Papers of Meredith Stokes, 1971-1997

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Papers of Meredith Stokes, 1971-1997

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225825519

The collection consists principally of secondary material relating to a wide range of issues relating to women, human rights and the environment. It includes some correspondence, circular letters, newsheets, articles and speeches, conference documents, printed ephemera, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous journals. There are a few pages of notes written by Stokes on different topics, and two published poems and the draft of an article by her also. The activities and publications of several organisations are documented in the collection. They include the Women's Electoral Lobby, the Canberra and South-East Region Environment Centre, the Canberra Programme for Peace, Canberra Women for Survival, the Registry of Women Artists, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section) and the Committees in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean.

1.84 m. (13 boxes) + 17 folio items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074187

Libraries Australia

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Stokes, Meredith, 1940-

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Peace activist and feminist. Stokes has been associated with the women's movement and various organisations and fora of nonviolence activists over many years. She has also been involved in broadcasts for the Canberra community radio station 2XX. From the description of Papers of Meredith Stokes [manuscript]. 1971-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825519 ...

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...