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GA-02784 1954 rel B licensed

WIDF, 'I Want To Live: Ban Atomic Weapons' (1954)

WIDF pamphlet 'I Want To Live' (Berlin, May 1954) campaigning to ban atomic weapons after the March 1954 Bikini H-bomb test, with Hiroshima testimonies, the Stockholm Appeal and WIDF appeals. Page 25 cites a resolution of 1 April 1954 in Jakarta by the National Congress of the 'Indonesian Women's Democratic Organisatio

GA-02839 1956 WIDF rel C licensed

Appeal to the Women of Asia and Africa (WIDF Council, Peking, 1956)

WIDF Council (Peking, 24-30 April 1956) 'Appeal to the Women of Asia and Africa', with a side item on a European girls' conference in Paris. The appeal salutes anticolonial struggles, welcomes the Bandung principles, and opposes the Baghdad and SEATO pacts and nuclear tests. Indonesia and Gerwani are not named.

GA-00114 1959 S. Djin rel C licensed

Wanita Amerika Latin Membela Kehidupan

Latin American Women Defend Life

Api Kartini article (1959) by S. Djin on Latin American women's movements: the first Latin American Women's Congress in Santiago, Chile (November 1959), electricity-rate protests in Argentina, equal-pay demands in Chile, the Cuban women's conference, and anti-nuclear petitions in Colombia. Compares them to Asian-Africa

GA-02787 1966 rel A licensed

Appell für Solidarität mit GERWANI und den Frauen Indonesiens (Seruan Solidaritas dengan Gerwani dan Perempuan Indonesia), WIDF, 1966

Appeal for Solidarity with Gerwani and the Women of Indonesia (WIDF Bureau, June 1966)

WIDF Bureau appeal (Berlin, 2-5 June 1966), German original with English translation and notes by Faye Chan (2015). It states that tens of thousands of Indonesian women were murdered or are held and tortured, that Gerwani's leaders and several thousand members were arrested, and that Gerwani and other women's organisat