Adrienne van Melle-Hermans

She is remembered for opposing racist attitudes towards immigrants and for establishing contact with women from Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

In 1979 in The Hague, van Melle-Hermans was a co-founder of Vrouwen voor Vrede (VVS), the Dutch branch of the international movement Women for Peace.

[2] In 2005, Adrienne van Melle-Hermans, was one of the Dutch women nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[3] In March 1983 she arranged for a Dutch delegation to participate in the women's demonstration in Brussels known at STAR: Stop the Arms Race.

She also participating in raising funding for a therapy centre for traumatized women in Bosia (1994) and in creating an initiative calling for the end of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

[3] She is remembered for opposing racist attitudes towards immigrants and for establishing contact with women from Eastern Europe during the Cold War.