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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]
This is a list of people associated with the Women's International Democratic Federation, ... (1910–1987), teacher, delegate to WIDF founding conference in 1945 [25]
Pages in category "Women's International Democratic Federation affiliates" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 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.
She attended numerous women's conferences including the 1975 World Conference on Women hosted in Mexico City, the 1975 Women's International Democratic Federation Congress of Berlin, East Germany, and the 1985 World Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya. She was a vice president of the WIDF from 1975 to 1981, while continuing as the PAWO ...
The Congress of American Women was an American women's rights organization. It was founded in New York on International Women's Day, March 8, 1946, following the 1945 founding conference of the Women's International Democratic Federation in Paris, to which it affiliated.
[3] [4] Stagnation on the topic of women’s rights in the 1950s and 1960s led to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, joined by the NGO Women’s International Democratic Foundation, to pressure the UN General Assembly in 1972 to convene the International Women’s Year Conference, which resulted in the drafting of the Declaration of Mexico.
[13] [17] In October she was chosen to lead the AKSZh, [15] and in November 1945 she was among the Russian delegates attending the founding conference of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). She served as a WIDF vice president until 1968. [18] In 1949, Popova published an English-language book, Women in the Land of Socialism.