Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

She says: « To preserve culture, the human being is the prime factor. If people in a community do not see the importance of safeguarding it, development is an empty word ».

Wai King Wong – Hong Kong SAR

She works as founding member for the Tai O Cultural Workshop.

A Hong Kong native, Wong Wai King is a housewife living in Tai O, a small fishing village on western Lantau Island, the largest outlying island of Hong Kong. She began her community services for the elderly and people with different abilities in her home village in the early 1980s. From 1990 onward, she has actively engaged in safeguarding the ecological environment of Tai O, challenging government- corporation collusion and patriarchal ideologies.

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Linked with Catholics for the Right to Decide.

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

She says: “In order to be able to help raped and maltreated women, they first have to recognize themselves as victims of violence”.

She tells: « The priest said: be patient, your husband may have had a bad day. Wait on him with joy and make him some good food. That was in opposition to what the Gospel states which is that violence is violence and that it cannot be justified ».

She maintains: « It was verified the fact that women have to bear the responsibility over sexuality ».

María del Carmen Sarthes – Argentina

She works for the Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir / Catholics for the Right to Decide.

She has been weaving for 23 years. Her name is María del Carmen Sarthes. She comes from Argentina. With this traditionally female activity, she weaves hope, fighting for the rights of women, children and adolescents. She supports raped and maltreated women, gives workshops and seminars about sexual and reproductive health and against violence. She marches, teaches, accompanies and continues weaving. She has a husband, four sons and female companions.

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Linked with The Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association BELA.

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

She says: « Earlier all I did was sit at home, cook and obey my husband’s orders. I never felt that I was of any worth! After joining this landless people’s group, I came out of the house, got to know other people and learnt the language of public speaking. Now, I do not think only about my own family, but also about the development of my country. Now, I am a person who can speak against injustice, mobilize people to join our struggle against corrupt machineries, and fight for poor peoples’ rights to life and livelihood ».

She also publicly raise questions: « Why should we not come out? We are not doing anything against the religion? » (The moulavi, head priest of the local mosque, warned Rahela’s husband, telling him that she was doing un-Islamic things, such as attending meetings with unknown men and going out on her own – bepurdah (without a veil). None of this served to stop Rahela.

Rahela Khatun – Bangladesh (even in the original size of this photo you could not see her face – too dark / hidden).

She works for the Noai Landless Women Organization, and for the Deluti Landless Union Committee.

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Linked with ASHTA SANSTHAN.

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

She says: ”It is a long way from Canada to working at the Indian grassroots with tendu patta (tobacco leaf) collectors and widows, and clashing with the authorities – but Ginny is finally home ».

Nobel Peace Prize nominee in Kingston to receive 2005 Queen’s Alumni Achievement Award, November 01, 2005, Kingston, ON – The Queen’s University Alumni Association recognized the outstanding accomplishments of Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Shrivastava Arts’63 by presenting her with the 2005 Alumni Achievement Award at a special ceremony in Kingston held at the University Club at Queen’s. Friends, family, and faculty and classmates from her Queen’s days were also on hand to celebrate this moment. (Read all on Queen’s University).

Read: Widow’s Stories, Kamal Patik age 40, A Leader in the Association of Strong Women Alone, Rajasthan, is the widow of the late Kailash Patik. (Read her story on widows rights).

Virginia/Ginny Shrivastava – India

She works for ASHTA SANSTHAN, for the Association of Strong Women Alone ASWA (named on GlobalHRs.org), and for the Budget Analysis Rajasthan Center BARC.

Virginia/Ginny Shrivastava, born Dobson, was born in Canada on 9 August 1942, the day Gandhi started the “Quit India Movement” to throw all foreigners out of India. She has been working with women in Rajasthan since 1970. The main driving force behind the Association of Strong Women Alone, a registered society of low-income single women, Ginny has focused on building the leadership capabilities of grassroots women. Also actively involved with tribal groups, Ginny mobilized them to pressure the government to give them minimum wages for collecting tendu patta (tobacco leaves), and helped them form a Tendu Patta Cooperative.

