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GA-02782 1952 rel C licensed

WIDF, 'For Their Rights as Mothers, Workers, Citizens' (1952)

WIDF pamphlet (Berlin, Dec 1952) surveying women's political rights, wages, unemployment, education, rural conditions and social protection country by country, and issuing the Call to the World Congress of Women (Denmark, June 1953). Indonesia appears briefly: equal rights on paper under the 1950 Constitution, no elect

GA-02783 1953 rel C licensed

As One! For Equality, For Happiness, For Peace: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953

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

GA-02784 1954 rel B licensed

WIDF, 'I Want To Live: Ban Atomic Weapons' (1954)

WIDF pamphlet 'I Want To Live' (Berlin, May 1954) campaigning to ban atomic weapons after the March 1954 Bikini H-bomb test, with Hiroshima testimonies, the Stockholm Appeal and WIDF appeals. Page 25 cites a resolution of 1 April 1954 in Jakarta by the National Congress of the 'Indonesian Women's Democratic Organisatio

GA-02794 1958 rel A licensed

IVth Congress of the WIDF, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958 (Berlin edition): Conference on the Rights of Women

IVth Congress of the WIDF, Vienna, 1958 (Berlin Edition): Conference on the Rights of Women

Berlin edition of the WIDF IVth Congress (Vienna, June 1958) pamphlet on the conference 'Conditions which will enable woman to fulfil her role as mother, worker and citizen' (98 delegates, 55 countries). The Indonesian section (pp. 66-70) has Mudigdio, Gerwani vice-chair, urging a WIDF study or seminar on peasant women

GA-02819 1958 Suwarti Bintang Suradi rel A licensed

The Struggle is Just and a Just Struggle will Surely be Victorious (Suwarti Bintang Suradi, 1957/58)

The Struggle is Just and a Just Struggle will Surely be Victorious (Suwarti, 1957/58)

Article by Suwarti Bintang Suradi (Gerwani), dated Berlin 20 Dec 1957, in WIDF's magazine on Indonesia's West Irian campaign: mass rally of a million in Jakarta, ten-minute silence, general strike in Dutch firms, takeover of Dutch enterprises, KLM ban, UN defeat, international support. Names Gerwani among organisations

GA-00062 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Hati Wanita Jerman Enggan Dibelah

German Women's Hearts Refuse to Be Divided

Api Kartini (1959) travel-style article by S. Jin on divided Berlin and German women's campaign against atomic armament and remilitarisation. Cites arrests and petitions in West Germany (Renate Kruse, Renate Riemeck, Elisabeth Heimpel, Hamburg and Dortmund women's groups), East German women's views, and WIDF telegrams;

GA-00063 1959 Api Kartini rel B licensed

Kamerun Merdeka

Cameroon Independent

Api Kartini (1959) article welcoming Cameroon's coming independence (1 January 1960). Profiles Marthe Ouandie of the Cameroon women's movement and WIDF (based in East Berlin), who knows Indonesian women of GERWANI through WIDF and the peasant-women's federation; expresses Indonesian women's solidarity and support for U

GA-00066 1959 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Melihat G.W.D.S. dari Dekat

Getting to Know the WIDF Up Close

Api Kartini preview of the WIDF Bureau meeting due in Indonesia (early 1960), profiling its leaders: President Eugenie Cotton, Secretary-General Carmen Zanti, Marie Ange, Beatrice Johnson and Asian-African vice-presidents. Notes WIDF's support for Indonesian independence and condemnation of Dutch aggression, and that G

GA-00115 1959 Sulami rel A licensed

Sumbangan Wanita Sedunia kepada Jamannya

The World's Women's Contribution to Their Era (Sulami)

Article by Sulami (1959) reporting on the WIDF Bureau meeting in Prague, chaired by Eugenie Cotton, and the Council with 51 countries. It stresses women's duty to protect children, supports disarmament and Soviet-US talks, backs the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day, and links peace to Indonesian national i

GA-00083 1961 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Pembicaraan Majalah Women of the Whole World

On the Magazine Women of the Whole World

Api Kartini (1961) feature introducing the WIDF's monthly magazine 'Women of the Whole World' (six languages, Berlin), describing its sections on women's rights, peace, children and culture, and its photo covers. Gives subscription details for Indonesian readers (Rp. 12 per year via Jakarta) and notes administrative de

GA-00092 1962 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Sahabat Penyokong Pembebasan Irian Barat (tamu Kongres Gerwani ke-IV)

Friends Supporting the Liberation of Irian Barat (Guests at Gerwani's Fourth Congress)

Api Kartini (early 1962) report on foreign guests at Gerwani's 4th National Congress (Jakarta, December 1961): Gloria Garton (WIDF and Australian women), Dzhura Ilkhamova and Nina Voronina (USSR), Kuo Chien and Chang Chieh-hsun (China), and Nitze of East Germany. They toured Yogyakarta, Bogor and Bandung, praised Gerwa

GA-02787 1966 rel A licensed

Appell für Solidarität mit GERWANI und den Frauen Indonesiens (Seruan Solidaritas dengan Gerwani dan Perempuan Indonesia), WIDF, 1966

Appeal for Solidarity with Gerwani and the Women of Indonesia (WIDF Bureau, June 1966)

WIDF Bureau appeal (Berlin, 2-5 June 1966), German original with English translation and notes by Faye Chan (2015). It states that tens of thousands of Indonesian women were murdered or are held and tortured, that Gerwani's leaders and several thousand members were arrested, and that Gerwani and other women's organisat

GA-02798 1969 rel C licensed

WIDF, Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation, 1964-1969 (appendix)

WIDF Activities 1964-1969 (appendix to Sixth Congress report)

Chronological appendix (1969) to the WIDF activity report for the Sixth Congress, listing 1964-69 activities: Viet Nam and Middle East solidarity, peace and disarmament meetings, women's rights seminars, rights of the child, attendance at national congresses, Bureau and Council meetings, UN agency work and publications

GA-02800 1975 rel C licensed

7th WIDF Congress, International Women's Year: Equality, Development, Peace (Berlin, 26 October 1975)

7th WIDF Congress, International Women's Year, Berlin 1975

Published proceedings of the 7th Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), Berlin, 26 October 1975: opening and general-secretary addresses (Aruna Asaf Ali, Fanny Edelman), the report on WIDF work since the 1969 Helsinki congress, finance and credentials reports, the Prospective Plan to 1980 a

GA-02957 2012 rel B licensed

The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991

The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)

Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);