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International Women’s Day And WILPF
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In this episode of Community Chest, Dominik hosts Nicola Pratt and Margaret Finn to discuss International Women's Day. The programme covers the day's 20th-century origins, the history of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and local events in Norwich and at UEA. The recording also features a discussion on the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo.
Dominik hosts a programme featuring Nicola Pratt and Margaret Finn to discuss International Women's Day. Nicola Pratt explains the day's 20th-century origins regarding women's pay and conditions, and its 1975 UN designation. Margaret Finn discusses the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), founded in 1915 to stop World War One, and mentions a women-only event at the Friends Meeting House in Norwich. The recording also includes a guest discussing the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo and efforts to establish a WILPF group there. Dominik plays music exclusively by women artists, including Raduza and Zemfira, the latter chosen because the day's significance first emerged in Russian-controlled countries.
Topics
- Origins and perception of International Women's Day
- The mission and structure of WILPF
- Local events in Norwich and at UEA for International Women's Day
- Conflict and women's rights in the Congo
- International solidarity and global women's issues
Participants
- Dominik
- Nicola Pratt
- Margaret Finn
- Unidentified speaker
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I've only been feminist for about the last 10, 15 years, but even when I was little, I must have had sort of proto-feminist leanings because I always hated the International Women's Day because all it all it was was basically you know men bought women chocolates and flowers and you know and you know and of course the famous.
Is the oldest women's peace organization in the world? It was founded in 1915 by a group of women who tried desperately to stop World War One, and they didn't succeed, but.
Voices stood out and have been in contact with women in the Congo to set up a WILPF group there, so that they begin to be empowered to look after themselves better in their own community, and that is what.