Dear friends, in Northern Finland we arranged the NCRB Twin Seminars titled "Crisis Centres and Violence against Women. Dialogue across the East-West and North-South Divides", 23-27 November, that took place at Oulu, the capital of the Oulu county and at Rovaniemi, the capital of the (Finnish) Lapland county. The first part of the seminars closed the NCRB - A Network for Crisis Centres for Women in the Barents Region, the Nordic-NW Russian development project; the second part, arranged in collaboration of the NCRB research network and the Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education in Barents research network, brought together scholars engaged in research on these topics and issues.
The professional and scholarly communities were transformed into a political community with a strong commitment and belief in "An End in Sight" a demonstration on Sunday, 25 November. Together we were some 100 women (and some men) from 10 countries. The appeal for Women's Peace in the Barents and Arctic regions was formulated during the seminars, outlined at a separate ad hoc multinational workshop comprised of women with long experience and many "new comers", many from Russia who were attending the very first demonstration in their life. The message will be further discussed at Taking Wing - Conference on Gender Equality and Women in the Arctic to be held in the Finnish Lapland, August 2002 under the auspices of Finland's chairship of the Arctic Council; violence against women and prostitution and trafficking will be one the three main themes at the conference. For more information on the seminars about the Network for Crisis Centres for Women in the Russian Barents Region (NCRB), please see http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/ktl/NCRB ********************************************************* Dr. Aino Saarinen NCRB project, Dept. of Educational Sciences P.O.Box 2000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/ktl/NCRB/ http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/ktl/WMI/ Preferred contact address: Kurjenpolvi 2 D 6, FIN-90580 Oulu Tel. +358 - 8 - 5566 092; Fax. +358 - 8 - 5472 253 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
