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GA-02824 1950 WIDF rel C licensed

WIDF (1950): From All Parts, Women Write to the WIDF

WIDF 1950: From All Parts, Women Write to the WIDF

WIDF bulletin, 1950: 'From All Parts, Women Write to the WIDF' with reports from South Africa, Israel and Indonesia. The Indonesia section recounts women in the Republic's struggle against the Dutch, mass May Day rallies (390,000 in 1950), repression after the Madiun era, harsh conditions for plantation women, and supp

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

GA-02776 1958 rel A licensed

Geeta Mukherjee, 'About the Movement of Indonesian Women' (lampiran surat edaran WIDF, 21 April 1958)

Geeta Mukherjee, 'About the Movement of Indonesian Women' (WIDF Circular Attachment, 21 April 1958)

Report by Indian MP Geeta Mukherjee on Gerwani, attached to a WIDF circular of 21 April 1958, based on talks with her neighbour Suwarti Bintang Suradi, WIDF Secretariat member and Gerwani organisation chair. It covers Gerwis's 1950 origin and renaming, the Third Congress, membership growth (to 460,000 by August 1957),

GA-02794 1958 rel A licensed

IVth Congress of the WIDF, Vienna, 1-5 June 1958 (Berlin edition): Conference on the Rights of Women

IVth Congress of the WIDF, Vienna, 1958 (Berlin Edition): Conference on the Rights of Women

Berlin edition of the WIDF IVth Congress (Vienna, June 1958) pamphlet on the conference 'Conditions which will enable woman to fulfil her role as mother, worker and citizen' (98 delegates, 55 countries). The Indonesian section (pp. 66-70) has Mudigdio, Gerwani vice-chair, urging a WIDF study or seminar on peasant women

GA-02855 1965 WIDF rel A licensed

Our Road: Reports, Reportages, Information (WIDF, 1965), including 'GERWANI for Peasant Women'

Our Road: reports from many countries (WIDF, 1965), incl. Gerwani for Peasant Women

WIDF magazine 1965 'Our Road' news page (mid-1965), with reports on North and South Korean women, West German women against Emergency Laws, and Argentina/India/US actions. A 'GERWANI for Peasant Women' item says Gerwani's International Women's Day statement backed peasants' demands for the Basic Agrarian Law and Crop S