Timeline of Black, Migrant and Refugee organisations

Portrait of Cisca Pattipilohy
Portrait of Cisca Pattipilohy, she was active at ZAMI and involved in IIAV's projects, among others. 2000, photographer: Jet Budelman, Collection IAV-Atria

What are key moments in the history of the Black, Migrant and Refugee Women's Movement in the Netherlands? Check them out in this timeline and click through to more information in our bibliotheek en archief.

1950s - 1960s:

1952: Federation Kaum Ibu Protestan Maluku di Belanda (FKIMPB)/ FIKIM
From 1980: Perkumpulan Kaum Ibu Kristen Indjili Maluku (PIKIM).
Federation of Christian Mothers / Moluccan Christian Women's Movement

1970s:

1975: Stichting Belangen Behartiging Surinaamse Vrouwen (SBBSV)

1975 - 1995: Hollanda Türkiye Kadinlar Birligi (HTKB) (from 1985: ATKB)
Turkish women's association in the Netherlands

1976: Moroccan Women's Committee

1979: National Activity Group for Moluccan Women Kelompok Aktivitas Umum Untuk Wanita Wanita Maluku. From 1983/1984: Kelompok
Another feminist organisation grew alongside and out of Kelompok: Gerakan Wanita Wanita Pattimura (Women's Movement Pattimura)

1979: Association of Papua Women Netherlands

1980s:

1980: Caribbean women's group Ashanti

1982 - 1990: Women and Minorities Projects (VEM projects)
From national government to stimulate local organisation formation

1982: Moroccan Women's Association of the Netherlands (MVVN) (p. 97 - CV)

1982: Black Women and Racism Foundation
Black Women's Telephone Project

1982: Yasmin, women's centre in The Hague

1983: Statement Julia da Lima at Winter University Women's Studies

1983 - 1987: National Black Women's Group (LZV)
Various urban operating groups that together formed a movement and came together on National Black Women's Days

1983 - 1996: National Association of Single Arab Women (LVAAV)

1983: Plataforma di Organisashonnan Arubano i Antiano (POA)
National Aruban and Antillean welfare organisation becomes the first Antillean association to have a consultant on women's gender equality

1983: National Federation of Surinamese Women's Affairs (LFSVZ)
From 1997: Multicultural Institute for Participation and Integration (MIPP)

1984: Surinamese Women's Collective

1984: Sister Outsider, a black lesbian group

1984 - 1986: Black Women's Radio

1984?: SUHO Women - working group of Surinamese Homosexuals

1985: UN World Women Conference Nairobi

1985: book presentation Black on the Move

1986 - 1991: Black and Migrant Women's Centre Flamboyant

1986: National Organisation of Surinamese Women (LOSV)

1987: Surant - Surinamese Antillean Women's House

?: Union Muhe Antiano (UMA) Netherlands
Association of female students active from the Vrije Universiteit campus in the 1980s

1987 / 1988: Komitee Zelfstandig Verblijfsrecht for Migrant Women

1989: Network Black and Migrant Women with higher education and special expertise (Network ZMV)

1989: Strange Fruit
Working group of the COC

1990s:

1990: 40 municipalities support Meeting Centres 'foreign' women.

1991: Zami

1991: National Antillean and Aruban Women's Organisation (LAAVO)

1991: Mama Foundation
For newly arrived single Antillean and Aruban women

May-June 1992: bell hooks guest professor Belle van Zuylen chair University of Utrecht

1992: Project Pattipilohy - IIAV

1993: Turkish women's telephone

1993: Network Inter-Ethnic Women's Studies(NEWS)

1993: Black Orchid
Self-organisation of lesbian black and migrant women

1994: Tiye International
Umbrella organisation of national organisations of Black and Migrant women

1994: Project Aisa
1998: Merger with other organisations into E-Quality

1995: UN World Conference on Women in Beijing

1995: Stichting Zwaluw, Intercultural and multicultural Platform of Women Refugee Organisations in the Netherlands (PVON)

?: Expertise centre GEM - Utrecht University

1996: Conference Dancing on the Thinking Floor

1996: Project Onderbelicht
Information provision in the field of Black, Migrant and Refugee Women

1996: Multicultural gender equality Centre

1998: E-Quality, Experts in gender and ethnicity
2012: merger with Aletta to form Atria

1998?: Afro European Women's Movement Sophiedela

1999: Women's Empowerment Centre

From 2000:

2003 - 2005: PaVEM committee

2004: Black Affairs Women Netherlands (ZZVN)
From 2009: Ethnic Affairs Women Netherlands (EZVN)

2005: first Participation Team (P-team)
2010: incorporated into E-Quality

2007: Her History - IIAV

2010: Black, Migrant and Refugee Women Oral History project - IIAV

2010: Back in a bite Oral History project - IIAV

Sounding board and advice: Nancy Jouwe.

This timeline is a first draft to clearly map out the key moments of the history of the Black, Migrant and Refugee Women's Movement.

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