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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 ]
Shahnaz Alami , promoted WIDF's idea for International Women's Year to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1972. [21]: 63 Jamileh Sadighi (جمیله صدیقی, 1903-1983), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953. [22] [23]: 75–77
Organisations listed in this category were affiliated to the Women's International Democratic Federation. Pages in category "Women's International Democratic Federation affiliates" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
List of Women's International Democratic Federation people This page was last edited on 6 February 2024, at 23:46 (UTC). Text is ...
The congress was an official US branch of the Women's International Democratic Federation, which though an antifascist organization was pro-Soviet. [2] The organization supported progressive policies giving women full rights and equality both in the home and economically.
People across the globe have come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The March 8 event gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse ...
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.
Campaigns across Britain by the International Women's Day Committee led to an Inaugural Meeting of the National Assembly of Women at St. Pancras Town Hall in London on 8 March 1952, with 1,396 delegates from Wales, Scotland, Tee-side, Bradford, Halifax, Leeds, Lancashire and Yorkshire. These delegates represented a total of 549,700 women from ...