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.
International commission visited Korea: repulsive crimes of American interventionist armies
De Waarheid, 19 Jun 1951, p. 3: report of a press briefing in Amsterdam by Mr. T. (Trees) Sunito-Heyligers, Dutch member of the 20-person WIDF commission that visited North Korea 17-30 May 1951. She describes US bombing and alleged massacres, and links Dutch troops in Korea to Dutch colonial wars in Indonesia. Context
Documents of the 4th WIDF Congress, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958
Document pack of the WIDF Fourth Congress, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958: Eugenie Cotton's report on women's role, the Manifesto, resolutions on peace, women's rights and children, appeals to the UN, credentials report and constitution. Indonesia appears in passing: Cotton credits 'the Indonesian Women's Movement' with improvi
Chinese women's federation and four bodies cable support for Indonesia's withdrawal from the UN
Xinhua dispatches in Renmin Ribao (13 Jan 1965, p. 2): five Chinese bodies cable Indonesian counterparts backing Sukarno's UN withdrawal. The All-China Women's Federation's telegram to Kowani, Gerwani, Marhaenist women, Muslimat NU and another group calls the UN a 'paper tiger' and pledges unity with '104 million' Indo
Cecile Hugel, Report of Activities of the WIDF to the 6th Congress, Helsinki, 1969
Activity report by WIDF General Secretary Cecile Hugel to the Sixth WIDF Congress, Helsinki, 17 June 1969. Covers Viet Nam and Middle East solidarity, Latin American seminars, UN consultative status regained, and future plans. Page 8 notes WIDF's concern for 'democratic men and women in Indonesia', a telegram to Genera
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
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
Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems
Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a
Potsdam (on the division of Korea)
De Waarheid piece (17 Jun 1985, p.5) on the origin of Korea's division at the 38th parallel after Potsdam and the Korean War. It recalls CPN opposition to Dutch participation and quotes Trees Sunito-Heyligers, who visited Korea in 1951 with a twenty-woman international delegation and wrote 'Wij beschuldigen'. No Indone