A PROPOSED WOMAN'C CHARTER

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 9

A PROPOSED WOMAN'C CHARTER

lo be pit sented to the Peace Cull gress, sitting in Paris, January iij, K)K), and to be recommended t«* the consideration of the League of \a--1 ions, if such a body is formed. i That courts be sot up, especial I \ in the East of Europe, to trace and rescue missing women captured, stolen, <»i deported and to establish the r» sponsibility foi these outrages, it being manifestly impossible for the relatives of injured women, mam of whom are the humblest peasants, to bring cases and provide evident e themselves for the recovery of their women. j. That in all the newly-freed terri torus, and in all the lands whose in tegrity has to be guaranteed bv the Great Powers, some sort of official machinery to be determined within the territory itself be set up to enable unenfranchised women to set f rth their ne«ds, and to protect their interes's in regard to social conditions and legislation. ■>, That .ill customs, whether social, religous, or domestic, which entail the sale, barter or disposal of women and girls in marriage or otherwise

without their consent at a mature age, be decreed to bo outside international Jhw, and that any woman or girl victims of such (lAtoms, <u am fii»n(G on their behalf, may mak« appeal for their protection to the laws and enact ments under which traffn in human slaves has been abolished.

4. That the nationality of women shall lx- placed in a position of independence as absolute as that of men, without regard to any such consider;!

lions as marriage, or the naturalisation oi denaturalisation ol husbands, .nad that nothing but a woman’s own deliberate choice and declaration shall affect her nationality.

5. That the same recognition and protection at < orded to < laitns put to ward bv nationalities or by Labo accorded to these demands of civilsed women for their sex.

THE VOTER’S COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Ins Suffragii