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WIDF, 10th Anniversary of the Women's International Democratic Federation (1955)
WIDF commemorative booklet (Berlin, 1955) for its tenth anniversary: history from the 1945 Paris founding congress, peace and anti-atom campaigns, the 1953 Copenhagen Congress, children's work, the 1955 Lausanne World Congress of Mothers. Page 28 states that in Indonesia 'the women's organization which had 6,000 members in 1951 brought more than 500,000 together in 1955' (unnamed, presumably Gerwani); Indonesian infant mortality is cited at Copenhagen.
Buklet peringatan WIDF (Berlin, 1955) pada ulang tahun kesepuluh: sejarah sejak kongres pendirian Paris 1945, kampanye perdamaian dan anti-atom, Kongres Kopenhagen 1953, kerja untuk anak, Kongres Ibu Sedunia Lausanne 1955. Halaman 28 menyebut di Indonesia 'organisasi perempuan yang beranggota 6.000 pada 1951 menghimpun lebih dari 500.000 pada 1955' (tanpa nama, kemungkinan Gerwani); angka kematian bayi Indonesia disebut di Kopenhagen.
“p.28: 'In Indonesia the women's organization which had 6,000 members in 1951 brought more than 500,000 together in 1955.'”
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- 1955
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- organisational document (WIDF / international women's movement record)
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- Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
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- International (WIDF)
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- 1955–1959
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- Alexander Street - Women and Social Movements (WASI / Modern Empires WASG) via Columbia proxy · source link
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.11 WIDF and International Women's Movement Records › WIDF and WFTU publications (1949-1967) - pamphlets, letters and reports (Alexander Street WASI)
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