ISTANBUL CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 18

ISTANBUL CONFERENCE

LADY ASTOR *ND SUFFRAGE

(From ;"The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, April 13.

Lady Astor,. MJEV is going to Istanbul, to ioin the British delegation to the twelfth congress of the International Alliance of, Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship. Equal enfranchisement,' equal status, and education in citizenship are among ithe: aims of the alliance, and the congress is de^ voting a;%essioiiV,'at which Lady Astor \yiU speak, to _the status of women via.der different forms of government. : "Ladjr ,Astor also intends to take the opportunity of studying at first hand the altered position of women in the Near East - -•■.

In an appeal for £2250 to meet not oWy- thelineyitable'bJeavy. expenses an, mternatibnal congress entails, but to cany out tbe prbgramme,;^ toe-ebmmit tee" remarked:-^ , "''%.i-y+:r %'^' *': !

be they'ever so wise in tijeDM^yes.s achieve little^; 'We rimember; the' sacrifice^ of .she pioneers in this moyement''aria dare not let' slip what theS '~^woipr M'Sie^ pf<:the'.fact; tiiat the League oiPNa'flons how; Constantlisr appeals lor the cooperation: "61/ women's organisations in social- reforms and in" all aspects of good understanding between countries, it is essential that womrarofdifferenfrnatipns should meet to.work in harmony for necessary reformsi^ ■:'•,:■. •' ■■■'■ t': -■-:■■•■ '■ ■'.

"Faji\play," and good conditions for: women''in indiistries and the professions, a resolute advance ;in crushing the traffic in, wome^ri for immoral pur-: poses^anitiier drugs"which poison the race, changing'old "legal codes which, hamper and. ",dp jiot, protect wife, mother,;. and'work&- :;i Such are some of our tasks."" ' "" ' ,