United Nations

JA 's first job was as a librarian at the UN Information Centre. After that she became features editor on the US pulp fiction magazine Argosy (not to be confused with the British periodical The...

She lost these positions in 1972 as a consequence of her second published book, whose Arabic title means Women and Sex. After that NES lectured at universities around the world and both served as...

Only union members were allowed to work in films, so BR worked first for two months as a film cleaner, running a carbon tetrachloride cloth over reels of negative, before she was able to become...

Overall, however, The Gadfly was a success to a degree that not one of ELV 's subsequent novels could achieve. She did not learn about its popularity in Europe, especially in the Soviet Union...

A group of women organized by DR and the international Mothers' Committee presented the Mothers' Declaration to the United Nations in New York.

This was an impetus towards the establishment of the UN 's Commission on the Status of Women . DR was also involved with the United Nations at several other points in her career.

BR 's politics were left-leaning, if not as optimistic as those of her staunchly Socialist father. She had the distinction of having been thrown out of two countries with diametrically opposed oppressive regimes, South Africa...

This is a novel almost without women. The job in the title was named after George Ponsonby, a United Nations investigator in Java, who had died by accident, mowed down by an out-of-control tractor...

BR became a maker of documentary films, dealing especially with children's issues; she worked on her films between novels. Valentine Cunningham in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography singles out for mention her Dear Mum...

EH published a 24-page explanatory pamphlet about United Nations terminology for the status of colonies: What are Trustee Nations? in the Background Books series.

She explained the nature of UN Trusteeship, a programme first established by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations from which it sprang.

The account of Laos (titled from the fact that the traveller sustained damage to a foot) is another outright political pamphlet.DM writes here of a people and a culture which delighted her, but which...

Earlier international travel by NES included her participation in the UN global conference for women at Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1980 and a conference on censorship at London in 1985.

Later came her exciting and stressful, work-related travels. She visited to Indonesia on behalf of the United Nations, where she moved out of the hotel room booked for her to live in a village. She...

BR 's travels as a filmmaker have already been mentioned, from her visit to Java while working on a 1969 documentary on agriculture for the United Nations . She went on a visit to...