Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

Linked with Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development ACORD.

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

She says: « Hagukora ikibi wogikorerwa … It is better for one to suffer than to make someone else suffer. »

Marie Rose Cimpaye – Burundi

She works for Habamahoro.

Marie Rose Cimpaye, of the Tutsi ethinic group, was born in 1961 in Karuzi, Burundi. She enjoyed the good relations among her neighbors, until they fled for their lives in 1993. That was a shock that triggered her to action. She decided to act to create a better life for all.

She now has to strive to regain the lost social environment. With her friend and neighbor she founded a women’s association, Habamahoro, meaning « Let there be peace ». She is of the Tutsi ethinic group and was born in 1961 in Karuzi, Burundi.

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Linked with Consortium de Solidarité avc Madagascar CdSM.

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

She says: “The people possess the cultural wealth and know-how and have unexploited potential and they must be supported so that they can take control of the country’s development”.

She says also: « The peoples possess the cultural wealth, know-how and unexploited potential that must be supported so that they can take into their own hands the development of their territory”.

Lalao Flaurence Randriamampionona – Madagascar

She works for

* the Coalition of Women Associations DRV (not any reference found by Google in english, allowing being sure of the text).

* also for the NGO Fiantso (Fikambanana Andrin’ny Tambazotra sy ny Olom-pirenena = Support to Citizen Networking), mentionned:

• – on ‘Astrid in Madagascar’;
• – on icco.eu;
• – in the annual report MISONGA;
• – on euforic;
• – or on diam penina.

* and for the NGO Taratra, mentioned:

• – on madatsara.com;
• – on ropepump.com;
• – on auzoma.com.

(I have strongly re-structered this peacewomen-text): For the last ten years, Lalao Flaurence Randriamampionona (64), an anthropologist and sociologist, has been actively involved in diverse development activities involving women, children and the most impoverished in Madagascar. She lives in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The last born of five children, she was born to two teachers. She is married to an engineer, has one child and one grandchild.

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Linked with The Action Asia Network.

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

She says: « I am frustrated with people who say that there is nothing you can do about a particular issue and thus, do very little. I do not want to be like that » … and: « I saw these terrible pictures of Cambodian children and adults starving while I always had food on the table » … and: « Several organizations, government, trade unions and NGOs, have theories of their own. So even when they are in the same room, they have conflicts ».

Emma Leslie – Cambodia

She works for Action Asia Network.

Emma Leslie (born 1971), an Australian actively engaged in peace building and conflict transformation, came to Cambodia in 1997 and helped develop a peace education curriculum for Cambodian high schools and peace training programs. Emma and her colleagues established Action Asia Network, a regional network of peace builders, focused on supporting people living in violent conflict.

She also works internationally in conflict transformation through the South Africa-based Action International and the UK-based organization Responding to Conflict RTC. Emma Leslie was introduced to Cambodia at the age of eight when she learned about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime. Eighteen years later, Emma came to work in this country, to contribute to its reconstruction and peace building.

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Linked with Rashida Bee – India.

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

Champa Devi Shukla has been a leading figure in the international campaign seeking justice for the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide Gas Tragedy in Bhopal. Starting with protests and rallies in India, Champa took her fight against Union Carbide Company (UCC) and its partner, Dow Chemicals, to the streets of New York and other American cities. Dow Chemicals is today fighting a series of cases filed by Champa and other protesters.

Champa Devi Shukla – India

Champa was awarded the 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize for bringing the Bhopal disaster to the international center stage. It has been over two decades since the Union Carbide methyl isocyanate gas leak killed more than 30,000 people in Bhopal – the worst industrial disaster in history. The survivors, and the subsequent generations, continue to suffer the consequences of the disaster. But in 52-year-old Champa Devi Shukla, the survivors found new hope. For 19 years now, she has been a leading figure in the international campaign to seek justice for the victims.

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Linked with Champa Devi Shukla – India.

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

She says: “A woman’s life involves discarding relationships that she has known from infancy and adopting strangers as her own … If she can face the world outside at such a fundamental level, then why should any other struggle for empowerment scare her”.

Rashida Bee – India

Rashida Bee is a leading personality in the global campaign to secure justice for the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide Gas Tragedy in Bhopal, the biggest industrial disaster in history. Rashida took her fight with Union Carbide Company and its giant partner, Dow Chemicals, to the streets of New York. Dow Chemicals is battling a series of cases that Rashida and other protestors filed against it.

Rashida received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004 for internationally center-staging the Bhopal disaster. On December 3, 1984, the Union Carbide Company’s (UCC) methyl isocyanate gas leak (MIC) progressively killed more than 30,000 people in Bhopal, the worst and most shameful industrial disaster in history. Among many others, 48-year-old Rashida Bee, a providential survivor, has been a leading personality in the global campaign to get justice for the survivors, direct and indirect.

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

She says: « The photos of the prisoners humiliated by the Americans in Iraq remind me of my husband tortured in 1976, when the Argentinean military tied him up and took him on parade » … and: « With our companions in Switzerland and Spain, we are working to build ‘The place for ex-political prisoners’. It will be a place to recover the historical memory of what has happened ».

Mirta Susana Clara – Argentina

She works for the Municipal Government of Buenos Aires, and for the Lanas National University.

After six years in prison, Mirta Clara, her daughter and son, and the rest of society, slowly, began to become familiar with each other again. Her husband had been killed by the Argentinean military regime (1976-1983). Through her professional specialty, psychology, she tries to construct inclusive policies to help the people excluded by society. Some of them have been affected directly or indirectly by genocide, others have been excluded by unemployment and its consequences, the greatest of which is poverty.

