Union of Argentine Women

Acronym: UMA
Original name: Unión de Mujeres de la Argentina
Type: foreign women's organisation
Country: Argentina
Also written as: Union of Argentine Women (Union de Mujeres Argentinas); Union of Argentine Women; UMA

1949 – 1963

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GA-02410 1949-11-30 rel C licensed

Interest Focused on Asian Women Confab (FBIS, 30 Nov 1949)

FBIS, 30 November 1949: Interest focused on Asian Women's Conference

FBIS monitored New China News Agency report (30 Nov 1949) on worldwide preparations for the Asian Women's Conference in Peking (opening 6 Dec). Notes Indonesian women's delegation to Peking, funded partly by women's groups in Italy, Belgium and Austria, and Dutch women protesting the colonial war. Context for WIDF-link

GA-00098 1963 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Kekuatan Baru: Gerakan Wanita Argentina

A New Force: The Argentine Women's Movement

Api Kartini (1963) article on the Argentine women's movement, chiefly the Union of Argentine Women's work: its magazine Nuestras Mujeres, campaigns for school milk, price cuts, mothers' law, solidarity with strikers and Cuba, literacy courses, and a fifth congress with 220 delegates. Includes a 'Varia' note on Sudanese