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She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Radha Bhatt – India
Radha Bhatt’s work in the picturesque but poor Himalayan foothills is a canny combination of progressive ideas and Gandhian ideals-and they have functioned wonderfully. She is working for the Kasturba National Memorial Trust (KNMT), which received NGO Consultative Status (II) by the UN.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore. He is author of three books including the best sellers ‘Taliban’’ and most recently ‘’Jihad.’’ He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia for the past 25 years and writes for the ‘Far Eastern Economic Review,’ the ‘Daily Telegraph,’and ‘’The Wall Street Journal.
Ahmed Rashid
Interview on BBC World, August 4th, 2005 – A complex three way game between the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan is undermining the war on terror and hindering nation and democracy building, writes journalist Ahmed Rashid in his latest guest column for the BBC News website.
Linked with ‘Centra Asia – Tadjikistan – Dushanbe‘ on our AEHRF pictures blog.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan
She says: « I do not want to belong to those who become disappointed in ideas of democracy, humanity and justice. I believe that sometimes the saddest event in one’s life can stimulate one to improve oneself. » She is working with the Center for Democratic Transformations (CDT).
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She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
She says: If there is to be a positive change in society, someone has to sacrifice. » She works with the Mohila Muktijodha Samiti. Monowara Begum (born 1953), is one of the 1971 Bangladesh’ war of liberation’s best-known freedom-fighters. Today she battles on various beachheads and is active in advocacy work as well. The mutilated postwar economy saw Monowara get down to building the Bangladesh of a collective dream.
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Sorry, I could not get any photo of Monowara Begum Monu – Bangladesh.
She has worked for more than three decades, both within the government system and through the Mohila Muktijodha Samiti (women freedom-fighters’ cooperative), to make the government system accountable to the greater good (Peacewomen.org).
In Holyday you can read: Women activists slate softening of the Women Repression Act, by Staff Correspondent: Leaders of the women community on July 14 expressed strong resentment over certain amendments to the Women Repression (Amendment) Act, 2000, which were adopted by Parliament the day before.
The resentments surfaced at a meeting of the leaders of Dhaka-based women activists, which was held at the office of the Anannya, a Bangla fortnightly edited by Tasmima Hossain. Deputy Secretary Salma Binte Kadir of the Law Ministry clarified some legal queries made by the women?s leaders.
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She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Goes with ‘Assuming Authority‘.
Marguerite Barankitse – Burundi
She says: “Who knows, even criminals can achieve wonderful things, if they are given a chance.” She created the Maison Shalom, which has become an island of peace in a strife-torn country. During the genocide of 1993/94, Marguerite « Maggy » Barankitse saved thousands of children from death or abduction at great personal risk.
The NOMINATIONS CRITERIAs for peacewomen.org:
The main criteria that each woman of peace must fulfill can be summarized as follows:
— She employs and promotes active, non-violent responses to conflict situations, structural injustices and inequalities
— Her work is sustainable and long-term
She leads by example, acting with moral courage and responsibility
— Her work is exemplary and worthy of emulation
— She works for the cause of peace and not for political or personal gain
— Her work is transparent and based on tolerance
— She includes and engages with people of different backgrounds and across the conflict divide
Source: reprinted from the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 website. Here go to their search engin:
Peacewomen.org;
Inscription for their newsletter;
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SOME of the most down-at-heel homes in the remotest villages of West Virginia sport posters for George Bush and Dick Cheney, although their occupants surely do not expect to gain from any further reductions in capital gains tax.
Serge Halimi – France
We see a lot of « We support our troops » signs. We meet a brother and sister in the state capital, Charleston, who will vote Republican for « religious reasons »; yet the brother is a schoolteacher and he has no health insurance.
Published in University of Toronto Quarterly – Volume 72 Number 3, Summer 2003 – Sabina Spielrein, 1885-1942: Ronald Hayman, A Life of Jung, New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2001. 522, illustrated. us $35.00 – Reviewed in University of Toronto Quarterly by Linda Munk. Until the publication of The Freud/Jung Letters in 1974, Sabina Spielrein had been forgotten, even in psychoanalytic circles.
Sabina Spielrein – Russia and Switzerland – 1885-1942
Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909: ‘Spielrein is the person I wrote you about. … She was, of course, systematically planning my seduction, which I considered inopportune. Now she is seeking revenge.’
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The Belgian Armand Mattelart, a professor at the University of Paris VIII, is one of the most biting critics of the global monopolies of the communications and cultural industries.
Armand Mattelart – Belgium
How do you see the evolution of public policies on communications around the world? Is governments held hostage by the mass media? The notion itself of « public policies » in the area of communications and culture, as the non-aligned countries demanded of UNESCO a New World Information and Communication Order, during the 1970s, underwent a long journey through the desert in the last decades of the past century.
His parents left Turkey in 1972 for work in France. His father learned him work and family as great values. He learned skills with electricity and – when eighteen – found a working place. As he had to do overwork without beeing paid, he started his own enterprise. Receiving no credit from banks, he asked the little community Cenon, near Bordeaux/France for a starting capital, he received 5’000.- Euros.
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Sorry, I can not find any photo of Mustafa Yildiz – Turkey & France.
Today 25 years old he has 4 employees (two from Turkey, one from Maroc, one French). He believes to rise this year the affair volume and employe 4 more persons.
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