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

She says: « We strengthen the position of women by giving them a dependable income and thus improving the chances of their children » … « I learned to weave from my mother when I was six years old, and I loved it » … « I met many desperately poor families displaced from rural areas without any marketable skills, so I started to teach the women how to weave silk » … « Our greatest challenge is to compete against cheaper, low-quality » … imports ».

Read: the cycle of silk production.

Kommaly Chanthavong – Laos

She works for the Phontong cooperative for the production of silk, with the Lao Sericulture Company named Mulberries.

Kommaly Chantavong (born 1950) is a farmer’s daughter from the mountains of eastern Laos. When her village was bombed by the Americans in 1961, she fled to Vientiane. In 1976, she founded a cooperative for the production of silk, which she still heads. The cooperative teaches mostly women traditional skills in raising silkworms, making natural dyes and weaving traditional patterns. The successful marketing of the products provides a fair and steady income to several hundred families that used to be very poor.

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Linked with West African Network for Peacebuilding WANEP.

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

She says: « The exclusion of women in early crisis talks was a huge mistake. It is now up to the women of Ivory Coast to correct that mistake ».

Read: Her texts on UNjobs. (full text).

Dandi Lou Hélène Amanan – Cote d’Ivoire

She works for the Women in Peacebuilding Network WIPNET, (exists also in french), and for Vision et action des femmes africaines contre les guerres VAFAG.

Hélène Amanan served as a secretary of the permanent mission of the Ivory Coast for the United Nations in New York, was an international official (1992-1999) in charge of coordination of social affairs and protection of refugees for the High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ivory Coast and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was coordinator of the program Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding.

Since 2004, Madame Dandi has been the French regional adviser (West Africa) of the Network of African Women for Peace. The goal of Madame Dandi Lou’s NGO is to involve African women in building peace, preventing or managing conflict and giving urgent help to vulnerable people (women, children, refugees, handicapped, elderly people). As it’s leader, she worked on a national and international plan to deliver the message to women affected by the wars.

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

She says: « It is not wise to establish a group of underprivileged people. Even if these people can, or are forced to, move back to their homeland, it is better that they learn something here ». And: « I used to be able to buy subway tickets for people. Nowadays I have to think about being able to afford lunch », is how she describes her situation. (1000PeaceWomen).

Ute Bock erhält 15’200 Euro, 28. Dezember 2006. Oft wurden wir in den letzten Wochen gefragt, wieviel Geld wir nun spenden können. Jetzt sind die Abrechnungen endlich abgeschlossen und wir können uns über einen gewaltigen Betrag von 15.200 Euro für die Ute Bock und ihr Flüchtlingsprojekt freuen! (full text).

Read in german: Solidarität mit Frau Bock – Eine Aktion des WBDS.

Ute Bock – Austria

Ute Bock worked professionally for many years as a social worker and educator/teacher, before she became director of the Zohmanngasse Home in Vienna in 1976.. In the early 1990s, she started to take care of teenage immigrants. She also took in underage refugees from countries at war, who came to Austria on their own looking for asylum. Ute Bock was the last hope for many teenage immigrants for whom nobody else cared. Her small project has grown into a community of 50 apartments where over 200 people find a home. She has also provided a legal address and legal aid for more than 1000 immigrants so that they can pursue their asylum procedures.

She was born in Linz, Austria in 1942.

In the early 1990s, Ute Bock started to take care of teenage immigrants, who were sent to her by the youth welfare office. At first, they were mostly children of immigrant workers. But soon enough she also took in underage immigrants from countries at war, who came to Austria on their own looking for asylum. Zohmanngasse and Ute Bock were the last hope for many teenage immigrants for whom nobody else cared.

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Linked with Women living under Muslim laws,
and with The Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Centre.

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

She says: « I am touched by the number of women and people who tell me I touched them through my work ».

Read: Scoping Study on Social Exclusion.

She says also: « Women Living under Muslim Laws (an NGO) views ‘Fundamentalism’, above all, as a political project. All forms of what is called ‘fundamentalism’ are ultimately political projects of appropriation of the public, social and personal spaces in which we exist – with the goal of gaining political and economic power. Sometimes such projects aim to maintain power and sometimes to challenge power. The critical element, however, in understanding these forces that are lumped together under the banner of ‘Fundamentalism’, is to analyze them from the perspective of power ». (full text).

Read: Asian Women in Muslim Societies, Perspectives & Struggles.

Farida Shaheed – Pakistan

She works for the Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Centre, and for the Women Living under Muslim Laws WLUML.

The Women Action Forum (WAF) worker Farida Shaheed alleged that the government was fanning Talibanisation. She said General Musharraf was furthering the agenda of General Ziaul Huq. She said the government was depriving the masses of their basic human rights. “As lawyers and the masses struggle for the restoration of the basic human rights and democracy in the country,” She said. “Extremists take violent steps to undermine those rights.” Commenting on the assault on Dr Amina Butter, she said, it was condemnable. (full text).

Read: Militarization & Global Conflict – A Different Perspective.

And she says: « Further, many « fundamentalist » projects would not be able to exist if they did not have linkages and were not supported by other groups that you would not normally consider to be « fundamentalist. » These forces exist at the national and local level. At home, for example, we can see that the bankruptcy of the political parties has helped to bring about and give force to extremist elements by creating a void – a space filled by extremist elements.

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