As One! For Equality, For Happiness, For Peace: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen 1953
Report volume (WIDF, Berlin, 1953) on the World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953: reports, speeches, documents, resolutions and the officers elected. Gerwani and Gerwis are not named. Indonesia appears in the congress report (p. 4), which says its 10 delegates and observers came from six organisations, one
FBIS, 3 January 1953: Women's demand (GPII women's branch congress)
One-line FBIS item (3 Jan 1953): the women's branch of the Indonesian Islamic Youth League (GPII) held a congress in Jakarta and demanded vocational training for Indonesian women and a government physical-education vocational school for women. Background on Muslim women's organisations contemporary with Gerwis.
FBIS, 24 January 1953: Banquet given (Vienna Peace Congress delegates in China)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (24 Jan 1953): China Peace Committee gave a welcoming banquet for delegates of several countries to the recent (Vienna) Congress, including Indonesian delegates K. Werdojo, S.A.M. Mudigdio, Sunardi and Sukrisno. Records Mudigdio's visit to China after the Vienna peace congress.
FBIS, 24 January 1953: Foreign representatives (Indonesian delegates arrive in Peking)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua excerpt (24 Jan 1953): four Indonesian delegates to the Vienna Peace Congress (K. Werdojo, S.A.M. Mudigdio and Sunardi, MPs, and Sukrisno, assistant editor-in-chief of ANTARA) arrived in Peking by air the previous day at the invitation of the China Peace Committee, with a Burmese delegate. Records
FBIS, 20 April 1953: Delegates to Peking (SOBSI delegation, S.K. Trimurti)
FBIS item (20 Apr 1953): MP Tjugito (OCR) and Suharjo, secretary-general of SABDA, left Jakarta as SOBSI delegates to May Day in Peking. S.K. Trimurti left with the SOBSI delegation and would attend the women's congress in Copenhagen (World Congress of Women). Shows Trimurti's travel in the WIDF circuit.
FBIS, 4 May 1953: Women's delegation (to the Copenhagen congress)
FBIS item (4 May 1953): first group of Indonesia's delegation to the International Women's Congress in Copenhagen (from 5 June) left Jakarta by ship on 4 May: a SARBUPRI central committee woman (name garbled, Suranto), Maasje Siwi and Kartinah, both of Gerwis. Records named Gerwis delegates to the WIDF congress.
Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: Issues absorb Women's World Meet (WIDF Copenhagen Congress)
Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: report on the opening of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, with debates on peace and children and delegates from many countries, including Burma, Japan and the Philippines. Indonesia appears only in a speech listing the Dutch in Indonesia among colonial powers; no Indones
Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen (Indonesian delegates)
Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: account of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, describing delegates in the lobby (including 'exquisite Indonesians') and calls for peace. A moving scene has Indonesian and Dutch women embracing after a Dutch delegate said her people fought for liberty everywhere; Vietnam,
FBIS, 4 July 1953: Foreign visitors (Copenhagen delegates arrive in Peking, including Kartinah)
FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (4 Jul 1953): eighteen Chinese delegates to the World Congress of Women (Copenhagen), led by deputy leader Chang Yun, returned to Peking on 4 July with ten foreign women delegates invited to visit China, including Kartinah of Indonesia (Kartinah Kurdi, Gerwis). Shows the post-Copenhagen China
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
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
Soviet Woman, 31 Dec 1953: 'We Are Stronger Than Ever', WIDF and the Copenhagen Congress
Soviet Woman, 31 Dec 1953, pp. 49-52: WIDF declaration for peaceful settlement and Eugenie Cotton's statement, then Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's 'We are stronger than ever' on follow-up to the Copenhagen World Congress of Women. One sentence notes the Indonesian women's union GERWIS would hold its congress in Dece