| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/22/9 |
| Title | 'Women's Advisory Council - United Nations Association' |
| Date | 1922 - 1960 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT) and the Women's Advisory Council of the United Nations Association (UNA) (formerly the League of Nations Union) regarding promoting equal rights for women and campaigning for peace. The WAC was set up partly to keep the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union informed of the opinions of women's organisations for the maintenance of peace and to 'provide a forum for study and exchange of opinion on international affairs'.
The correspondence covers:
NUWT reports of meetings of the WAC
Arrangements for meetings of the WAC
Minutes and agendas for meetings of the WAC
NUWT support for resolutions passed by the WAC
NUWT representation and affiliation to the WAC and UNA
Future of the Women's Advisory Council in the UNA
NUWT protests against their exclusion from a Committee set up by the Association of Education Committees to consider the best methods of inculcating the principles of the League of Nations into the minds of children
Notices of conferences, talks and events organised by the League of Nations and the WAC
Information on the Status of Women Committee, including their calls for Equal Pay for Equal Work
Constitution of the WAC
NUWT donation towards the administrative costs of organising World Children's Day
Agenda and minutes of AGM's of UNA from: 1953; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960
Lists of Resolutions adopted at meetings of UNA
Position of women in the League of Nations - enquiries from NUWT regarding gender equality in posts in the League
NUWT protest over the absence of any female speakers at a meeting of the LNU at the Royal Albert Hall
Maternity convention and request from WAC as to the views of women's organisation on the proposals of this convention
Deputation from the WAC to the Foreign Office on the subject of aerial bombing for police purposes
WAC 'Declaration on the Schools of Britain and the Peace of the World'
Disarmament
Formation of a Welsh WAC
Typed notes 'How to forward the work of the LNU'
'Bringing it home to Mr. Chibley', a League of Nations play in one act by Herbert Bloye, 1925
'Headway in War-Time - the journal of the League of Nations Union', January 1941
Abyssinia - appeal from the WAC following a message from Princess Tsehai of Abyssinia of the suffering of Ethiopians from constant bombing
WAC appeal for funds
Publications and reports:
'A Policy for Disarmament', UNA
NB. A. Muriel Pierotti, Miss H. Grinter, Miss A. Jones and Miss B. N. Isaac were at various times NUWT representatives on the WAC
'World Forum of Youth - souvenir programme', 1949
'League of Nations Union - Statement of Policy', 1938
'Are Refugees an Asset?', Political and Economic Planning |
| Extent | 6 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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