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From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights: Gender, Violence and International Law in the Women's International Democratic Federation Mission to North Korea, 1951

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

CELIA DONERT
CELIA DONERT*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Liverpool, 8–14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ; chdonert@liverpool.ac.uk
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Abstract

In May 1951 the Women's International Democratic Federation – a communist-sponsored non-governmental organisation – sent an all-female international commission to investigate the war crimes and atrocities allegedly committed by United Nations forces against civilians during the military occupation of North Korea in late 1950. Communist internationalism has been relatively marginalised in the recent wave of scholarship on internationalism and international organisations. This article uses the Women's International Democratic Federation mission to Korea to analyse how the shifting relationship between communist internationalism, human rights and feminism played out in the ‘Third World’ during the early Cold War.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 25 , Issue 2: Agents of Internationalism , May 2016 , pp. 313 - 333
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