Dr. Jean Sindab left the service of the World Council’ of Churches on March 31, 1991. She had spent 4 years and 9 months as Executive Secretary within the pregame to Combat Racism. It has been the measure of her growing commitment to PCR, the World Council of Churches and the racially oppressed, especially women under racism, that she was able to stay in Geneva longer than her original contracted time.
remember Jean on her first day, on the staff of PCR. Before she had even come to Geneva, she had flown straight from Washington in July 1986 to help staff the PCR Consultation on Youth and Apartheid in Harare, Zimbabwe. No one would have said that she was new to the job. She mixed among these angry young people with. Their suffering and – anger mirrored her own passion about injustice in general and apartheid in particular.
Though she was a black American activist, passionately committed to the struggle against racism there, as can be seen from her involvement in the Presidential election campaign of Revd. Jesse Jackson, she never promoted her home issue over and above everything else. On the issue of Women under Racism, however, she demanded a place and a priority. (Link, WCC/PCR Newsletter).
(Jean was a great friend of India’s Untouchables. She toured India and had an intimate knowledge of its sanctified racism. She was responsible for Dr. Y.N. Kly’s book on Dalit & International Law published by the WCC. Dalits lost a good friend — EDITOR).
