YPRES, March 10 (Hina) - The International Peace Conference On Women and Children, which started three days ago in the Belgian town of Ypres, ended on Sunday.
YPRES, March 10 (Hina) - The International Peace Conference On
Women and Children, which started three days ago in the Belgian
town of Ypres, ended on Sunday. #L#
The conference, organised by the Belgian charity organisation
'Mothers For Peace', was attended by some 150 lecturers and
witnesses to violence who arrived from all over the world.
Kata Soljic, Marija Magic and Zeljka Radic from Vukovar spoke
about psychic and physical violence in the war in Croatia.
Representatives of 'The Rampart of Love - Mothers For Peace'
from Croatia, which helped organise the conference, also spoke
about the Homeland War in Croatia and consequences of the
aggression.
The conference consisted of two parts - the one included
lectures, while the other included testimonies by the victims of
violence. Some 50 representatives, mainly from women associations
took part in the conference. Representatives from Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Kosovo, Palestine, Columbia, Israel and Algeria spoke
about conflicts in their countries. Child prostitution, child
molestation and other forms of child abuse were among the topics of
the conference.
Conclusions of the conference will be sent to the United
Nations. The conference demanded that violence against women and
children be condemned and that women and children be protected in
armed conflicts. The conference condemned war crimes and children
and women trade. It also demanded that a centre for help to raped
women and victims of violence be established.
The conference stressed the need for a more responsible role
of women in social, political and economic life.
African Suzanne Monkasa received a reward for peace at the end
of the conference.
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