Linked with Medica mondiale, and with Self-immolation by oppressed Afghan women is rising.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: For bosniac woomen: « I want to break the taboo and tear down the wall of silence. For the dignity of tortured women », and for afghan women: « There is a conspiracy between men in the families, in the police, in the judicial system and in the mosques, putting women at their mercy. Violence is everywhere, but the women have never experienced anything else and cannot even recognize and name this as violence. They just say: ‘I feel bad' ».
She says also: « Sexual violence is a part of all wars, but throughout the world it is not discussed, its victims forgotten. However it is the most serious kind of attack on the intimate self. Survivors of war and torture need medical, psychological and therapeutic support, to return to their daily lives and rediscover their dignity. And that is why I wanted to do something ».
And she says: « I have seen many hospitals in developing countries, but I have never experienced conditions as in Kabul ».
Monika Hauser – Germany
She works for Medica Mondiale.
Monika Hauser, an Italian citizen and gynecologist, born in 1959 in Switzerland, is a gynecologist and director of the women’s aid association Medica Mondiale in Cologne, Germany. In 1992, in the middle of the Bosnian war, she opened a therapy center in the city of Zenica for women victims of rape and war trauma. Now more than 80 Bosnian women doctors, nurses, therapists, and other professionals work there. She also founded projects for victims of sexual violence in Kosovo, Albania, and Afghanistan. Medica Mondiale supports local women’s organizations in other countries, including Indonesia, Iraq, and Congo.
