The International Abolitionist Federation, founded in Liverpool in 1875, aimed to abolish state regulation of prostitution and fought the international traffic in women in prostitution. It was origina
Isabelle Bogelot
…des libérées de Saint-Lazare propelled her to the international scene, where she represented the organisation at various events: 1884: Congress of the International Abolitionist Federation in Basel; 1885: International Penitentiary Congress in Rome…
Attendees at an IAF Conference in Geneva, c. 1900
Josephine Butler, founder of the IAF
James Stansfeld, general secretary of the federation
Alison Neilans was the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) general secretary in the 1920s.