bode, 23 April 1954, p. 2: Gerwani held a Wednesday-evening meeting at Adhuc Stat to welcome foreign women's delegates. Australian delegate Allison Diekei, Dutch delegate Rie Lips and Soviet delegate Alexandra Kholopova spoke on women's position in their countries; Kholopova also described study opportunities for

GA-00324 1954-05-12 Tribune rel A

We need their friendship: 80 million Indonesians (Tribune, 12 Mei 1954)

We need their friendship: 80 million Indonesians

Tribune (Sydney), 12 May 1954, p. 11: Allison Dickie, Union of Australian Women delegate, reports on the 1954 Indonesian women's congress. She describes Gerwis, the league of women 'more politically awake', whose work helped hundreds of thousands become literate and from which Gerwani developed; the six-day Gerwani Nat

GA-00325 1954-05-12 Tribune rel A

We need their friendship: 80 million Indonesians (Tribune, 12 Mei 1954)

We need their friendship: 80 million Indonesians

Tribune (Sydney), 12 May 1954, p. 11: Allison Dickie, Union of Australian Women delegate, reports on the 1954 Indonesian women's congress. She describes Gerwis, the league of women 'more politically awake', whose work helped hundreds of thousands become literate and from which Gerwani developed; the six-day Gerwani Nat