Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

Linked with Earth Systems.

Ny Luangkhot was born in Nongbon village Chaichettha district, Vientiane in 1953. She has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Kiev and another in Sociology from the Sociology Institute of Moscow State University. She worked for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and was an interpreter for high-ranking officers. She lectured on Marxism to senior members of the Communist Party and worked for NGOs. Currently a consultant on development issues, she trains local workers in community development project evaluation for local and international organizations … (1000PeaceWomen 1/2).

She says: « There are two types of people in this world, the strong and the weak. We can choose to belong to either kind. But for women, I wish they would seek to belong to the strong rather than the weak ».

The Rural Research and Development Training Center RRDTC is an independent, non political Lao Not for Profit Association which is locally managed. We provide training, research and resources for community development in Lao PDR … (full text).

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Ny Luangkhot – Laos

She has two Master’s Degrees, one in economy from the University of Kiev, and one in sociology from the University of Moscow. She has extensive experience of work at village and grass-roots level in rural Laos within a number of professional areas, including water supply and sanitation. She is well versed with applying participatory working methods, and has extensive experience of statistical investigations and studies at village level. At the same time, she has worked with education and process facilitation at high national level, amongst other things she has participated in the development of a national strategy for rural water supply and sanitation … (geoscope.se).

Found on 1000PeaceWomen: … “I feel I am aging and am slow at times. To work with the youth, you need a lot of power. I think if I am no longer hired to work, I will attempt to do small work to share my knowledge with the youth and to give them moral support. No one rules over the other. We all simply want to share our experience and I want to continue working as a stimulant.”

Those are the words of Ny Luangkhot, a development worker who has lived for more than 50 years. She was born in 1953 to a poor farmer family in Nongbon village, Chaichettha district, Vientiane. Her mother was a rice farmer, and her father organized the first charity in Vientiane to make coffins for the destitute. From 19 siblings, only eight survived. The oldest sister among the remaining offspring, Ny Luangkhot had to take on great responsibilities. After school, she collected vegetables and fresh water crabs and fish from a rice field and sold them to earn income for her family.

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Linked with The Afghan Women’s Mission AWM, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA, with The Afghan Women’s Network, with The Afghan Women’s Organisation AWO, with Afghan Women’s Educational Center AWEC, with Afghan Links, with Afghan Institute of Learning AIL – Creating Hope International CHI, and with The Afghan Independent Journalists Association.

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

Bibi Naqi was born in 1928 in Kabul, Afghanistan and has a BA in Literature. Having worked as a teacher, headmistress and principal in many schools in Kabul since the 1950s, she has a long experience in education. Now she is retired. As a tribute to her efforts, Bibi Naqi was promoted by His Majesty crown prince Ahmad Shah, the elder son of former King Mohammad Zahir, to head of education in Kabul. Thanks to her, many orphan girls and boys were able to attend schools with her encouragement and subsistence. She has received several medals and certificates of honor … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She says: « Despite the challenges I have faced throughout my life and in my education career, I remained steadfast so that young girls would look at me and overcome their unfortunate conditions ».

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Sayed Naqi – Afghanistan.

Sayed Bibi Naqi, was the only girl among the Sadat families who attended school. But due to economic hardship, she could not attend school after year nine. But she managed to pursuer higher education while working part-time. She went to school during a period when girls’ education and going to school was a sinful act.

Despite all these challenges, in 1950 she studied hard and obtained a BA in Literature. After her graduation she was appointed as a teacher, and later she served as vice-principle of Zarghona girl’s high school and in many other schools. Bibi Naqi was promoted as principle of Zarghona girl’s school, but due to the dominant discrimination against women’s work at that time she was fired from her post.

In 1960’s she was appointed as vice-dean of Faculty of Education. She had also served as Director of Education for the Red Crescent Society of Afghanistan. In 1960’s she was transferred to the ministry of education where she has suffered more from ethnic discrimination and was eventually forced to early retirement.

As her financial status was so constrained, she had to work as a typist in the Radio Afghanistan and Afghanistan Bank for 18 years. Despite facing discrimination, she was applauded for her significant efforts and has received some awards, medals and certificates of honor. Bibi Naqi has always been impassioned to seek knowledge and pursue education.

She traveled to France and Australia to improve her French and English languages and advance her work skill. Her works stand as a pioneering exemplum to Afghan girls who are deterred from education whether by traditional customs or by financial constraints. (1000peacewomen 2/2).