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Linked with the Association “ŽENA BIH”, Mostar, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hopes Betrayed, and with Trafficking Women and Children.

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

She says: « Everyone has duties to the community in which a free and integral development of one’s personality is possible ».

Azra Hasanbegovic – Bosnia and Herzegovina

She works for Žena Bosnia and Herzegovina/Žena BiH.

Since the beginning of the armed conflict in Mostar in April 1992, Azra Hasanbegovic helped organize small groups that assisted people most badly struck by the war. She initiated the women’s association Žena BiH, whose main mission is to struggle for women’s right to work. She also established the Agency for Free Legal Aid and Services and an SOS hotline. At the same time, she worked on documentation of the suffering of Mostar and Prozor women and submitted a detailed report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.Since the beginning of the armed conflict in Mostar in April 1992, Azra Hasanbegovic endeavored to establish a life, “a bit close to normal,” in a city suffering from chaos.

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Linked with Indigenous representatives campaign in Europe, with The Forum for the Defense of Indigenous Rights APOINME, with The World Rainforest Movement WRM, and with Aracruz Celulose and the World Cup: propaganda and deforestation.

See also: Alert against the Green Desert Movement, and Table of indigenous organisations of Brazil.

Maninha Xukuru-Kariri died on 11th octobre 2006 in the state OF Alagoas. She was experiencing respiratory problems, had a heart failure and was not treated quickly enough in the hospital of that city.

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

She said: “Society tries to deny indigenous origin. They took our land, our language and our beliefs. Today, we know who we are, what are our rights and the status we wish to occupy in the history”.

« Nós vivemos no estado do Alagoas, temos várias comunidades e vivemos da agricultura, … etc etc. Nossa área é de 10.000 metros e temos 1000 habitantes. Aqui você vai encontrar muitas histórias sobre nossas aldeias, participe, envie seus comentários ».

Maninha Xukuru-Kariri – Brazil (1966 – 2006)

She works for the Articulação dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Nordeste, Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo APOINME.

During the first days of 2005, an indigenous baby died of malnutrition. Less than a month later, in another indigenous settlement, a little girl was unable to reach age four. She also had nothing to eat. In two decades, Maninha Xukuru (born 1966) has challenged latifundiary land owners, politicians, unlawful land possessors and citizens in general. Her battle: to win back the land of her people, the Xukuru-Kariri. Her goal: to ensure the effectiveness of indigenous rights.

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Linked with Haiti and its problems, and with Pyepoudre Cultural Centre.

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

She says: “I want to create a place to dream, to open up the windows to the future, to nourish hope and spread the wings of regeneration”.

And: “From my point of view, one of the crucial threats to peace is the inability to think and to react against disagreements and failures, because that can make us fall into the temptation of despair and anger. In order to build a world in peace, and above all, to maintain this peace, we have to measure the nature of this state. I believe that each person, each one of us in our own field of action, can contribute to peace by promoting the necessary spiritual state, especially by promoting the principles of empathy, of active solidarity, of justice and equality“.

She says also: “I would like to take peace by its roots, bury it with my bare hands, water it with rain water, see its stem shooting up and its grains passing through thousands of other hands, see its leaves growing, and its white flowers singing and smiling to the world”.

Book: Le chant de Miraya, Paula Clermont-Péan.

Paula Clermont Péan – Haiti

She works for the Pyepoudre Cultural Center.
Actress, theater director, writer, professor of literature and theater, Paula Clermont Péan is the director of the Pyepoudre Cultural Center. It is a center for animation, training courses and public readings, founded by Paula, in Puerto Príncipe, in 1989. She was educated in France and in the United States. After returning to her home country, Haiti, she dedicated her work towards the promotion of popular culture and to the building of a network for the association of young people, affiliated to the Worldwide Federation of the Associations, Centers and Clubs of Unesco.Paula Clermont Péan has done things that anyone would consider personal successes.

