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Washington Women's Rights Convention of 1869, Washington, D.C., twelfth in the series; International Congress of Women, general heading used since 1878 with the International Congress of Women's Rights, Paris; Jewish Women's Congress, 1893, Chicago, Illinois; First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, 1895, Boston, Massachusetts
The International Congress Calendar is a calendar of events organized by non-profit international organizations, mainly those organizations which are included in the Yearbook of International Organizations. It has been published since 1960 by the Union of International Associations (UIA) and includes over 425,000 meetings. Over 15,000 new ...
The nonprofit Vital Voices Global Partnership grew out of the U.S. government's Vital Voices Democracy Initiative. The Vital Voices Democracy Initiative was established in 1997 by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, following the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to promote the advancement of women as a ...
The First International Congress of Women's Rights convened in Paris in 1878 upon the occasion of the third Paris World's Fair.An historic event attended by many representatives, seven resolutions were passed at the meeting, beginning with the idea that "the adult woman is the equal of the adult man". [2]
October 18–20: Fifth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Sansom Street Hall in Philadelphia. [5] 1855. October 17–18: Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati. [5] 1856. November 25–26: Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention held in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. [5] 1858
Over the next few years it expanded to Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. In 1982 it became international with the addition of the United Kingdom and was renamed the International Women's Forum in 1987. [2] It is active in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East as well as the United ...
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In 1972, the United Nations proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year. [7] In the spirit of that proclamation, U.S. President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11832, creating a National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year "to promote equality between men and women." Jill Ruckelshaus would be appointed its first ...