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Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1948), feminist politician, founding member (1945) Eugénie Cotton (1881–1967), scientist, socialist, women's rights advocate, first WIDF president (1945) Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912–1996), resistance member, photojournalist, communist politician, founding member (1945)
The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) is an international women's rights organization. Established in 1945, it was most active during the Cold War when, according to historian Francisca de Haan, it was "the largest and probably most influential international women's organization of the post-1945 era". [1]
Pages in category "Women's International Democratic Federation people" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
She was a co-founder and the first president of the Democratic Federation of Cuban Women, formed in 1948 as an affiliate of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). García was a delegate to the WIDF 1948 Congress in Budapest, the 1949 Conference on Asian Women held in Beijing, and was elected to the 1953 Executive Council of WIDF.
Women's International Democratic Federation – founded in 1945 in Paris, ... Zonta International, founded 1919, NGO Member Council of Europe, UN Consultative status;
Teresa "Trees" Sunito Heyligers, sometimes written as Soenito Heyligers (1915–2003) was a Dutch lawyer and activist. She was the wife of Indonesian activist Raden Mas Djojowirono Sunito and an active member of the Dutch Women's Movement [] and the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF).
Márcia Campos (fl. 1970s) – democratic rights activist, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation; Albertina de Oliveira Costa (born 1943) – feminist activist, member of the Conselho Nacional dos Direitos da Mulher (National Council for Women's Rights) Jaqueline Jesus (born 1978) – LGBT rights activist
After graduating from the University of Havana in 1949, she became active in leftist causes, aimed at revising the Cuban Civil Code and improving women's rights. She was a founder of the Federación Democrática de Mujeres Cubanas (Democratic Federation of Cuban Women), an affiliation of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF ...