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GA-00460 1956-07-05 Bintang Timur rel A

Delegasi buruh wanita Indonesia (Darmini, Gerwani) ditolak masuk Thailand, Bintang Timur 5 Juli 1956

Indonesian women workers' delegation (Darmini, Gerwani) refused entry to Thailand (Bintang Timur, 5 July 1956)

Bintang Timur, 5 July 1956, p. 1 (four-page issue). Reports that the Indonesian women workers' delegation returning from the world women workers' conference in Budapest was refused entry/visas in Thailand on the way back via Copenhagen and told to continue flying or be jailed. Ten delegates are named from trade unions,

GA-02957 2012 rel B licensed

The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991

The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)

Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);