The notion of an International Women's Peace Congress grew out of both the Women's Peace Party
and the idea touted by Dutch suffragist Aletta Jacobs
of bringing European women together. She wanted international discussion among...
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1882: Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs opened the...
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1882
Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs
opened the world's first contraceptive clinic in Amsterdam.
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15-21 June 1913: The Congress of the International Women's...
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28 April-1 May 1915: At the International Women's Peace Congress...
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28 April-1 May 1915
At the International Women's Peace Congress in The Hague, thirteen hundred women delegates from twelve countries founded the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace
; it became the Women's International League for Peace...