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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Serbia & Croatia: Women organize to help rape victims
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- The ACTivist Volume 9 #1, January 1993.
-
- The ACTivist is published monthly by the ACT for Disarmament
- Coalition, 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2R4, phone
- 416-531-6154, fax 416-531-5850, e-mail web:act. Hard copy
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- /** gen.newsletter: 129.10 **/
- ** Written 11:46 pm Jan 9, 1993 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
- SERBIA AND CROATIA
-
- In the face of massive violence, voracious propaganda machines,
- and the sudden blaze of publicity, women in Serbia and Croatia have
- been working -- and attempting to work together, despite a
- mostly-obstructed communications system -- to draw the outlines of
- constructive projects for helping women raped in war. As women
- who have worked in the feminist, anti-violence movement for years,
- they are aware of the care that is needed, the ways in which the
- needs of the women must take priority over any other perceived
- needs, whether those of the state or those of their would-be
- benefactors.
-
- The women of the Autonomous Women's House, Zagreb, and the
- Anti-War Campaign Croatia, have begun a process of systematic
- visits to refugee camps in order to build trust, and to determine
- from the women themselves what their needs are and what kinds
- of support they most require. As this trust-building cannot be an
- instant procedure, they also note some important first requirements
- for support of women raped in the ex-Yugoslav war.
-
- First, the support must be women-to-women only; the work
- must be done only by non-governmental organizations to avoid
- its possible use in nationalist propaganda; support centres must be
- established in all states of the territory; and these centres must be
- decentralized and run by women only.
-
- Similarly, the women of the SOS Telephone in Belgrade, Serbia, are
- developing plans for one specific women's centre, in Belgrade, to
- work with survivors of war rape, provide counselling, and collect
- documentation; as well as making contact with women in refugee
- homes and camps.
-
- * Autonomous Women's House, c/o ARK, Tkalciceva 38, 41000 Zagreb,
- Croatia
-
- * SOS Telephone, c/o Stasa Zajovic, Dragoslava Popovica 9/10, 11000
- Beograd, Serbia
- ** End of text from cdp:gen.newsletter **
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