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2 itemsTopic: marriage law and polygamy ✕Theme: Transnational connections ✕Person: Monica Felton ✕
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GA-02806 1954 Monica Felton rel A licensed

Dawn Over the Equator (Monica Felton on the Second Gerwani Congress, 1954)

Dawn Over the Equator: Monica Felton on the Second Gerwani Congress, 1954

Monica Felton (WIDF Vice-President) writes in 1954 on the Second Congress of Gerwani, which she attended: 349 delegates, 80,000 members, a meeting with President Sukarno, resolutions on West Irian, the 1955 elections, a nationwide marriage law, democratic rights and support for the government against armed gangs. She s

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Indonesian Women Traversed the Seas to Attend This Conference (Sunardi, 1956)

1956 extract from a speech by Sunardi, Indonesian delegate to the World Conference of Women Workers, plus a column of international women's news. She describes low wages, foreign monopolies, plantation women workers, absence of democratic marriage law and labour protection, the unilateral abrogation of the Round Table