Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

Linked with IACERHRG, and with APRRA.

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

She says: « My dream is to see happy faces of people, living in their native lands, using their real human rights, guaranteed them by the state laws » … and: « Improvement of the health of more than 150 refugees and more than 20 political prisoners is my biggest achievement ».

Sorry, I can not find any photo of Tsisana Rapava, Georgia (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

She works for the Association for Protection of the Rights of the Refugees from Abkhazia APRRA. And she was a cofounder of the International Association Caucasus: Ethnic Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics.

Tsisana Rapava is an economist and a remarkable public figure of Georgia. She works on the problems of refugees from Abkhazia (Autonomous Republic of Georgia), South Ossetia (Shida Kartli region of Georgia), and the Chechen Republic. She herself is a refugee from Abkhazia. A well-known public person, Tsisana actively participated in the movement for the restoration of the independence of the state of Georgia.

She is currently residing in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Tbilisi State University. Since the beginning of 1994 she has been a refugee from Abkhazia. During the violent Abkhazian-Georgian conflict in November 1993 her son, Giorgi Rukhadze, disappeared and was later declared missing. She also has a daughter.

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

Member of Executive Committee Marie Hernandez died 30 March 2007 … She was Director of the Office of Tutela Legal of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, and Member of the Executive Committee of Pax Christi International. (full text).

She said: « The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society » … and: « I get my energy from my faith in God. God is my rock. He gives me the energy to fight for humanity, for peace in the world. The most important things are men and women, but ironically, they are the most aggrieved in our society. I am driven by my mission to help the Salvadorian people, who live in a defenseless and precarious state. I know that, from a religious point of view, defending human rights is also a labor of evangelism because it is the defense of human dignity, of men and women in the image of God. It is a choice of love, a choice of faith. I shall never give up ». (1000PeaceWomen).

She said also: “The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society”. (full text).

Galería de Imágenes, (picture gallery).

María Julia Hernández Chavarría – El Salvador (January 30, 1939 – March 30, 2007).

She worked for the Legal Tutelage of the Archbishops of San Salvador.

Comunicado de Fallecimiento de Dra. María Julia Hernández: Dra. María Julia Hernández, nació el 30 de enero de 1939 en Francisco Morazán, Honduras, de padres salvadoreños, por lo que era salvadoreña de nacimiento. Era Doctora en Derechos Humanos y Licenciada en Filosofía. Falleció en la ciudad de San Salvador, a los 68 años. “Nuestro profundo desafío y compromiso, nuestra razón de ser, son las víctimas, que en su mayoría son los pobres de El Salvador”. (full text).

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

She says: « I am convinced that the end of discrimination will not only benefit the victims, but it will also improve the quality of life and the culture in our country ».

She says also « During the period of repression, I went back to the country to work for the Vicariate for Solidarity, and the Foundation for Social Aid, directed by the Christian Church ».

Fanny Sonia Pollarolo Villa – Chile

She works for the ‘Consejo Nacional para el Control de Estupefacientes CONACE‘.

Fanny Pollarolo’s role in Chile’s political, cultural and social arena is momentous and irreplaceable. As a Member of Parliament, she has had a fundamental role in the legal defense of sexual minorities. She has been a driving force in the decriminalization of sodomy and was the creator of the Aids law, which was passed to fix the responsibility of the State in that matter. Her work has been crucial for bringing together different sectors whose common aim is to build a democracy respectful of the rights of a diverse society.

Linares, a city located south of Santiago, the capital of Chile, is an important farming and livestock center. Fanny Pollarolo was born there in 1935. Her community work began as a doctor and Psychiatry professor.

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Linked with the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation, and with Association for Aid and Relief AAR.

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

She is also the President of the ‘Association for Aid and Relief’, in japanese, in english, and Elected Vice Chair of the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation, in japanese, in english, both Japan.

Her code of conduct: Peace, Safety, International Contribution.

She says: « I found a gold mine in the hearts of the Japanese people ».

She says also: « The concept of social welfare and voluntary service is relatively new in a society where the welfare of each family member is the responsibility of the head of the family ».

Yukika Sohma – Japan

She works for the Association for Aid and Relief AAR, for the The Republic of Korea Women’s Friendship Association (no english website found), and for the Ozaki Memorial Foundation.

