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GA-02825 1951-01 WIDF rel C

Femmes du monde entier, No. 50, janvier 1951 (FDIF, Berlin)

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951, the French-language WIDF bulletin issued from Berlin. Editorial and reports urge women to back the Second World Peace Congress's address to the UN: Korea, Formosa and Vietnam, banning mass-destruction weapons, colonial oppression (Madagascar, Vietnam, South Africa), war prop

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-02827 1952 WIDF rel C licensed

Message to the Executive Committee of the WIDF (1952): Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive message 1952: Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive Committee message (1952) calling women worldwide to prepare for the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 5 December 1952, and to demand an end to the Korean war, arms reduction, banning of atomic and bacteriological weapons, and a Pact of Peace. Signatories include Eugénie Cotton and others; Darmin

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-03418 1965-11-27 Neue Zeit rel C licensed

Neue Zeit, 27. November 1965, S. 4: Die Kraft liegt in der Einigkeit. Zwanzig Jahre Internationale Demokratische Frauenföderation

Neue Zeit, 27 Nov 1965, p. 4: Strength lies in unity: twenty years of the Women's International Democratic Federation

Neue Zeit, 27 November 1965, p. 4 (women's page): 'Die Kraft liegt in der Einigkeit', a history of 20 years of the WIDF (IDFF). Indonesia appears once, in a list of imperialist armed aggressions (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya, Korea) against which the WIDF organised protests. The article also stresses the DFD's role and I

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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);