World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations and Ukrainian National Women’s League of America invite you to a discussion of The Ukraine Conflict and Wartime Gender Violence:
Saturday December 6, 2014 at 5pm
UNWLA Headquarters
203 Second Avenue, 4th Floor, NY
– “Women taking on, suffering from, and responding to the conflict in Ukraine,” introduction by Dr. Martha Kichorowska Kebalo, WFUWO Main Rep to UN/ECOSOC
– “A Fiery EuroMaidan Ignites a Feminist Voice” by Dr. Mar’iana Rubchak, editor of anthologies “Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Ukraine” and of the forthcoming: “New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm”
– “The Crimean Tatars Right to Self-Determination as Indigenous Peoples within the territorial integrity of Ukraine is the key to regaining Crimea” by Ayla Bakkalli, USA Representative of the Indigenous Crimean Tatar Mejlis, and Advisor on Indigenous Matters to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations
– “The UNWLA’s War Victim’s Fund” by Roksolana Misilo, UNWLA Vice President of Public Relations
– Concluding remarks: Dr. Martha Kichorowska Kebalo
Admission: $5. Please join us for a reception following the panel.
RSVP to [email protected]
This event engages with the “16 days of activism against gender violence,” an international campaign joined by Ukraine in 2000. The campaign, initiated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in 1991, is held annually, from November 25th thru December 10th (Human Rights Day). Proceeds from this event will be allocated to the UNWLA War Victims Fund.
More info to be found at:
Web: www.WFUWO.org
Facebook: WFUWO at the UN
Twitter: #WFUWO
