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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S PEACE SERVICE PALESTINE NEEDS 16 WOMEN: To spend three months a year, for three years in a Palestinian village support local efforts toward non-violent peacemaking respond to any instances of injustice witnessed record and report abuses of human rights to the international community live and work in an international women's community alongside Palestinian people. This is a 3 year project to set up and run an International Women's House in Haris, Salfit, Palestine from August 2002. It will provide trained women from the international community to: witness, monitor, document and publicize human rights abuses; to peacefully intervene to try to stop such abuses from occurring and to support the growth in non-violent resistance to the illegal and brutal Military Occupation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and Gaza. Women will live communally in a house in a village with basic facilities and under the restrictions enforced by the illegal Israeli military occupation. Each member of the team, of at least 16 women, will agree to stay for 3 months a year. Thus there will always be a presence of a minimum of four women, which will be supplemented by others staying for shorter periods. It is essential that applicants have been to Palestine and been involved in non-violent direct action somewhere. The minimum age is 21 years. The decision making will be largely by consensus and women should have some skills such as human rights monitoring or accompaniment, report writing, photography, computing, group process, or a willingness to learn. The working language will be English and it will be necessary to learn basic Arabic. The following costs will be met by the project: Full board and lodging in the International Women's House Travelling expenses to and from your home country Medical insurance A stipend of $275/£185 per month whilst in Palestine For an application pack please contact one of the people below: Josephine Jaffray Tel: +44-1539-732583 Email: joseph...@jaffray.fslife.co.uk Angie Zelter Valley Farmhouse, East Runton, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9PN, UK Tel: +44-1263-512049 Email: refor...@gn.apc.org Nadya Waziri Tel: +1-720-564-1462 E-mail: sol...@usa.net If you are interested in the project but cannot apply for this post, please let us know as we shall be looking for volunteers at home and in Palestine and will also welcome visitors to the project. Mission Statement of IWPS The IWPS (International Women's Peace Service) wishes to develop projects where there are massive, violent, human rights abuses occurring. IWPS seeks to develop non-violent skills, training and support for intervention in such conflict situations. IWPS is an independent nongovernmental organisation that is supported by donations, grants and volunteers from global civil society. IWPS is run by women from different countries around the world and is intentionally diverse in recruiting support from a wide range of differing racial, age, religious, and cultural backgrounds. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
