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ХХ Х II Конвенція СУА 11 (New York City) The opening of UNWLA’s first office in the spring of 1934. President Olena Lototsky is seated front, center. UNWLA Cultivates Commitment Originally established as Жіноча Громада (Ukrainian Women’s Community) in 1921, later transformed into UNWLA Branch 1, Ukrainian women leaders called upon the Ukrainian women of New York to action in 1925 when the first National Council of Women of Ukraine was faced with the loss of membership i n the International Council of Women. This event of potential disaffiliation galvanized our predecessors to unite under the UNWLA umbrella in order to restore the voice of Ukrainian women in the international community through membership in the American Na tional Council. These leaders could not have imagined that in 1939, with the Soviet occupation of western Ukraine and the forced dissolution of countless Ukrainian institutions and organizations, the responsibility for the survival of the Ukrainian women’s movement would be placed squarely on the shoulders of Ukrainian women in the diaspora. In 1948, the UNWLA initiated and co - founded the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO), an organization that gave Ukrainian women in non - Soviet countries an entrance into the sphere of international non - governmental organizations (NGOs), direct involvement in the United Nations and access to international women’s conferences. Throughout the Cold War, the history of the UNWLA has been one of preservation of identity coupled with advocacy for the individual and collective human rights of women in Soviet Ukraine. Only after Ukraine’s independence in 1991 did the UNWLA have the satisfaction of bolstering the revival of Ukraine’s women’s movement in Ukraine. Besides reinvigorating the women’s movement in Ukraine, the UNWLA has offered significant support for the past three decades for Ukraine’s movement through economic hardship and progress in social reforms focused on a future infused with European values. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, the renewed threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty has meant a deepening of UNWLA’s humanitarian mission to ensure Ukraine’s physical, psychological, and spiritual survival and healing, with a focus on aiding vict ims of war. With the challenges encountered during the pandemic year of 2020, the UNWLA mission has continued to evolve. Given the monumental accomplishments of the UNWLA, knowing the tremendous good the UNWLA represents for our community in America and in Ukraine, on our 95 th anniversary, S oyuz i anky have ample reasons, justifiably , to be proud!
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