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GA-00799 1948-10-01 De Waarheid rel C

Vrouwen als gij allen (Women like you all)

Women like you all: introducing the WIDF to Dutch readers

De Waarheid piece (1 Oct 1948) presenting the 80-million-member WIDF to Dutch readers as ordinary women including those in Indonesia, and quoting its appeal to women to demand arms reduction and ban atomic weapons. Indonesia appears only in a list of countries.

GA-00817 1950-12-14 De Waarheid rel C

Het begon in Parijs: Vijf jaar IDVF (It began in Paris: five years of the WIDF)

It began in Paris: five years of the WIDF

De Waarheid retrospective (14 Dec 1950) on five years of the WIDF, founded in Paris in Dec 1945, describing its heroines and growth to 91 million members in 59 countries, the 1946 founding of the Dutch Women's Movement, the 1949 Asian women's conference in Peking and the Stockholm Appeal. Indonesian women are only name

GA-00898 1960-08-29 De Waarheid rel A

Een brief uit Indonesië aan de Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging

A letter from Indonesia to the Dutch Women's Movement (Gerwani reply)

De Waarheid, 29 Aug 1960, p. 2: publication of Gerwani's reply letter to the NVB, thanking Dutch women on behalf of its 710,000 members for their efforts to prevent sons being sent to West Irian, promising to publish the NVB letter in Indonesia and to keep working for peace. Prefaced by a note recalling Gerwani's teleg

GA-00899 1961-11-28 De Waarheid rel A

Begroeting Gerwani

Greeting from Gerwani to the Dutch women's meeting on New Guinea

De Waarheid, 28 Nov 1961, p. 3: report of an NVB (Dutch women's) meeting where the peaceful settlement of New Guinea was top of the programme. A highlight was a greeting from Gerwani, described as a 900,000-member Indonesian women's organisation, saying Indonesian and Dutch women are closely linked in protecting childr

GA-00949 1979-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren over Tanti Aidit en de hetze tegen Gerwani)

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit and the witch-hunt against Gerwani)

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: excerpt from Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit, board member of Gerwani, sister organisation of the NVB. She says Gerwani had one million members, was the target of a huge smear campaign during and after the 1965 coup, with women accused of atrocities, which found fertile ground among rea