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Gladys Marín Millié has passed away

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

Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie (July 16, 1941 – March 6, 2005) was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile PCCh (1994-2002) and then president of the PCCh until her death. She was a staunch opponent of General Augusto Pinochet and filed the first lawsuit against him, in which she accused him of committing human rights violations during his seventeen-year dictatorship … She died of brain cancer after a long battle which included treatment in Cuba and Sweden. Upon her death the government declared two days of national mourning. In accordance with her wishes, her coffin was exhibited at the former National Congress in Santiago and was viewed by thousands of mourners prior to its cremation. For her funeral the PCCh and her family organized a march through the center of Santiago, where there were between 500,000 and 1 million marchers. An avenue crossing a working class district of Santiago was later renamed after her … (full long text).

She said: “To fight is not to suffer, to fight is to create”.

Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie (Curepto, 16 de julio de 1941 – Santiago, 6 de marzo de 2005) fue una profesora y política chilena, dirigente del Partido Comunista de Chile. Fue Diputada para el período 1965-1969 y reelegida en 1969 … (full text, es.wikipedia) … and: Página de Gladys Marín en el sitio del Partido Comunista.

Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie – Diputado.

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Gladys Marín Millié – Chile (1941 – 2005)

She worked for the Chilean Communist Party (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Chile). This is a Chilean political party that advocates communism. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party.

Gladys Marín, Communist opponent of Pinochet, 8 March 2005.

Con el respaldo de mil firmas. ALCALDE REMITIRÁ AL CONCEJO SOLICITUD DE LOS COMUNISTAS PARA QUE UNA CALLE DE PUNTA ARENAS LLEVE EL NOMBRE DE GLADYS MARÍN. Con el respaldo de mil firmas, la directiva del Partido Comunista en Magallanes, se reunió con el alcalde Juan Morano Cornejo, solicitando que se nomine con el nombre de Gladys Marín Millie, una calle de Punta Arenas, indicando que « el nombre y la figura de Marín convoca la simpatía y solidaridad de millones de chilenos » y « que Punta Arenas no es ajena a ese sentir ». Tamara Avendaño, presidenta del Partido Comunista en Magallanes, indicó que la fallecida dirigente nacional de los comunistas fue « una activa luchadora por las causas del pueblo » y que su figura « es reconocida tanto nacional como internacionalmente ». El alcalde Juan Morano, les manifestó a los dirigentes comunistas, que la solicitud de nominar una calle con el nombre de Gladys Marín Millie, la iba a remitir al concejo municipal para su aprobación, indicando también, que era muy oportuna la solicitud, en el Día Internacional de la Mujer … (centros chilenos blog, 10/03/2007).

Her unofficial life and work.

In September 1973, Gladys Marín, who has died, aged 63, of a brain tumour, had just arrived back in Chile from a tour of Europe when the army chief-of-staff Augusto Pinochet led a military coup against the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende. Immediately, Marín, a leading member of the Chilean Communist party and a parliamentarian, broadcast a desperate message of defiance on Radio Magallanes. Her name appeared on the junta’s most-wanted list, and she went underground, separated from her husband, the Santiago Communist party secretary Jorge Muñoz, and their two sons … (full text).

Bidding a 2005 farewell to the best and brightest.

Found on 1000PeaceWomen: Gladys Marín’s ‘footprint’ remains. It is in the people of her country and in the world that admired her leadership, just as they admired the fighting spirit that sustained her, in the struggle against the tyranny that devastated Chile from 1973 to 1990. It was the same spirit that gave her the strength to overcome the pain of exile, of knowing that her husband had disappeared, of being far away from her two sons. She believed that, “the ideals of justice, peace and solidarity, the ideals of communism, are going to destroy the awful myths propagated against the left-wing movement.”

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inked with National School of Drama – New Delhi.

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

Tripurari Sharma (born on 31 July 1956 in Kurukshetra, Haryana) initially chose theater as a means of expression to shrug off middle-class conventions and to seek an identity. It did not take her long to realize that it was more than that: it was an intimate way of revealing and connecting with the lives of women audiences and sharing their perspective with the world. Evolving a play through collective interaction has helped bring theater out of closed spaces, and into the lives of Indian women … (1000peacewomen 1/2).

She says: « Theater has an ancient but male-centric history in India. Tripurari saw it as an intimate way of revealing and connecting the lives of women audiences and sharing their perspective with the world ».

