[Women, Equal Rights for. ] "Annual Meeting of Women's Consultative Committee of the League of Nations." Information Bulletin from Committee of Representatives of Women's International Organizations, created in accordance with a resolution of the Council of the League of Nations, Hotel de Russie, Geneva, September 29, 1936.
- Four leaves, 13"x 8.5". Mimeographed (?) Printed on cheap newsprint. Paper browned and brittle, and heavily chipped at top. Fair condition. 10 or so short tears are repaired on reverse with archival Japanese tissue paper. NO copies located in WorldCat. Rare. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their rubber stamp on the back of leaf 4. $500
This is a resolution presented to the League of Nations in September 29, 1936 (addressed to the president of the Seventeenth Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Saavedra Lamas [Argentina, 187801959]) on the subject of adopting equal rights for women in the League's covenants. This was a combined meeting of the International Council of Women, Louise C.A. Van Eeghan (Holland) and Renee Girod (Switzerland); Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Madeleine G. Doty with Lola Maverick Lloyd, (USA); Inter American Commission of Women, Abby Scott Baker and Alice Paul (USA), with Leonor Cespedes (Columbia). Also: Equal Rights International, Juanita Frances (England), Helene Granitsch (Austria), Linda P. Littlejohn (Australia), Lilian von Matsch (Austria); and the All Asian Conference of Women, Rosa Welt Straus (Palestine).
There are four major points: (1) "...no distinction based on sex in their law" among members of the League of Nations; (2) "...the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the ground of sex"; (3) "...men and women shall have equal rights in all other fields"; (4) "...men and women shall both be members with full voting powers of all delegations to the Council and assembly of the League..."
Unfortunately, the proposal was not considered by the League.
WITH:
"Information Bulletin" (October 12, 1936) from Lola Maverick Lloyd (Chair) and Lillian von Matsch of the above-mentioned Committee of Representatives of Women's International Organizations, recognizing that their communication on equal rights for women being adopted as part of the League covenants was not accepted by the League ("the Bureau nas not found it possible to consider at this session") but that it be considered in the next regular session of the Assembly. This document then goes on to repeat the equal rights request of the September document.
("Louise van Eeghen was the daughter of the entrepreneur and politician Samuel van Eeghen and lady Olga van Loon. She was first educated at home and then attended a boarding school in Geneva. She studied for several years at the Sorbonne and at the University of Geneva.In 1920 she was elected to the board of the International Council of Women. From 1920 to 1938 she visited more than 34 countries around the world in that position. She reported on her travels in Het Handelsblad, the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and De Vrijheid, and by giving lectures. She was also a board member of the World Federation of Churches."--Wikipedia)
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