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GA-02838 1956 WIDF rel C licensed

An Important Contribution in the Struggle for Women's Rights: The World Conference of Women Workers, Budapest 1956

World Conference of Women Workers, Budapest 1956 (WIDF issue)

Issue of Women of the Whole World (no. 105, 1956) on the World Conference of Women Workers in Budapest, 14-17 June 1956 (497 delegates, 44 countries): reports on wage discrimination, working mothers, African women, Latin America, plus a contents list pointing to the Indonesian delegate's speech. This page itself says l

GA-02839 1956 WIDF rel C licensed

Appeal to the Women of Asia and Africa (WIDF Council, Peking, 1956)

WIDF Council (Peking, 24-30 April 1956) 'Appeal to the Women of Asia and Africa', with a side item on a European girls' conference in Paris. The appeal salutes anticolonial struggles, welcomes the Bandung principles, and opposes the Baghdad and SEATO pacts and nuclear tests. Indonesia and Gerwani are not named.

GA-02073 1956-05-30 Moscow News rel B licensed

Moscow News, 30 Mei 1956, hlm. 5 (Delegasi perempuan Indonesia di Moskow)

Moscow News, 30 May 1956: Indonesian women's delegation in Moscow

Moscow News (English), 30 May 1956, p. 5. Among general items (Afghan independence day, Anglo-Soviet and trade comment), a short piece reports a delegation of Indonesian women arriving in Moscow at the invitation of the Central Council of Trade Unions, led by Setiati Surasto, secretary of the plantation workers' union,

GA-02328 1956-07-24 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Women Unionists from 42 Lands Hold Conference in Budapest (Indonesian delegate on equal pay)

Daily Worker, 24 July 1956: Women unionists from 42 lands hold conference in Budapest

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 24 Jul 1956) reporting a Budapest conference of women trade unionists from 42 countries called by the WFTU, which demanded equal pay and opportunities and paid maternity leave. An unnamed delegate from Indonesia is cited on women workers being treated as cheap labour. Gerwani is no