She is an Associate Professor Acting: A graduate in English from Delhi University and Diploma in Direction from National School of Drama. Directed many plays and has been associated with many theatre groups in India and abroad. A playwright of repute and has translated many Indian and Western plays. Has written scripts for films.Was the Indian representative at the first International Women Playwrights’ Conference’ held in USA in 1986. Received the Sanskriti Puraskar award in 1986, and was honoured by Delhi Natya Sangh in 1990. (National School of Drama).

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Tripurari Sharma – India.

She works for Alarippu, and for the National School of Drama.

She graduated in English literature from Delhi University in 1976 and from the National School of Drama in 1979, specializing in direction. Those were the years after the draconian Emergency years, when then prime minister Indira Gandhi had repressed all freedoms and expression in 1975. Tripurari was secretary of the Miranda House College students union at a time when there was acceleration towards social change.

Tripurari comes from a middleclass family, and she chose theatre to free herself from conventions and seek identification. The women’s movement in India was gaining ground: Tripurari saw theatre as a means to share and talk about the lives of women, and she threw herself wholeheartedly into the women’s movement.

She was also involved with trade unions and college students, preparing plays and generating awareness on issues like dowry. Street theatre emerged as a strong sociopolitical medium, an exclusive forum where women audiences could relate to various issues. It was an intimate way of revealing and connecting the lives of women audiences, and sharing their perspective with the world. A play on teasing girls and women, performed by women alone in colleges, served as a device to bring to the fore and evolve a women’s perspective. And this was just one of them.

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

Violeta Vanesa Delgado Sarmiento was born in the municipality of Diriomo, in Nicaragua. Her father was Nicaraguan and her mother Honduran, from the village of Olancho, in the East of the country. Olancho is a village of “pistoleros” (gunmen), of men with guns and machetes; fierce, brave people. It is the birthplace of many insurgents and guerrillas. Her father is from Diriomo, a land of witches and enchanters…..When asked, “Do you have more of the witches or of the fighters in you?” Violeta laughs “I have both. They are combined in me“.

She remembers: “The richest part of my childhood, while I was living in my village, was the sensation of freedom. I felt that I could go in and out of the houses of different people as I wished. This community feeling you have when you live in a village doesn’t limit you to within the four walls of your own home. You take your lunch at Juanita’s place, and then you visit Mrs. Teresita, and all the children play among the trees… I think that this feeling of being part of something marked me for the rest of my life” …

She says: « There is no path laid ahead, the path is laid down while you walk–this is my motto. It is from a verse written by Antonio Machado ».

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Violeta Vanesa Delgado Sarmiento – Nicaragua

She works for Women’s Network against Violence.

Why then did the daughter of a conservative office worker, from a lower middle-class, semi-urban family, leave her comfortable environment to be part of the collective, which raised its voice to denounce the inequalities and the violence against women? « I think that the example of the women of my family, who have always been engaged in the search for justice, left its mark on me ever since I was young”. Violeta challenged her family and began a life committed to improving the quality of life of the Nicaraguan people. That was the beginning of her devoted and tireless struggle to defend women’s human rights.

In 1980, during the Sandinist Popular Revolution, Violeta, then 11 years old, accompanied her mother who worked as a member of the Crusade for National Literacy. They went to a community, not far from Diriomo, where they lived for four months with a peasant family in a two-room ranch. “We ate and slept with them, sharing their lives, dreams and illusions.” Later on, she participated in the activities planned by the Sandinist Youth Organization, taking part mainly in activities such as the harvest of coffee beans and cotton, and in the campaign for better health.

When, in 1992, she went to University she was an outstanding student and therefore she was elected as the President of her Faculty. She participated actively and led the fight to raise the budget for the universities in 6 %.

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Linked with the National Association of Friendship Centres.

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

Kama Steliga, born 1967 in Kenniwick, Washington State, USA, came to Canada when she was ten. She is the executive director and driving force behind The Lillooet Friendship Centre Society, an Aboriginal organization that supports individual, family, and community empowerment through culturally sensitive programs and services. Her work at Lillooet Friendship Centre has led to her advising and assisting similar operations at a provincial level …

… Sarah Chandler says about Kama’s work: « it is an outstanding example of bridge-building between cultures, while at the same time protecting and promoting human dignity, human rights, and fundamental freedoms ». (1000peacewomen).

She is elected Secretary of the National Association of Friendship Centres (scroll down).

She signs the Opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq, Jan. 2, 2006.

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Kama Steliga – Canada

She works for the Lillooet Friendship Centre (address, and location by Google map).

