International Congress of Women

…1904 she helped found the International Congress of Women and in 1920 was chosen its vice president. She also was active in the field of public health and was awarded an honorary M.D. degree by the University of Berlin in 1932. Exiled from Nazi Germany five years later, she went…

… and others who attended the International Congress of Women at The Hague in April 1915. At the time, speaking out against the war was considered radical and unpatriotic, and some members of the Women’s Peace Party paid a high price for their sentiments. The economist Emily Greene Balch lost her…