Participation by Betty Milan
In 1994, Betty Milan went to Lisbon to cover the meeting of the Parliament as special envoy from the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Two years later, she represented the Department of Culture of the state of São Paulo in the first Congress of Refuge Cities in Strasburg, France, In April 1997 she took part in the second Congress at the invitation of the event’s organizers.
In September that same year, she presented the Parliament’s project at the seventh Day of Literature in Passo Fundo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, persuading the authorities present there to designate Passo Fundo as the first city of refuge in Brazil for writers persecuted or threatened in their own countries (photos).
The Parliament adopted Salman Rushdie’s “Declaration of Independence” as its charter of principles.
Upon completing ten years of existence, in 2003, the International Parliament of Writers voluntarily dissolved itself.
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