Kama Steliga always speaks her mind and has become quite vocal in her opposition to established authorities who downplay social problems in her home town of Lillooett. For example, government officials have denied Lillooett funding for the homeless because it has a population of fewer than 5,000. According to officials, such a small town can not have a problem with homelessness. « Tell that to the people living under the bridge outside town, » says Kama.

She believes communities need a healthy mix of self-reliance and support from outside sources. Especially disappointing to her are recent cuts in the latter. « I really believe in the Liberal motto ‘Communities taking care of communities,' » she says. « But the cuts took away our ability to do that. They were too deep, too broad, too fast, and without enough forethought. There just didn’t seem to be any kind of humane strategy to deal with social health. »

Lack of resources especially touches Kama when she sees the direct effect on individuals. She notes that the population relying on Lillooet’s food bank for meals has swelled to 300 people a month, about 10 percent of the town’s population.

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Linked with LBH APIK Jakarta, and with humant rafficking.org.

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

Nursyahbani Katjasungkana (born 1956) is a feminist lawyer and advocate of women’s human rights. In 1995, she founded the Women’s Association for Justice (APIK) and established the Women’s Legal Aid institution in Jakarta, the members of which were initially recruited from among former clients and survivors and trained as paralegals. During the 1998 reformation, along with several other women activists, Nursyahbani founded the Indonesian Women’s Coalition for Justice and Democracy, the first mass-based women’s organization in the country since 1965, and was elected its first Secretary General.

She says: « Strengthening and empowering the community is the key to change ». (1000peacewomen 1/2).

Her CV.

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Nursyahbani Katjasungkana – Indonesia

She works as member for Kemitraan, for Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia, and for Women’s Association for Justice APIK respectively Women’s Legal Aid (LBH) of APIK.

When Nursyahbani began her career as a lawyer and director of the Jakarta Legal Aid in 1987, “women’s rights”, “feminism” and “violence against women” were unfamiliar words in Indonesian legal discourse. Such words were considered irrelevant. Impoverished men and women were both seen as victims of the authoritarian state and its developmental approach, and identifying women as an oppressed group would only undermine the overall goal of establishing democracy and alleviating poverty.

NGOs were only starting to emerge in Indonesia, and only two NGOs were working on women’s issues. But Nursyahbani’s close links with women who were concerned about women’s specific situation, as well as her own sharp awareness of the discrimination that women experience, led her to advocate “women’s human rights.” The term has since become more and more accepted in the Indonesian context.

Even when human rights groups began to rise in Indonesia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Nursyahbani’s human rights colleagues did not share her notion of gender equality. Violence against women, for instance, was not considered a human rights violation, but a crime in the private sphere. As a human rights defender and feminist activist, Nursyahbani considered violence against women in the private sphere to be a human rights violation when the state does not take action to prevent or remedy it. Her views were quite progressive compared to the traditional human rights discourse in Indonesia during that period. “Violence against women is a human rights violation when it is condoned by the state,” Nursyahbani asserted.

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

Ala Nemerenco is the director of the Clinic for Primary Health Care of the State Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Moldova. In only two short years since its opening, the center has become a model for the entire country and has set a new standard for offering health services at the highest international levels, for instructing medical students and residents, and for supporting family medicine practices throughout the country.Since the clinic’s inception, she has been responsible for overseeing its day-to-day activities, including planning and building the infrastructure, hiring and training the personnel, operations, administration, and implementation of new pilot project initiatives … (1000peacewomen).

She says: « Life is short, but it is long enough to at least try to do what is right ».

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Ala Nemerenco – Moldavia

She works for the University Clinic for Primary Health Care.

The University Clinic of Primary Health Care was established as part of the Partnership of the American International Health Alliance between Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA and the State Medicine and Pharmaceutical University “Nicolae Testemitanu” of Moldova. Today, two years after opening its doors, the clinic has become a model center for providing medical services at the highest international levels with modern equipment and well-trained professionals.

The clinic is a center for the implementation of new forms of organization in the medical field, as well as the creation of development strategies and management practices for medical institutions. The clinic lies at the center of joint community projects geared towards promotion of healthy lifestyles among the general population, protection of children, and prevention of domestic violence. It also is a leading instruction center for medical students and residents and family physicians, who travel from different parts of the country in order to receive some of the best training available. The clinic’s Skills Teaching and Assessment Center promotes some of the newest medical practices among the graduating medical students.

