YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. "During wars women expose themselves to great dangers connected with defence, sexual assault and injuries, they lose their relatives, suffer from the lack of means for existence, leave their houses," Yves Arnoldy, the head of the Red Cross International Committee Armenian delegation said at the November 9 opening of the exhibition entitled "Women and the War." About 50 works of famous photographers are presented at the exhibition opened in Yerevan. They picture women from different parts of the world suffered from wars and conflicts. Those photos were presented in Geneva, Paris, Beirut, Budapest, Baku, Moscow and a number of other cities. Photos of women survived the Nagorno Karabakh war are presented at the Yerevan exhibition. The Georgian woman pictured in one of the photos had to leave her house and at present survives getting means for existence in a dump. In another picture Bosnian women pray at the monument dedicated to their relatives lost traceless. Women of Irak and other nations lost their husbands in the consequence of the war are also presented. They have to do a man's work, to chop wood as well as to carry bags of coal to sell in the market. As Yves Arnoldy mentioned, women, however, are not only suffered ones during a war. They also take up arms, defend their families, are actively involved in policy, found public organizations.

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