The World Young Women's Christian Association, holding its quadrennial council in Seoul, South Korea from July 7-13, 1995, adopted a resolution on the Indonesian occupation of East TImor in which it called for the immediate withdrawal of Indonesia from East Timor.
Prior to the World YWCA Council, an International Women's Summit, attended by 1000 women from around the world, also held in Seoul, heard an East Timorese speaker present her country's plight in a panel discussion on self-determination. Self-determination for the Palestinian people has long been a major concern of the World YWCA but this was the first time that a resolution on East Timor has been adopted.
The World YWCA is an international volunteer membership movement uniting 25 million women working in 92 countries to achieve common social justice imperatives by increasing the participation of women at all levels of society.
Other Asia-Pacific-specific resolutions dealt with the planned French nuclear testing, the issue of Korean reunification, and that of Japan's responsibility to the "comfort women" forced to serve as sexual slaves for Japanese troops during the Pacific War.