Concurrent with her responsibilities at the University Clinic of Primary Health Care, Nemerenco acts as a consultant to the World Bank project, “Public awareness Campaign Healthy people, Healthy Future,” in support of the health reforms in the Republic of Moldova. Within the scope of the project, numerous information campaigns have been launched throughout the country. The campaigns aim to explain and support the medical reforms currently occurring, including the implementation of a medical insurance system and the introduction of family medicine practices. On behalf of the project, Ala has organized and edited numerous information campaigns involving TV, radio, and the general print media as well as specialized medical publications. The campaigns also attempt to raise the overall awareness level on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other maladies.

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Linked with the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust.

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

Rolene Miller, born in 1938, is a qualified social worker from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. For five years, she worked as a teacher specializing in remedial teaching. She started the Mosaic Training Services and Healing Centre in 1993, a non-profit organiztion for abused women. The focus of the organization was to extend reproductive health services, HIV/Aids awareness, legal rights and food security. Rolene is recognized for her efforts in empowering women to take control of their lives and to bring about peace in their homes and in their communities.

She says: « Women are the first agents of change; the first teachers because they are the bearers and nurturers of culture. If change has to happen, it must start with women ».
… both on (1000peacewomen 1/2).

How Amy Biehl (an idealistic Stanford graduate of the Amy Biehl Foundation) was murdered; and: BIEHL’S PARENTS COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH DAUGHTER’S KILLERS, 1997.

The CAPE TOWN NETWORK CONTACT LIST.

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Rolene Miller – South Africa

She works for Mosaic Training Services, and for Healing Centre (not better specified, find all Healing Centres worldwide on Google search).

Rolene Miller and the community workers whom she trained felt honored and privileged to cross the previously forbidden color-bar, getting to know each other personally and learning about each other’s cultures and communities. For Rolene, social worker and volunteer counselor for five years, the change was evident ,when she began to receive many crisis calls from women who were experiencing abuse and domestic violence.

She started the Mosaic Training Services and Healing Centre in 1993, a non-profit organization for abused women. The focus of the organization was to extend reproductive health services, HIV/AIDS awareness, legal rights and food security.

In 1994, she teamed up with a psychologist and developed a one-year full-time educational program to train grassroots women in community and social work skills. Training and supervision of community workers took place in a disadvantaged community.

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

Eliane Potiguara (1950) was born in an indigenous ghetto in Rio, formed by indigenous people from Paraíba, a poor state in the Northeast of Brazil. Eliane is the founder of Brazil’s first indigenous organization, the Grumin (Woman and Indigenous Education Group), which has now been transformed into the Network of Indigenous Communication. As a writer, Eliane also articulates a group of indigenous authors that fight for the preservation of their culture …

… She says: « In the process of oppression of the indigenous people, women suffered the most. But the spirituality of my people is deep and it will not disappear easily ».
(1000peacewomen).

Her personal website in portuguese.

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Eliane Potiguara – Brazil

She works for Rede de Comunicação Indígena (Network of Indigenous Communication), and for Rede de Escritores Indígenas (Network of Indigenous Writers).

Eliane Potiguara is the founder and president of Brazil’s GRUMIN (the Group of Indigenous Women Educators).

Eliane Potiguara, also known as Eliane Lima dos Santos , was born in Rio de Janeiro after her family emigrated from the impoverished state of Paraiba, home of the Potiguara Indigenous tribe. At just twelve years old, she discovered her vocation for teaching; working at her neighborhood school teaching students to read and write. In high school, she taught, attended classes and worked as a telephone operator, seven days a week. In an effort to guarantee a better future for Brazil’s 220,000 Indians, she has created a nationwide network of indigenous women. Among her many achievements, she has organized the Group of Indigenous Women Educators (GRUMIN). GRUMIN currently employs twenty-six regional coordinators implementing a basic program of education and consciousness-raising among women in hundreds of villages … (full text).

Video in portuguese: Eliane Potiguara – Algumas Palavras, 9.42

1000peacewomen-text: … Eliane’s memories of her childhood are of a life marked by poverty and exclusion. Raised in an indigenous ghetto near one of the city’s prostitution areas, her family reached to point where they had to live on the streets. Her grandmother used to sell bananas at the entrance of the school where Eliane studied. Her inspiration for her efforts to defend indigenous women comes from the drive and the interest in literature of the women who raised her. “We live a historical violence; my grandmother left her tribe after being molested at age 12”, she says.

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