Women's International Democratic Federation
Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) is an international organization working for women's rights. WIDF was founded in Paris in 1945.[1][2] It was one of the largest and "probably most influential international women's organizations of the post-1945 era."[3] The main areas of concern initially identified by WIDF were anti-fascism, world peace, child welfare and improving the status of women.[4] During the Cold War years, it was described as Communist-leaning[5] and pro-Soviet.[6][7][8] International Day for Protection of Children, observed in many countries as Children's Day on June 1 since 1950, is said to have been established by the Federation on its November 1949 congress in Moscow.[9][10]
The secretariat of WIDF is based in São Paulo, Brazil.[11] Philippine Congresswoman, Liza Maza, is the regional coordinator of WIDF in Asia.[12]
Affiliates
- Congress of American Women
- All-China Women's Federation
- National Assembly of Women
- Democratic Women's League of Germany
- National Union of Sahrawi Women
See also
- International Communist Women's Secretariat
- International Socialist Women's Conferences
- Socialist International Women
Other post-1945 Communist front groups
- International Association of Democratic Lawyers
- International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists
- International Organization of Journalists
- International Union of Students
- World Federation of Democratic Youth
- World Federation of Scientific Workers
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- World Peace Council
Footnotes
- ↑ Peter Duignan; Lewis H. Gann (1996). The rebirth of the West: the Americanization of the democratic world, 1945-1958. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-8476-8198-3. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (1 June 1997). Eternal vigilance?: 50 years of the CIA. Frank Cass. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-0-7146-4807-1. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ de Haan, Francisca. "The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991". Women and Social Movements, International-1840 to Present. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ "Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) Records, 1945-1979". Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections. Sophia Smith College. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Kate Weigand (7 October 2002). Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation. JHU Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-8018-7111-5. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ Peter Duignan; Lewis H. Gann (1994). Communism in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Reappraisal. Hoover Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8179-3712-6. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ Gerald J. Bender; James S. Coleman; Richard L. Sklar (25 September 1985). African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy. University of California Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-520-05628-2. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ Robyn Rowland (1984). Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7102-0296-3. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ↑ Children's Day
- ↑ Cooke, Susan (20 November 2015). "Make Every Day a Children's Day". South Coast Herald. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Women's International Democratic Federation. Contato
- ↑ Women's International Democratic Federation. Comitê de Direção FDIM – 2007 – 2011
External links
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- Latest version of the WIDF website (Dec.14, 2012) on the Wayback Machine. Only available in Portuguese.
- Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) Records, 1945-1979 Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College