* * * SWEDEN * * * Report from Anne Neale of London Wages for Housework on trip to Sweden 20/21 January 2001 HARO (a network campaigning for financial support for parents so they can afford to stay at home and raise their own children if they want to) and the National Association of Widows in Sweden (NAWIS) together with 12 other NGOs will march, give speeches and demonstrate for equal Human Rights for women. The whole town of Gothenburg, including different NGOs, womens groups, university groups, young and old, women and men, will celebrate 8 March with a powerful carnival including music, parties, dance. Members of NAWIS (which campaign against vicious government cut to pensions and other entitlements) Gothenburg and Stockholm will stress the political invisibility of widows, show their solidarity with widows in Third World countries and strive for global awareness of the invisibility faced by widows, both in Sweden, across the EU and worldwide. A man from a Swedish anarcho-feminist trade union paper is also circulating info. |