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The Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference was an anti-imperialist meeting held in Cairo, Egypt in 1957. 45 African and Asian countries sent delegates, which was twice as many countries as the earlier Bandung Conference had. In addition, women had a more prominent role at this congress than at Bandung. The congress condemned the imperialist West and established the Afro-Asian Federation for Women and Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation.[1]
Resolutions[edit | edit source]
The conference agreed that women should be able to control whether they marry. It demanded the abolition of polygamy as well as equal pay for equal work.[1]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Cairo' (pp. 52–59). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]