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Report written by Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch and Alice Hamliton on the outcome of the International Congress of Women. This congress, also known as the Women's Peace Congress was held in the Hague. It was a key point in the emergence of the women's peace movement, marking the foundation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. More than 1200 delegates from 12 countries discussed proposals to end WW1 through negotiation. Two of the authors of this report on its outcome, Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, would later receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The LSE library Archives holds the papers of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section.

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  • Title: Women at the Hague
  • Creator: Jane Addams 1860-1935, Emily Greene Balch 1867-1961, Alice Hamilton
  • Date Created: 1915
  • Type: Book
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Original Source: LSE Library

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