Le congrès mondial des mères

This book provides lengthy excerpts taken from the Worldwide Congress of Mothers, which met in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1955. The conference focused on the overlapping themes of motherhood, human rights, and world peace and included women from sixty-six countries. The work contains eight chapters: the first outlines the purpose of the conference and the second gives detailed information on participants' national origins and the context of women's rights in the sixty-six nations represented. The third chapter discusses the steps taken to work through differences in opinion and belief in the spirit of fostering unanimity toward the goals of world peace and human rights. The fourth chapter examines women's rights and women's lives, including an analysis of the professions of women serving on the board of the Congress. The fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters are dedicated to outlining a pacifist agenda including a plan for the equal and amicable sharing of the earth's resources. The final chapter reinforces women, and particularly mothers, as agents of worldwide pacifism.