Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Netsai Mushonga – Zimbabwe

Linked with .

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “The methodology of active public education, with a deep understanding and respect for Shona and Ndebele cultures, has benefited the program”.

She says also: « I became an activist early on in my life because of the discrimination and abuse of women that I witnessed growing up ».

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Netsai Mushonga – Zimbabwe

She works for the Fellowship of Reconciliation Zimbabwe (For/z).

Netsai Mushonga was born in 1969 in Bindura, Zimbabwe. She is a media coordinator of Women’s Coalition and a member of the International Committee of International Fellowship. In 1995, Netsai worked as a social worker for Danhiko, an NGO providing education and job training for young people with disabilities. In 1996, Netsai joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Zimbabwe, and in 1997 she started the women peacemakers program of For/z. She secured funding to raise awareness within churches on the need to confront gender violence. Netsai was born when Zimbabwe was struggling for independence. At the time hopes for a free and self-reliant country Zimbabwe were at the top of the agenda of the new democracy. The political situation has since deteriorated. There are many problems ranging from shortage of food, petrol and decline in the economic and value of the currency.

Netsai began her work for democracy and against gender violence after studying at the University of Zimbabwe. She has contributed to raising awareness of the problem of domestic violence and violence against women in general in Zimbabwe. She has published an advisory booklet for the church community on violence against women and is now rehabilitating survivors so that they can continue with their life.

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John Perkins – USA

Linked with Dream Change, and with Global Dialogue Center. Added January 18, 2008: also linked with John Perkins on January 17, 2008, and with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

He says: ”We are watching an empire in the throes of collapse. In Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Iraq, Nigeria — and so many other places — we are beginning to see leaders take stands that oppose the corporatocracy. They are trying to limit debts, are standing up to their rights to have the same weapons as their enemies, refusing to give in to oil companies (Ecuador kicked Occidental out earlier this week), and thumbing their noses at Washington. The Bush Administration has pushed people to the limit. And has proven that the empire is vulnerable. »

He says also: « We must be fully conscious. We must support oppressed people around the world. Starving and sick people. We must recognize that our grandchildren have little hope for stable, sustainable, and peaceful lives unless every child on every continent has equal reasons for hope. We do not want to see this empire simply collapse and be replaced by another. We want to insist that it transform itself into a model that reflects the highest ideals of our Declaration of Independence. We must create a world that will make future generations proud of us. » (For both see his Newsletter May 2006, and Archive Newsletters).

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John Perkins – USA

John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.

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Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea

Linked with The National Agricultural Research Institute NARI, and with Strategies for agriculture and rural development in Papua New Guinea.

She is a Laureate for the Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life 2006.

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Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea

Maria Linibi (51) has become one of the most outstanding role models for women farmers in PNG. Rural women play a key role in this still essentially rural country and economy. However, as in many other areas of the world, rural women often live in the shadow of their spouses. A highly competent business woman in her own right, Maria and her husband have developed their own farm and she tirelessly uses the experience gained there to stimulate and encourage other women farmers.

This has been done under trying circumstances. PNG is a struggling developing country, and rural areas are often neglected in terms of services, communication and transport. It is a testament to the laureate’s courage and persistence that she has been able to achieve such a lot. Born in 1955, she worked as a public servant for many years before leaving this job to work on her own farm in 1990.

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Nicole Magloire – Haiti

Linked with Feature: Curbing Sexual Violence in Haiti, and with The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center. Also with Shocking Lancet Study about Haiti.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I cannot imagine life without commitment to a cause”.

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Nicole Magloire – Haiti

Graduate of the Puerto Príncipe Medical Faculty in Haiti, Doctor Nicole Magloire has dedicated her life to women’s health. In the 1960s, she was committed to the opposition against the dictatorship of Duvalier. Since then, she has been involved in the fight for women’s sexual and reproductive rights and, aside that, for the support of women victims of domestic and political violence. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

link:

Soros Foundation in Haiti Responds to Police Disturbance;

Press Release from … FOKAL;

Local School Directory of St. Vincents Center;

News and Newsletters.

Marta Lucía Micher Camarena – Mexico

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “There must be another way to exist, to be a human being, to be a woman”. (Inspired by a text of the poet Rosario Castellanos)

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Marta Lucía Micher Camarena – Mexico

She works for The Mirabal Sisters Human Rights Center, and for the Feminist Millennium and Democratic Revolution Party.

They thought of calling her Lourdes, but they named her Lucía. Marta Lucía: “Malú.” She could have been an opera singer, but she became a politician. Decisions, denials, experiences have made the girl that studied piano and song into a defender of women’s rights. A defender of herself. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García – Nicaragua

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I could not understand how I, a woman who was illiterate and poor, could contribute to change our lives. I did not understand that the strength of 1000 women was necessary to achieve what we wanted”.

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Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García – Nicaragua

She works for Axunica, and for The We Bet on Life Foundation.

She took care of her eight siblings and was not able to go to school. She was mistreated by her mother and also by the man she loved. She is Nicaraguan. Her legal name is: Gladira Auxiliadora Talavera García (52). People simply call her “Chilo.” Women recognize in her a common past of poverty and–more than that–a present of organization of acts against disrespect and marginalization. “Chilo” listens, reflects, finds solutions, smiles and never backs down. Never. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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Norma Angélica Cruz Córdoba – Guatemala

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I have fought and I will continue to fight until the last moment. The right to life is not only the right to breathe, but it is also right to education, health and justice”.

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Norma Angélica Cruz Córdoba – Guatemala

She works for Sobrevivient (Survivors), Tierra Viva (Live Land).

Norma Angélica Cruz was a student leader and a Catholic missionary, a mother, political militant and widow. A daughter of the war, she survived not only the armed violence, but also violence within her family. When her life partner abused her daughter, she took legal action against him, which led to his trial and sentence. She founded the organization Sobrevivient (Survivors) that takes care of victims of violence, including women and their families. Norma Angélica Cruz is, in Guatemala, a recognized defender of women’s rights. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba

Linked with Proyecto Palomas.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “Peace does not need doves. It needs men and women of goodwill”.

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Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba

She works for Proyecto Palomas.

For over ten years, Lizette Vila has dedicated herself to working for peace and respect for diversity in society. In Havana, she created a project called Proyecto Palomas (Project Doves) with the goal to bring about changes in people’s life styles and promote respect for human diversity, in order to encourage a culture of peace.
(Read all on 1000peacewomen).

links:

La diversità e la pace nel Proyecto Palomas;

festival internacional del nuevo cine latinoamericano.

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Index October 2006

Wally N'Dow – Gambia

Linked with Redefining cities, and with big-picture.tv BPTV.

He says: « The time has come to face the facts. The urban environment is deteriorating: at least 600 million people, for the most part in developing countries, live in insalubrious housing. At least one third of the world’s citydwellers live in inadequate housing conditions ». (Read more on urbanism).
He says also: ”We need, as a society, in nations large and small, things that bind us together rather than divide us. We need that cement of human solidarity ».

Listen to his five minutes video on Big-Picture.

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Wally N’Dow – Gambia

And he says: « If you look at the sum total of all our collective endeavours for human welfare, you realise that unless you have a functioning human habitat, you can’t do anything much, for instance, with education – there’s no housing. You can not do anything about health, clean water, you cannot do anything about physical security of people, you cannot do anything at all – at all – about democracy and civic responsibility when these places fail ». (Read the whole interview on Global Vision).

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