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Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel

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

She says: « The majority of women feminists in our society are aware of the repression against them and reject it silently. But very few of them take the initiative to change the situation. »

She says also: « There is an increased awareness by Israel Arab women that they are no longer passive victims ».

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Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel

She works for Women Against Violence WAV.

13 years ago in Nazareth, Aida Touma Suliman – a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship – and six other women founded Women Against Violence (WAV), an organization that advocates Palestinian women’s rights. In 1993, WAV founded the first shelters and crisis centers for battered women in the Arab world. The group also established a halfway house for women trying to rebuild their lives after leaving abusive husbands.

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Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France

Linked with Lao Movement for Human Rights LMHR, with Les Lao-Hmongs et leurs droits de l’home, and with about human rights in Laos.

And with Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand and Douangdeuane Bounyavong – Laos, with Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, with
Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, with The Online Burma/Myanmar Library, and with Indigenous Webs for Information.

She says, that « the health system (of the Lao-Hmong minority) is characterized by high mortality and morbidity, low use, poor quality of services and inefficient public spending … nearly a third of children between the age of 6 and 14 do not attend school », and « about one half » of the students who start school drop out before completing Grade 5″, according to this report. Its conclusion suggested that in order to ensure the success of the LPDR’s eradication of poverty plan, the LPDR government « must do all that is possible to ensure that all national budget allocations, international loans or donor funds reach their intended project targets, and do not become part of the cycle of externally funded corruption ». She also denounced the desperate plight of the Lao-Hmong minority from the Saysomboun and the Bolikhamsay regions, « which is being tracked down day and night in the jungle by the armed forces, which is being denied the right to food and is forced to live out of roots and leaves, unable to cultivate the land or pick the fruits from the forest, unable to build permanent homes, for fear of being spotted and killed by the army ».

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Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France

She works as Président for the Lao Movement for Human Rights

LAOS –Absence of the Economic and Social Rights denounced at the UN – Geneva, Wednesday 30 March 2005: At the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Vanida S. THEPHSOUVANH, president of the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR) and member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party, on behalf of which she spoke on Wednesday afternoon, denounced the situation of health service and education in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) as being « at the very limit of what is acceptable », pointing more particularly at the situation of the 80% portion of the population living in rural zones, in spite of the hundreds of million euros of aids received from the international community.

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Sihem Bensedrine – Tunis

Linked with Police terror in postcard state.

In 1980, she became a reporter for the independent journal Le Phare. When the journal stopped publication, she became political chief at Maghreb, and then at Réalités. When Maghreb ceased publication because of the food riots in 1983, she became editor-in-chief of Gazette Touristique and founded l’Hebdo Touristique. At the same time, she was overseeing the opposition newspaper El Mawkif. (wikipedia).

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Sihem Bensedrine (born October 28, 1950) is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born at La Marsa, near Tunis and went to France to study at the university in Toulouse, where she took a degree in philosophy. She founded the publishing house Arcs in 1988, but it became bankrupt in 1992 because of the human rights crisis. In 1998, she became literary chief for the publishing house Noir sur Blanc.

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Gabriela Ngirmang – Palau

Linked with LA SUBSISTANCE ET LA POLITIQUE.

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

She says: « All I am trying to do is to make a little difference so that future generations may enjoy a beautiful and peaceful future, united with respect for one another and respect for the environment ».

She says also: « I came here because the women feel that our interests are not being satisfactorily protected, and out of concern for the Palauan citizens. The Compact is hundreds of pages long, it is written by lawyers, and the political education on the document is biased to support the political needs of the President of Palau. Despite much public relations and efforts to sell the Compact, we clearly understand that the implementation of the Compact gives the United States the right to conduct military operations on as much as one-third of our land – forever. We see that the Compact says military rights may end in 50 years if mutually agreed. This means, we understand, that if the United States wishes to continue its control of our land, it needs only say so and this will go on forever. This is unacceptable. »

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Gabriela Ngirmang – Palau

Whatever view you hold of Gabriela Ngirmang as a peace activist (unheard of in Palau) or a Mirair (traditional title), a matriarch of Ikelau clan, she has made a lasting impression.

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Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon

Linked with Action by Christians Against Torture ACAT.

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

She says: « They are my brothers and they love me. All of them feel that I am one of them and they even call me ‘the chief of prisoners’. Indeed – I am one of them », and:“ Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I should die in active service?” .

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Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon

She works for Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture ACAT.

Sister Hedwig Vinyou was born in 1955, in Mbiim Djottin, North-Western Province of Cameroon. From 1962 to 1968, she attended St. Peter’s School, Mbiim. In 1973, she entered the Franciscan Congregation, committing her life to religion and service. She now lives in Bamenda, West of Cameroon, and has worked for many years among prisoners and fought for their rights. Since 1998, she has decongested the Bamenda Central Prison by negotiating and obtained the release of some 2000 prisoners who, for a long time, had been awaiting trial for minor offences.

