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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 98-02-03
From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Spokesman's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Porte-Paroleb
03/02/98
CONTENTS / CONTENU
[01] 8 March 1998: "A flower for the women of Kabul" - An
international campaign for the women of Afghanistan
[01] 8 March 1998: "A flower for the women of Kabul" - An
international campaign for the women of Afghanistan
Today, in Brussels, a panel of prominent women, representing a core group
of 50 internationally known women - Ministers, Nobel Prize Winners, as well
as politicians and intellectuals, some from the Muslim world - launched an
Appeal for the women of Afghanistan. The panel presented this initiative
as part of a world wide campaign originally promoted by the European
Parliament, and called on the international community to show its support
for Afghan women, who have been stripped of rights that women around the
world take for granted. The Appeal calls on all Member governments of the
United Nations, as well as on all international organisations, to do
whatever is in their power to help restore the basic human rights of women
in Afghanistan. It is now open to the signature of women world wide. The
European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), which is committed to
raising public awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, is
supporting the campaign.
MIDDAY EXPRESS
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