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2 itemsTopic: peasant women ✕Person: Eugénie Cotton ✕Source archive: Alexander Street: Women and Social Movements (WASI/WASG) ✕
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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-02808 1955 Simone Bertrand rel B licensed

Keynotes of the Council Meeting: Unity and Confidence (Simone Bertrand, 1955)

Keynotes of the Council Meeting: Unity and Confidence (Bertrand, 1955)

Simone Bertrand, WIDF Assistant General Secretary, reports in 1955 on the Fifth WIDF Council meeting in Geneva (45 countries). She cites GERWANI as a remarkable example: mostly peasant and plantation women, membership up from 80,000 to 281,000 in a year, and with nine organisations it formed a committee opposing a US b