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2 itemsTopic: peasant women ✕Perspective: Socialist-bloc/solidarity press ✕Year: 1955 ✕
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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

GA-00879 1955-08-10 De Waarheid rel A

1945 - 17 Augustus - 1955: Maisuri geeft het voorbeeld

1945 - 17 August - 1955: Maisuri sets the example

De Waarheid, 10 Aug 1955, p. 5: illustrated story marking ten years of the Republic about Maisuri, a 17-year-old from Talang-Dukun, South Sumatra, sold by her parents to a landlord as fourth wife, who fled and married her chosen partner, was jailed for 'adultery' and freed after her mother turned to a Gerwani officer a