Yukika Sohma, known for her power to mobilize the moral and spiritual strength of the citizens of Japan, founded the country’s first non-government relief organization to aid refugees. The daughter of Yukio Ozaki, the father of Japanese parliamentary democracy, Yukika called upon each citizen of Japan to give one yen to help Indochinese refugees in the late 1970s, thus beginning her life’s work.

Today called the Association for Aid and Relief, her organization was largely responsible for the Japanese government’s decision to sign the international treaty to ban landmines.

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

She says: « Life is a chain of difficulties. When one obstacle is overcome, another arises. However, I will never retreat. My youth will not return, so whatever the difficulties, I will struggle to the end ».

Shana Chang – China

She works for the Alumni Association of Europe & America,
and for the China Artist Association

Apart from being an educator, Chang Shana is also engaged in the research and protection of Dunhuang cave art. As a professional scholar she has achieved great popularity because of her important creative designs and published works. She is committed to teaching, art, and the preservation of Dunhuang culture.Chang Shana was born in Lyon, France in 1931. She started to study mural painting in Dunhuang in 1945. In 1948, she went to the USA for further studies. She is the former head of Central Academy of Arts and Design. She belongs to the first generation of new China designers in industrial art who have produced many research works. She is now the vice president of China Arts Association. Her father Chang Shuhong was a famous Chinese painter and specialist in Dunhuang Studies, who had been honored as “the eudemon of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes”. He was also the first Director of Dunhuang Cultural Relics Institute. At the beginning of 1943, Chang took his family to Dunhuang. Subsequently, Chang became a famous expert in Dunhuang Studies, and Chang Shana, who was only 12 that year, has since been fascinated by the charm of Dunhuang art.

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

She says: « Let tea flowers serve for the health of all mankind while China opens to the world ».

Jiying Xu – China

She works for the Zhonglinluyuan (Beijing) Tea Flowers Research Center.

Xu Jiying is director of the Zhonglinluyuan (Beijing) Tea Flowers Research Center. She has devoted more than 20 years to the study of the uses of tea flowers, thus changing this once ignored part of tea trees into an important asset to mankind. Without charging any fees, she has devised and conducted training courses for over 10,000 tea planters from all over China.This is a true story about a special person with her special connection with tea flowers.
In the winter of 1949, various kinds of beautiful tree flowers were blossoming in the tea gardens in the hilly areas of Anhui Province, China. At the time, a child from a Xu family, who had grown tea there for generations, died. The sad father, accompanied by neighbors, went out for a walk. One big tea tree in bloom caught the eye. When they got closer to the tree, they found a dying baby girl covered in torn clothes lying underneath it. They regarded this girl as a flower angel sent by God to the Xu family to compensate for their loss. The little girl grew up in the tea garden and has never since wandered far. Xu Jiying is known as the person who is passionate about tea; she is also the first person to do research and development on tea flowers.

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

She says: « Exercise my duty when on duty. Serve the people with the power assigned by the people ».

Xuebo Li – China

She works for The People’s Government of Chifeng City.

Since taking up her position as vice mayor of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, Li Xuebo has developed a strong gender consciousness. She strives to find ways of helping poor women who live on poor land to increase their income. She encourages the women to be independent and self-supporting, and have self-respect. Her work has helped improved their living conditions and has enhanced their status.Li Xuebo of Han nationality is not a member of any political party. She graduated from the Liaoning Institute of Finance and served as an officer and deputy director in the Statistics Bureau, deputy director of the Rural Enterprises Bureau, vice-chairperson of the Political Consultative Committee in Chifeng City. Now she is the vice mayor of the Chifeng City government.

Located in south-east Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Chifeng is an underdeveloped area in which the Han people constitute the majority and the Mongolian people self-govern themselves. The City consists of 12 counties among which 8 fall in the list of poor counties identified by the central Government and 2 in the list of poor autonomous counties at the regional level. The population of the city is 4.6 million, with 512 thousand living below the poverty line. Among them, 342 thousand are women and children. Ever since she was appointed as vice mayor of Chifeng City in October 2001, Li Xuebo has been working hard to alleviate the poverty problem faced by the people and trying by various means to improve the quality of the infertile land.

