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GA-02821 1947 WIDF rel C licensed

WIDF Bulletin (1947): Indonesia, Dutch aggression and women's solidarity

WIDF Bulletin 1947: Indonesia, Dutch aggression and women's solidarity

WIDF Bulletin, 1947: French Friends of Peace conference, plus an 'Indonesia' item quoting a letter from the Secretariat of the Indonesian Women's Congress on the Dutch colonial war. It says all women's organisations back the Republic, women take part in the fighting, thanks Dutch women's groups for protesting, and asks

GA-02822 1947 WIDF rel C licensed

WIDF Bulletin (1947): Two New Requests for Affiliation to the WIDF

WIDF Bulletin 1947: two new requests for affiliation (Netherlands, Indonesia)

WIDF Bulletin no. 12 (1947): news digest from women's organisations worldwide. Section IV announces two requests for WIDF affiliation, from the Netherlands women's movement and from the Pan-Indonesian Women's Congress (Java, June 1946), which seeks to unite with democratic women's groups abroad. Other items cover Spain

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-02827 1952 WIDF rel C licensed

Message to the Executive Committee of the WIDF (1952): Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive message 1952: Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive Committee message (1952) calling women worldwide to prepare for the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 5 December 1952, and to demand an end to the Korean war, arms reduction, banning of atomic and bacteriological weapons, and a Pact of Peace. Signatories include Eugénie Cotton and others; Darmin

GA-02783 1953 rel C licensed

As One! For Equality, For Happiness, For Peace: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953

As One! For Equality, For Happiness, For Peace: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen 1953

Report volume (WIDF, Berlin, 1953) on the World Congress of Women, Copenhagen, 5-10 June 1953: reports, speeches, documents, resolutions and the officers elected. Gerwani and Gerwis are not named. Indonesia appears in the congress report (p. 4), which says its 10 delegates and observers came from six organisations, one

GA-02841 1957 WIDF rel C licensed

Helsinki Welcomes the WIDF Council (1957)

WIDF magazine 1957 report on the WIDF Council meeting in Helsinki, 22-27 June 1957: Finnish hospitality, Palace of Culture built by volunteer labour, reports by Eugénie Cotton, Branca Fialho, Molly Keith and Elisa Uriz, a new draft constitution and call to the Fourth Congress, and resolution on nuclear tests and women'

GA-00057 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Berita dari Sana Sini (Api Kartini, 1959)

News from Here and There (Api Kartini, December 1959)

Api Kartini (December 1959) news-roundup column. Notes the Kungalv (Sweden) women's disarmament conference attended by A. Hidayat, a Gerakan Ibu protest letter to the UN on French A-bomb tests, Jakarta preparations for the 50th International Women's Day (lectures among peasant women, bazaar), and a DPP Gerwani work mee

GA-00070 1959 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Persiapan Peringatan Setengah Abad Hari Wanita Internasional

Preparations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of International Women's Day

Api Kartini item on preparations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of International Women's Day (March 1960) in Indonesia. Carries a message from Ny. Aruji Kartawinata, chair of the Indonesian committee, to the international preparatory committee, linking Kartini's ideals to the 1910 Copenhagen resolutions and listing plann

GA-00111 1959 Kukilowarsi rel C licensed

Menengok Sejenak ke Belakang

A Brief Look Back

Article by Kukilowarsi (1959) for 17 August, recalling women's roles in the Indonesian revolution: 1926 rebels and Digul exiles, anti-Japanese resistance, women's guerrilla brigades, Red Cross and kitchens, and stories of Suparmi and a mother fighter. It cites the first women's congress of 1928, the 1955 vote, and dema

GA-02857 1961 Yvonne Quiles rel C licensed

Hand in Hand: Cairo plays host to the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference (Yvonne Quiles, 1961)

Hand in Hand: Cairo hosts the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference (Quiles, 1961)

Special report by Yvonne Quiles in WIDF's magazine (1961) on the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo (January 1961, ~200 delegates, 50 countries): anticolonial denunciations, calls for solidarity and disarmament, a resolution on a liaison body and journal, debates on women's rights and personal status. Indones

GA-02798 1969 rel C licensed

WIDF, Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation, 1964-1969 (appendix)

WIDF Activities 1964-1969 (appendix to Sixth Congress report)

Chronological appendix (1969) to the WIDF activity report for the Sixth Congress, listing 1964-69 activities: Viet Nam and Middle East solidarity, peace and disarmament meetings, women's rights seminars, rights of the child, attendance at national congresses, Bureau and Council meetings, UN agency work and publications

GA-02800 1975 rel C licensed

7th WIDF Congress, International Women's Year: Equality, Development, Peace (Berlin, 26 October 1975)

7th WIDF Congress, International Women's Year, Berlin 1975

Published proceedings of the 7th Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), Berlin, 26 October 1975: opening and general-secretary addresses (Aruna Asaf Ali, Fanny Edelman), the report on WIDF work since the 1969 Helsinki congress, finance and credentials reports, the Prospective Plan to 1980 a