The 11th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was an international women's conference which took place in Berlin in Germany on 17-22 June 1929. It was the eleventh international conference which was arranged under the International Alliance of Women. The conferense was arranged on the theme "The Youth Movement and the Women's Movement", and attracted over 15000 participants. During the 11th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the more global character of the international women's movement, which had become visible since the conference in Rome a few years prior, resulted in issues around the Western dominance within the movement, voiced by the Indian representantive of the National Council of Women in India. Non-Western representatives voiced the need to organize women's movements also in other parts of the world, a need expressed notably by

Saiza Nabarawi Saiza Nabarawi,( ar, سيزا النبراوي) also spelt as Siza Nabrawi or Ceza Nabarawi, (born Zainab Mohamed Mourad Nabarawi, ar, زينب محمد مراد النبراوي), (1897–1985) was an Egyptian journalist educated in Paris, and w ...

. This tendency did have results. The

Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union {{Expand Swedish, Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union, date=March 2022 The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946. It has also be ...

, who participated in the 11th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, was inspired by the Western women's movement to arranged the first women's conference in the Middle East, the

First Eastern Women's Congress First Eastern Women's Congress, also known as First General Congress of Oriental Women and First Oriental Women's Congress was an international women's conference which took place in Damascus in Syria between 3 July and 10 July 1930. The conference ...

1930. The Pan-Pacific Women's Association was founded in 1930 to organize the women of the Pacific hemisphere, in turn leading to the All-Asian Women's Conference in India in 1931.Broome, Sarah (2012-08-01). "Stri-Dharma: Voice of the Indian Women's Rights Movement 1928-1936". History Theses. doi:10.57709/3075581

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