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

She says: «  »My motto is: If My people will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear them and will forgive their sin and heal their land ».

Béatrice Félicité Bobo – Central African Republic

She works for the Mission d’Evangélisation pour la Repetance MER, and for Ouvre Socio – Humanitaire en Faveur des Enfants de la Rue OSHFER (both have no reference in the internet).

Street children benefit from Béatrice Bobo’s care, stop taking drugs and are freed from sex slavery, before returning to their homes. Since 1997, this 39-year-old single mother has been raising three children, a niece and sheltering street children in her house, where she founded an evangelical mission. She does all her work at an individual level through counseling and intercession, door-to-door visits, audiovisual media and public speaking. She also reaches out and evangelizes to the political authorities in the Central Africa Republic.

Beatrice Felicite Bobo was a successful Central African businesswoman and journalist. She had an impressive professional career before becoming a courageous missionary, although in the 1980s, she declined a German scholarship in order to take care of her brothers, because her only surviving parent, her father, had died. Hence, she did not acquire a university education. She trained on-the-job as a journalist with a national newspaper in 1987. She went through the ranks, becoming the business director in charge of public relations, subscription and advertising, and one of the few businesswomen of the Central Africa Republic in the 1990s. In 1994 she became a formal business owner, with a building and employees, engaged in importing and exporting fabrics for her interior decorating business.

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Linked with Action for Reach out.

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

She says: « These women live at the margin of society. In trying to accompany them, I too have experienced being pushed onto the margins and felt a strong sense of the need for solidarity among women » … and: « Ever since arriving in Hong Kong, I have wanted to work with this group of women. I see they are the outcasts of a society in which it is acceptable for a man to go to a prostitute but not for a woman to be a prostitute. They are looked on as the lowest of the low. After listening to some of their stories, I am often filled with admiration for them. Many are married with children, often divorced or separated, struggling to support not only their own children but children of relatives as well as elderly parents ».

She says also: « These women live at the margin of society. In trying to accompany them in their struggle, I too have experienced being pushed onto the margins of society as I come face to face with the refusal of officials at various levels to address their problems. To my surprise and deep gratitude, this has developed in me a strong sense of the need for solidarity among women ».

Elizabeth Ann Gray – Hong Kong SAR

She works for Action for Reach out.

Elizabeth Ann Gray (53) is a Columban Sister from Scotland. She is one of the founding members of Action for Reach out, the first NGO that provides support and services to sex workers in Hong Kong. As a foreigner, Ann not only has to overcome the language barrier, but also other social and cultural boundaries in working frontline with these women, who are being looked upon as outcasts and considered immoral.

Over the past 13 years, Ann has serviced and empowered this stigmatized and marginalized group, fostering their self-esteem, and promoting and protecting their basic human rights.

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

She says: « Il faut toujours avoir du coeur pour les autres / one must always have a heart for others ».

… Ces femmes concourent ensemble. Si ce prix leur est accordé, il leur serait attribué solidairement. Parmi ces 1000 femmes, on retrouve 137 Africaines issues de 34 pays. Sur cette liste on retrouve trois Camerounaises. Ce sont, Marie-Béatrice Kenfack Tolevi, Téclaire Ntomp et Hedwig Vinyou … (full text).

Sorry, I can not find any photo of Marie Béatrice Kenfack Tolevi, Cameroon (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

She works for the Organisation for Health, Food Security and Development OFSAD.
(Named as; ‘INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY – FOOD FIRST, Anuradha MITTAL, Policy Director, Oakland, California, U.S.A.’, page 13/30, not dated; on: OBSERVERS FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS / OBSERVATEURS DES ORGANISATIONS NON GOUVERNEMENTALES / OBSERVADORES DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES NO-GUBERNAMENTALES’, on a page of FAO.org.
And also named on: World Food Summit, 13-17 November 1996, Rome, Italy, also on a page of FAO.org).

Marie Béatrice Kenfack Tolevi, a Cameroonian, founded a NGO in 1992 that focuses on reproductive health, food and nutrition, human rights and equity. The Center listens and counsels the youth and teenagers.

It also has a clinic for adults to seek reproductive health advice.

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