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2 itemsTopic: West Irian campaign ✕Person: Eugénie Cotton ✕Source archive: Alexander Street: Women and Social Movements (WASI/WASG) ✕
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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

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World Congress of Women Convened by the WIDF, Moscow, June 1963

World Congress of Women, Moscow, June 1963

WIDF publication on the World Congress of Women, Moscow, 24-29 June 1963 (1,543 women, 113 countries): reports, speeches, resolutions and the new WIDF council list. Gerwani is mentioned briefly: its roughly 1,000 day nurseries for working mothers are cited as a model; its role in the West Irian campaign is praised; and