The Peace Palace Library is pleased to present the Commemoration Lecture "Organizing for Peace: Bertha von Suttner, Dr. Aletta Jacobs and the International Congress of Women at The Hague". This Spring, we celebrated the Centenary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in the Peace Palace. This organization arose from the International Congress of Women that took place in The Hague in 1915. Dr. Aletta Jacobs, a famous Dutch suffragist and the first medical doctor in The Netherlands, initiated this important international peace meeting for women a year into World War I as a way to publicly protest the war as well to develop resolutions on international arbitration and dispute settlement. A hundred years later, on April 25, 2015, Dr. Aletta Jacobs became the second woman in history to be honored with a bust in the main hall of the Peace Palace for her efforts and work for peace. The first woman to be honored with a bust was Austrian peace activist Bertha von Suttner during the Peace Palace centenary in 2013. Dr. Aletta Jacobs and Bertha von Suttner first met during the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899. This Commemoration Lecture will focus on their work, their life and legacy and the many women they inspired and who helped to make the International Congress of Women in 1915 a reality.
dinsdag 16 juni
van 17:00 tot 20:00
At the Peace Palace Library.
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