Paula Helen Hollmen Tasso

Overview

Paula Helen Hollmen Tasso born July 1, 1923. (d. 2010). WILPF Representative at UN 1988-2000; political activist working for environment and racial and economic justice; two visits to Soviet Union to present workshops on Bruntland Report on international environment.

Quotations

"War: it is clear that all wars, local, global, in-between, invalidate the rights of people."(International Peace Update, Oct. 1998)

"The horror becomes too much to bear. Generations of human beings have been damaged. The destabilization of countries is, in large part, due to the sudden availability of massive quantities of lethal light weapons." ("Challenging the Arms Trade." Peace and Freedom, p. 11, Jan. 1999; Photo Bryn Mawr College)