Adrienne van Melle-Hermans dating history

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Adrienne Cécile Marie Hermans better known as Adrienne van Melle-Hermans (25 April 1931 – 23 August 2007) was a Dutch peace activist. 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. She participated in three of the United Nations Conferences on Women: in Copenhagen, 1980, Nairobi, 1985 and Beijing, 1995. In 1991, she campaigned against the rape of women in the former Yugoslavia. She was an active representative of Scouting Nederland until she turned 70. In 2005, Adrienne van Melle-Hermans, was one of the Dutch women nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize.