Janet Robb, 'Five Women from the Far East' (UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1951)
Booklet by Janet Robb (AAUW New York City Branch, 20 Oct 1951) on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, with 25 delegate biographies, an IFUW statement on women's education and an account of the 1951 ILO equal-pay convention. The section 'Five Women from the Far East' profiles Artati Sudirdjo of Indonesia, a young
Gerwani statement on abrogating the KMB; women at the SOBSI national council (Bintang Timur, 23 February 1956)
Front page (with pp. 2-4) of Bintang Timur, Jakarta, 23 Feb 1956. The DPP Gerwani issues a statement, after a meeting with Central Java, West Java and Jakarta delegates, demanding full unilateral abrogation of the KMB agreements. Women delegates Setiati Surasto (Sarbupri), Sri Ambar, Tuti, Rantiyem and Emmy Purwati att
WIDF study publication (Berlin, 1958) on protection of motherhood as a right of women and a responsibility of society, with country contributions from Study Days participants, the ILO Convention 103 text and national summaries. It names Suwarti Bintang Suradi as Gerwani executive member and constituent assembly member.
'Indonesia anti-colonialists' (Setiati Surasto at the ILO conference)
Short Reuters item in Het Vrije Volk (13 Jun 1962, p.13): at the ILO conference in Geneva, Indonesian delegate Mrs Setiati Surasto states that all progressive forces in Indonesia are uniting to confront Dutch colonialists' stubbornness over West Irian, and that Indonesia will use 'other means' if peaceful liberation fa
West Irian struggle for a healthier economy
Nieuw Guinea Koerier, 23 June 1962, p. 3: Setiati Surasto, an Indonesian delegate at the ILO conference in Geneva, says all progressive forces in Indonesia are uniting against Dutch colonial stubbornness in West Irian and that Indonesia will use other means if peaceful liberation fails, framing it as part of workers' s
Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems
Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a