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A Special Briefing on the Situation



<paraindent><param>out,out,out,out</param>You are cordially invited by
the Women International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) to

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   *****A Special Briefing on the Situation of Women in Burma*****


	          			and


           *****the Book launch of 'School for Rape'*****


Friday, April 17th 1998

1.30pm (13.30) - 3.00pm (15.00)

Room XXII, Palais de Nations


Programme

1.30 Introduction

1.40 Ma Khin gives a general overview

1.50 Naw May Oo on the situation of ethnic women

2.00 Betsy Apple launches her new book, "school for Rape'

2.05 Ma Thet Thet on women's political participation

2.15 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks out on the recent arrest of a Karen
Woman MP

2.20 Discussion

2.40 Video: 'Caught in the Crossfire'


"The disadvantages with which women are forced to cope with have to be
offset through solidarity and endeavor... [The solidarity of
women]...have filled me time and time again with renewed hope and
courage"

- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 1998.

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A L T S E A N - B U R M A

Alternative Asean Network on Burma

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