1980: an overview

Women in Copenhagen

Twenty-two Ukrainian women comprising the delegation of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations took part in the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum held concurrently with the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen this summer.

The stated aim of the delegation was to focus on the defense of Ukrainian women political prisoners and their families, and to protest Soviet violations of human and political rights in Ukraine.

To this end, the members of the delegation staged a hunger strike in solidarity with women political prisoners in Ukraine, held a press conference, gave numerous interviews and conducted a workshop. The latter event, which was disrupted by women from Latin America, was one example of the politicizing of the forum by radical feminists and by political activists of certain groups.

Main spokesman for the delegation was Dr. Nina Strokata who, as a former political prisoner, gave extensive information in her testimony on the issues in question.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1980, No. 31, Vol. LXXXVII

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