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GA-02791 1948 rel C licensed

The Women of Asia and Africa: Documents, Report of the Commission (WIDF, Budapest, December 1948)

The Women of Asia and Africa: Documents, Report of the Commission (WIDF, Budapest, 1948)

WIDF documents volume (Budapest, December 1948) for the Conference of the Women of Asia: the report of the WIDF commission that toured South-East Asia in February-April 1948, plus country reports (Viet Nam, India, Malaya, China, Korea, Africa, Mongolia and others). Indonesia is mentioned only in passing: the commission

GA-02792 1949 rel C licensed

Second Women's International Congress, WIDF, Budapest, 1-6 December 1948

Official WIDF account of its Second Women's International Congress, Budapest, 1-6 December 1948 (390 delegates, 51 nations), with preface by Irene Joliot-Curie. It frames women's rights, child welfare and peace against Cold War blocs. Gerwani is not named. Indonesia appears only as a colonial struggle: appeals to end D

GA-00112 1960 Maasje Siwi rel B licensed

GWDS 15 Tahun: Berjuang untuk Kebahagiaan Keluarga dan Perdamaian Dunia

WIDF at 15: Fighting for Family Happiness and World Peace

Api Kartini article (1960) by Maasje Siwi, an Api Kartini staff member who attended the WIDF Council in Warsaw (29 Nov-5 Dec 1960), marking the WIDF's 15th anniversary. Delegates from 61 countries heard Eugenie Cotton review WIDF history (1948 manifesto, 1953 Copenhagen congress, 1955 Lausanne mothers' congress, 1958 V

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);