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Women's Transnational Organizing: Feminist and Humanitarian Interventions in the League of Nations' Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
| This paper examines how a small group of Armenian, Danish and British women used modern women’s networks, such as those developed as part of the women’s rights movement, and those committed to peace, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, to lobby the League of Nations to fund and provide humanitarian assistance to Armenian female and child refugees in the Near East after the Great War and the Armenian Genocide. The paper examines Armenian, Danish and British women’s exchanges and activities as transnational efforts to exert women’s influence upon the international body of the League of Nations. The paper investigates the extent to which women were able to influence the League of Nations’ policies and queries whether women’s involvement created “women-friendly” policies towards the Armenian refugees in the Near East. The sources used include documents from the archives of the League of Nations, letters from Armenian, Danish and British organizations, the published reports of the Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East, and testimonies by Armenian refugees.
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