The International Congress of Women was created so that groups of existing women's suffrage movements could come together with other women's groups around the world. It served as a way for women organ
The officers of the U.S. National and International Council of Women at the congress held in Berlin, Germany in June, 1904. In the front row, the women seated at the tables (left to right), are Helene Lange, Ishbel Aberdeen, Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Sewall, Camille Vidart, and Teresa F. Wilson.
Eugénie Hamer
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Eugénie Hamer was a Belgian journalist, writer and activist. Her father and brother served in the Belgian military, but she was a committed pacifist. Involved in literary and women's social reform act
Hamer in 1915
International Congress of Women in 1915. left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian – Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka, 3. Laura Hughes – Canada, 4. Rosika Schwimmer – Hungary, 5. Anika Augspurg – Germany, 6. Jane Addams – USA, 7. Eugénie Hamer – Belgium, 8. Aletta Jacobs – Netherlands, 9. Chrystal Macmillan – UK, 10. Rosa Genoni – Italy, 11. Anna Kleman – Sweden, 12. Thora Daugaard – Denmark, 13. Louise Keilhau – Norway
Belgian delegation to the 1915 Congress of Women in The Hague, Hamer seated on right