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2 itemsTopic: women's rights and emancipation ✕Place: Java ✕Event: Second Gerwis Congress: renaming to Gerwani ✕
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GA-02831 1954 WIDF rel A licensed

Indonesia: Miss Darmini of the G.E.R.W.I.S. (WIDF, 1954)

Indonesia: Miss Darmini of Gerwis (WIDF, 1954)

WIDF 1954 profile of Miss Darmini of GERWIS, reporting to a WIDF meeting. Membership rose from 6,000 at the 1951 first congress to 37,000 by 1953 and about 600,000 prior to the March 1954 second congress (as printed); the Union of Railway Workers' Wives affiliated. She describes campaigns on women's rights, maternity l

GA-00868 1954-05-12 De Waarheid rel A

Een groot en sterk volk strijdt voor een beter leven (Rie Lips over Java)

A great and strong people fights for a better life: Rie Lips on Java

De Waarheid, 12 May 1954, p. 5: opening of an interview with Rie Lips, vice-chair of the NVB, back from six weeks on Java after the Gerwis/Gerwani congress. She rejects stereotypes of Indonesians as lazy, dirty or stupid, citing women who work in factories or walk hours to attend meetings of the women's movement, 'the