Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:46:42 -0400
From: Lizzy Poole <lizzy-AT-cybertours.com>
Subject: Re: [globalsisterhood] Request information on Women and War




Aida Maria Noval wrote:

> From: Aida Maria Noval <amnoval-AT-laneta.apc.org>
>
> October 12, 1998
>
> Dear GSN Members:
>
> Thought you might be able to help C. Amal from the Jesuit Refugee Service
> South Asia.  His request appeared in the JRS electronic publication
> Dispatches ; No. 34 (15 September 1998).  Please reply directly to C. Amal at:
> amal-AT-jesref.org
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Aida Maria Noval
>
> **REQUEST: WOMEN AND WAR - C. Amal writes: "JRS South Asia is planning a
> book on women and war. Visits to war zones and refugee camps impress upon
> us the role women play in affirming life amidst the arrogance of violence.
> We come across moving stories from the field. In South Asia, we have the
> situation of Sri Lanka, in which very young girls fight and die before they
> are 16. There are very young war widows, and women who end up in unsavoury
> places after being cheated by agents promising first world asylum. Please
> pass on stories of significant women you have come across, to me at
> amal-AT-jesref.org  Let the world listen to them."