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Nils Daulaire – USA

Linked with Nils Daulaire’s speech, with ‘about available health care‘, with Nils Daulaire’s Keynote address, with Importance of Global Alliances … , and with Global Health Council.

Listen to the GHC Panel, Intro with Nils Daulaire, Stan Bernstein, By Ian on Tuesday, May 30, 2006.

Read: Hands on Health Care. He is president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. The Council, founded in 1972*, has built a global coalition in more than 100 countries that promotes improvement and equity in health for all the world’s citizens.

Listen audio or see video about: The Global Health Crises and Child Survival.

He says: « It is wrong when a woman dies because she cannot afford the basic care that could save her life. And it is socially and politically destabilizing to have a world divided into medical ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ « .

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Nils Daulaire – USA

He works as President and CEO for the Global Health Council.

Read his Keynote Address at International Conference on Healthcare Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS.

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Millicent Obaso – Kenya

Linked with The African Women’s Initiative AWI, and with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

She says: « My long-term goal is to save the lives of women. There is so much death in Africa, and so much disease — malaria and AIDS are just part of the problem. I want to work with the most vulnerable to improve their lives. »

Millicent Obaso works as a reproductive health officer in the Great Lakes region of Africa – she works in fourteen countries. She is married for the second time and has three children. But she says she has paid a price for her professional career – the cost was a painful divorce from her first husband which was not accepted at her first by her family. (Listen to her video on BBC).

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Millicent Obaso – Kenya

She works as Senior Officer for the African Women’s Initiative AWI, and for the American Red Cross. See also: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Earlier this year, American Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy appointed Millicent Obaso as special advisor on international women’s health issues.

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Henny Yudea – Indonesia

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

She says: “The spirit and determination of the people we are working with really keep us going. Their wisdom in living truly gives us a good lesson in life”.

Henny Yudea – Indonesia

She works for Health Study Institute (Lessan).

Henny Yudea (born 1968) is a health rights activist. Her main interest is developing traditional medicines, which she believes is an answer to the health problems of poor people. Herbal medicines can be made from ingredients which are mostly cheap and easily accessible to many. She works with hundreds of farmers, including women, encouraging them to plant herbs, and educates them in ways to develop medicines and secure a better future that stems from better health. Henny Yudea recalls: “I started my work in the late 1980s when villages surrounding Yogyakarta were going through hard times and the economic situation wasn’t good. The government was so repressive that people couldn’t express their opinions and views as citizens.” As a young activist, she wanted to help people cope with their situation and live better.

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Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo

Linked with Refugee Women’s Association, with Centre Médical Evangélique CME, and with Centre de Résolution des Conflits CRC / Alternative Dispute Resolution ARD.

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

She says: « I long for the day I will return home and continue with the peace building process ».

Kongosi is, with her husband Ben, cofounder of the Centre for the Resolution of Conflicts (CRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In June 2001, her life came under threat and she was evacuated to the UK. She is currently studying for an MA in Peace Studies at Bradford University. (Read much more on refugeewomen.org).

Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo

She works for the ‘Centre Médical Evangélique’ CME, and for the ‘Centre de Résolution des Conflits’ CRC / Alternative Dispute Resolution ARD.

Kongosi Onia Mussanzi (52) has spent ten years campaigning and advocating for peace. She co-founded the Centre Résolution Conflits (CRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but had to flee to the UK because of death threats. She is involved in conflict resolution, trauma counseling and reconciliation, with NGOs, churches and political leaders, students and women traumatized through rape.

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Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland

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

She says: « I believe Poland soon will be among countries realizing equal rights policy for everyone, regardless of their gender ».

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland

See her own website in polish language.

On the english wikipedia.

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka went into politics in 1991, shortly after Poland’s political system had transformed from communism to democracy. An ethnographer specializing in Mongolian culture, she quit her scientific career and was a co-founder of the Union of Labor (she left the party in April 2004). She was Poland’s first Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Status of Men and Women. Fifteen years after the beginning of her political career she became Deputy Prime Minister. She is known for her uncompromised fight for human rights, especially those of women and sexual minorities.1989: a historic date for Poland. The country’s political system begins to change from communism to democracy. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, an ethnographer specializing in Mongolia, a mother of two daughters, married to Jerzy Pawel Nowacki, considers entering politics. She is not sure if she can manage. Fifteen years later she is Deputy Prime Minister and a politician known for uncompromised fighting for human rights – women’s and sexual minorities’ rights in particular.

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