Women in Action 1990-3&4 Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting

This double issue of Women in Action corresponds to numbers three and four for 1990. We must apologise for the delay, caused by the Isis office transfer from Rome to Manila.

We were asked to produce this double issue in Santiago while the work of the Isis International office in Rome is being moved. We have taken this wonderful opportunity to try to build closer links with the women's movement in Asia and Africa and so have covered feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean in detail to give a greater understanding of our work.

The first section attempts to give a picture of the Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist tweeting where almost three thousand women gathered in San Bernardo, Argentina, to discuss a enormous variety of issues affecting women, and feminism as a whole, as we enter the nineties. Although it is rather long, we felt it was important to include the document produced by a three-day workshop of a hundred women on "Challenges and Proposals for Feminists in the '90s."

The second section covers the Isis WICCE Exchange Program "Communication and Information in Networking and Change." The orientation phase of the program took place at Isis International here in Santiago in mid-1990. The participants then continued to different parts of the world for the second phase of the program.

But that is not everything. There are sections on new legislation against violence against women, funding, women getting organized and women and the environment. Other areas of the world have not been left out. There are articles from Africa and Asia as well as Latin America.

This issue shows how women are now "in action" in an ever wider area, joining together and taking charge of their lives, in an effort to achieve the kind of world we are all working towards.

With all best wishes from Santiago to you all - may the rest of 1991 be a more hopeful, peaceful year than it has been so far. Let's join together with our sisters from all over the world and work for peace.