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themselves to this cause were still alive. This is an election year, and I ask that all of our members exercise their right to vote. It is a privilege that was granted to us by women who fought not only for their rights but for the rights of women of the future, and there is no better way to honor their memory than by voting. The National Council of Women is an organization that holds a special place in the history of the UNWLA. This organization gave the UNWLA and its members entrance to the international women’s movement and was a window to the world beyond Ukraine and diaspora communities. Many of our members served on Executive Committee of NCW; UNWLA presidents were members of the NCW Board. When the members of this organization elected me as their president, they bestowed on me not only a great honor but wonderful opportunities. Because of my role as president of NCW I was privileged to meet and work closely with ICW presidents Dr. Pnina Herzog and Dr. Annamah Tan, who appointed me as ICW’s main liaison to the United Nations, a position I held for nine years. Many UNWLA members have attended ICW General Assemblies all over the world. During these events, we were able to share information about the women in Ukraine under Soviet Union and about Ukrainian dissidents. Through the years, our participation in these organizations made it possible for us to forge close friendships in the international community of women. When the National Council of Ukraine was formed and took its historical place in Helsinki among other national councils of the ICW, it was a moment of pride and great satisfaction for me, because this was something I had championed for many years. It was Dr. Martha Bohachevska Chomiak that first pushed women’s organizations in Ukraine to renew the National Council in Ukraine; it was your president who encouraged Ukraine’s women to learn from other NCWs as they were in the process of creating their own. In 1995, while attending the Women in Democracy Conference in Kyiv as President of NCW/US, I presented them with templates of bylaws of other councils to use as models for their own organization. NCW and UNWLA archives provide a wealth of information about the close ties between the two organizations. For example, the NCW president attended the First Ukrainian Women’s Congress of America in 1932, and the UNWLA president attended the NCW Congress in Chicago in 1933. The archives show numerous other instances of cooperation and mutual support, even though the UNWLA officially became a member of the NCW in 1952. I close this message with a reminder of another important anniversary that will be marked this year: the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Delaware Community Remembers the Holodomor by Sophia Sluzar Branch 54 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Philadelphia Re gional Council, sponsored a program on November 25, 2007, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of thel932-1933 man-made famine in Ukraine. After the liturgy in St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware, the pastor, Rev. Volodymyr Klanichka, celebrated a solemn panakhyda during which members of Branch 54 stood with the UNWLA flag and lighted candles at the front of the church. As the panakhyda ended, the congregation sang "Bozhe Velykiy." After the service, those attending had the opportunity to view two videos in the parish hall. Members of Branch 54 are much obliged to Martha Pelensky of the Philadelphia Regional Council, who brought two of her own videos to Wilmington for this solemn event. One of the videos focused on the first official commemoration of the Holodomor in Kyiv led by President Yushchenko; the second showcased an art exhibit in Kyiv, whose theme was the Holodomor. Ms Pelensky also introduced and showed the film “Harvest of Despair.” The author is press and public relations secretary of UNWLA Branch 54. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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