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My husband sold me to a brothel. I had to accept five or six clients a day. Once a client called me and another girl; he said he was with just one other man. In fact, there were 20 of them; they treated us so badly I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill the man who called us. Then I thought his family would suffer, so I left him alone.
Somaly Mam – Cambodia
Her book The Road to Innocence, by Somaly Mam, will be published in 2006, by Virago.
Forgiveness goes together with reconciliation. The one cannot be done without the other. Ahmed Kathrada, leader in the South African resistance and jail mate of Nelson Mandela.
Ahmed Mohamed « Kathy » Kathrada – South Africa
Ahmed Mohamed « Kathy » Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). While he was at Johannesburg Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr Yusuf Dadoo and the Cachalia brothers, leaders of the freedom movement.
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She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
She says: My utopia is that we, mothers, we, women, would be able to keep our sons away from military service, no matter in which part of the world they are supposed to fight. She works for the Mothers for Peace.
Barbara Gladysch – Germany
Barbara Gladysch (born 1940) worked for 36 years as a special teacher for children. She has devoted herself to securing a peaceful life for children worldwide. In 1981, she founded Mothers for Peace, as part of the German peace movement.
Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. Psychiatrist and author writes: Diagnostic Mislabeling: The tendency to blame the victim has strongly influenced the direction of psychological inquiry.
Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. – USA
It has led researchers and clinicians to seek an explanation for the perpetrator’s crimes in the character of the victim. In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to « brainwashing » have yielded few consistent results.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
She says: Something was wrong in a society where a person was questioned because she was a woman. She works for the Museo Argentino de Artistas Plásticas (Argentine Museum of Women Artists), and the Association of Friends of the Museum.
In her work, Silvia Ocampo has captured, with vitality and sensitivity, the social problems of her time. After graduating as a professor of Fine Arts, she joined the art studio of master Demetrio Urruchúa and took charge of it when, in 1955, the master was captured.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Suzuyo Takazato (Japan), Suzuyo Takazato is a driving force behind the crucial question posed to the present militarized global security system: for whom does the military provide security?
She works with two groups: 1) as director for the Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence; 2) East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network against Militarism.
Linked to our presentation of Iranian Human Rights Working Group IHRWG on December 13, 2005. And to human rights panel of the CIRA conference on the same date.
Dr. Hossein Bagher Zadeh is a writer, journalist, and ex-refugee from Iran. He now lives in Ipswich. He is Chair of the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG).
Hossein Bagher Zadeh – Iran
His Text Human Rights are Universal – Period! of the presentation given at the human rights panel of the CIRA conference in Atlanta. First, let me say that I make no apology about the bold title of my talk. This is not a proposition or an opinion I am expressing.
Gerald Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human: « The Human Rights Movement and the Helsinki Process, » 4/30/02. He is born 1929 in Vienna, Austria. Hs parents came with him to Sweden when he was two years old. He has grown up in Stockholm.
Gerald Nagler – Sweden
On the occasion of observance of the fifth anniversary of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 11 February 2000, the president of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Gerald Nagler was presented with a special award.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Asma Jahangir – Pakistan
For a quarter-century, acclaimed human rights lawyer and UN special rapporteur Asma Jahangir (born 1952), has been a thorn in the side of the powerful and ruthless in Pakistan. During this time, this human rights’ lawyer, working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRC), has defended the oppressed in Pakistani society – among them political prisoners, bonded laborers, women, and minorities sentenced under unjust laws.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Raimunda Gomes da Silva – Brazil
She says: “The power of capitalism makes a small number of people accumulate wealth, while many others become poorer every day. How can a mother live in peace if she can not feed her little children?” She works for the ‘Conselho Nacional dos Seringueiros (CNS)’.
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