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Human Rights in Practice The International Women’s Alliance has a great variety of members. There are old founders, experienced long-time organiza tions and young new organiza tions of Africans and Asian countries. Their position in the organization does not differ in rights and priviledges. It does, however, differ considerably in the wide range of activities, on the platform of IWA, for they have a great task to bring their membership up to the level of the membership in the advanced countries. This tremenduous work, which they face, cannot be done by themselves, even with their most sincere efforts. They need help. This helping attitude is vigor ously manifested by their older sister organizations in Europe. Their great personal and organ izational effort, mostly demon strated in conferences, in differ ent parts of the world — as in Teheran and Monrovia, during the last triennial are bound to be rewarding. Nothing is done in vain if it is done dith zeal and sincerity, for the sake of the “younger sister” in the world family of the inter national womanhood. And the greatest reward, for the initiat ors of the mentioned confer ences and seminars would be the enlightement of life and the promotion of future prospects in the activity among the newly admitted members of the devel oping countries. In this we see indeed the highly humanitarian attitude of the International Women’s Alliance. These activities as well as the wide ideological platform, adopt ed by IWA raise the expecta tions that the Declaration of Human Rights might be applied equally to all nations, members of UN — without any discrimi nation. This raises also, among our membership, the question — could something be done for the restablishment of truly human rights, for the women behind the Iron Curtain? These women behind the Iron Curtain were all former members of IWA — the Bulgarien, Cze choslovakian, Estonian, Hungar ian, Latvian, Lettian, Polish, Rumanian, Ukrainian and Yugo slavian women. They walked and strived a good piece of way to gether. Should they be ignored today, when they are suppressed by a totalitarian regime? Their respective countries are at pre sent under Communist rule and women there are deprived of their free expression of thought. Thus the discrimination of human rights is demonstrat ed once again on millions of women. This is a heartbreaking fact to be stated at the 15th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Should it not move the conscience of each truly human itarian spirit? We are aware that the situation is complicated and that it is not easy to direct one’s efforts on different fields. But, the International Women’s Al liance cannot close its eyes on the great problems of today’s world. It cannot brush them away with the bare remark, flat ly made at a session of the recent Congress: “We cannot take into consideration areas where men as well as women are deprived of their rights. Our concern is for the equal rights of women, on the basis of their sex. There are countries, such as South Africa,” (the area then under discussion) “where men and women are both being deprived of their rights.” We are wondering — do for mer members of the IWA, now banished from the free world society — deserve such sentence ? N. P. WFUWO’S 15th ANNIVERSARY The 15th anniversary of World Federation of Ukrainian Wom en’s Organizations was marked with “Study Days,” exhibits and восіві gatherings by member or ganizations in USA, Canada and Australia. N atalie P olo n sk a V asylenko PROF. NATALIE POLONSKA VASYLENKO Professor Natalia Polonska Vasylenko, Doctor of Historical Science, is a well-known Ukrain ian authority on the history of Eastern Europe. Born in 1884 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, she graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Kiev in 1913. In 1916 she became the first woman assistant profes sor of this university. From 1924 she was senior research fellow at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kiev. Dur ing her lifetime she published about 200 papers and works. The most recent one “Ukraine-Rus- sia and Western Europe” was published in London recently. Since 1945 Prof. Polonska Va sylenko has been living as an emigre in West Germany and continuing her scholarly work. On the occasion of her 80th an niversary the Ukrainian woman hood greeted her as their out standing woman scholar. CONGRESS OF PEN-CLUBS At the recent Congress of PEN-Clubs in Oslo, Norway (Playwrights, Essayists, Novel ists) the PEN-Club of Brazil sent as delegate the Ukrainian poet Wira Wowk. Several years ago she published an anthology of Ukrainian literature in Por tuguese. Miss Wowk is author of several books of poems and two novels. Recently a volume of her poems, translated into Portu guese by herself and Cleonice Berardinelli was published in Rio. НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ГРУДЕНЬ, 1964 23
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