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Linked with Byelorusskaya Assotsyatsya zhenshchin-yuristov BAZY.

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

She says: “The victory over the fear inside oneself is the first step towards freedom and happiness”.

Galina Drebezova – Belarus

She works for the Grazhdansky soyuz antibankrotnykh menedzherov GSAM, and for the Byelorusskaya Assotsyatsya zhenshchin-yuristov BAZY (Association of Women-Lawyers of Brest).

Galina Drebezova (born 1950) has worked as a lawyer for many years. In 1995 she headed the local branch of the Association of Women Lawyers in Brest, and was later to be elected its national chairwoman. She leads a major movement to protect the human rights of Byelorussian citizens. It was Galina who uncovered the rigged results of the referendum on the amendments to the Constitution (1996). Heading the Civil Union of Anti-Bankruptcy Managers (Bazy), she has earned the reputation of an excellent crisis manager. She is a deputy of the parliament.Galina was born in 1950 in Vitebsk region (Belarus). After graduating from the Belarus State University in Minsk, she worked for many years as a lawyer in this city’s industries.

In 1995 Galina began her private legal practise. She became the head of the regional organization of private lawyers. The next stage of her career was her election as president of Assotsyatsya zhenshchin-yuristov Bresta.

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

She says: « Disabled children have enormous potential, but it often goes unnoticed because of public ignorance and disregard ».

She says also: “In my work I am often disheartened and exhausted, particularly as the lack of funds and government support makes everything so difficult and frustrating, but somehow I cannot give up”.

And she says: “It is only when young people can learn to accept and share their lives with their less advantaged contemporaries that we can hope for a more just and humane world, where everyone can live in peace and harmony with one another. I believe that people with disabilities are not asking: ‘How can I be the same as you?’ All they are asking is, ‘Please give me your hand and travel with me!’ We need to hold hands and travel together, all the way.”

Find many of her publications on the University of the AEGEAN, on the Uni Trier-Server, on the ACM Digital Library, on the Manchester Metropole University, and on the Scientific Literature Digital Library.

Daphne Economou – Greece

She works for the Cerebral Palsy Greece (see World Wide Links), and for one of the two Societies: the International Cerebral Palsy Society ICPS, or the newly founded International Cerebral Palsy Society I.C.P.S..

Daphne Economou has worked to improve the lives of people with cerebral palsy in Greece, to increase public awareness and eliminate physical, social, and legal barriers. With her leadership, commitment and love, she is the inspiring heart and soul of Cerebral Palsy Greece and has pioneered a wide range of essential services.

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Linked with Responsible Wealth, and with the Global Fund for Women.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « I receive so much more from my work than I am able to give back. I live with gratitude that I get to do such transcendent and meaningful work ».

She says also: “Washington is handing out tax breaks to millionaires with one hand and shredding the safety net with the other. It’s obscene. » (see more on Responsible Wealth).

Marta Drury – USA

She works for the Heart and Hand Fund, for Responsible Wealth, and for the Global Fund for Women.

Marta Drury, who believes in the power of women to lead sustainable peacekeeping, provides support from her own personal resources to grassroots organizations throughout the world. She tells the stories of women who are making a difference, and created The Resourceful Women Awards, which honor and reward women who work at the frontlines. Marta is an outspoken member of Responsible Wealth, a national network of wealthy Americans who believe it is wrong to give tax breaks to the rich. Marta Drury, who believes in the power of women to lead sustainable peacekeeping, provides support through her Heart and Hand Fund to grassroots organizations throughout the world from her own personal resources. She tells the stories of women who are making a difference and created The Resourceful Women Awards, which honors and rewards women who work on the frontlines. Marta is an outspoken member of Responsible Wealth, a national network of wealthy Americans who believe it is wrong to give tax breaks to the rich.

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