Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

Linked with Uzazi na Malezi Bora Tanzania UMATI, and with Tanzania Association of NGOs TANGO.

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

She says: “The approach to population and development should be interdisciplinary. Learn people’s priorities and become their partners in development. That approach will promote a peaceful and hopeful future”.

She says also: “Even at an early age, I wished something could be done to alleviate the suffering,” she recalls. “As I grew up the memories of the misery experienced by families in my community stayed with me. Later I realized that the situation also existed in other communities in Tanzania and other developing countries in the world”.

Christina Nsekela – Tanzania

She works for the Family Planning Association of Tanzania UMATI (described on Cambridge Journals), the Tanzania Association of Non-Governmental Organisations TANGO, and the Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises Tanzania PRIDE, see also this link.

And she says: “I believe that if the they are enabled to access financial facilities without collateral and unnecessary bureaucracy, the world will witness change and improvement in the lives of poor and vulnerable communities”.

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Linked with Ankur.

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

Not for nothing is 75-year-old Shanta still revered as ‘the dharna (protest) lady’ and as ‘Shanta toofani’ (thunderous=indefatigability), as a huge range of issues defines her work.

Shanta Devi – India

She works for the Ankur-Society for Alternatives in Education.

Shanta Devi’s work with nonformal education is driven by her conviction that education is essential to a person’s understanding of the world. She worked alone, and then with the Ankur-Society for Alternatives in Education, trying to reach out, particularly to women, children, and youth. Beside having supported human rights issues, Shanta campaigns for slum dwellers’ rights, supporting HIV+ persons, sexual minorities, and fighting for nuclear disarmament. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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Linked with the Colombian Indian Organizations ONIC.

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

She says: “The people of our ethnic groups are only happy in the forest, where we have our roots. The forest keeps our traditions alive. We want to return. We cannot live in villages or urban places”.

She says also: “It was very sad to see my people suffering from hunger, when in the forest we had everything”.

« Do you envy something of the beauty of the western woman?” they asked her on a television program. « No », she responded safely: « We are beautiful as we are ».

Hilda Liria Domicó Bailarín – Colombia

She works for Multiethnic Organization of Antioquia.

Hilda Domicó (30), is a displaced Colombian. She was born into the Embera-Katio ethnic group.
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Linked with Guinea Bissau Leaders Seek New Strategies for Donor Money.

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

She says: « My faith is my strength. But having said that, I am convinced that religion has become a tool used to regulate our society ».

She says also: « You know when you have a vision and you tell people and they have to think about it, especially in terms of Guinea Bissau that nobody now believes that it is capable of staying away from conflict definitively ».

Macaria Barai – Guinea-Bissau

She works for the Women In Peace-building Network WIPNET, the Chamber of Commerce of Guinea-Bissau, and for Citoyens de bonne volonté.

A national of Guinea-Bissau, Madame Macaria Barai is very devoted and always available to give people her time. Having studied in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, today she lives with her mother and her children and has 15 years of experience in fighting for peace on the one hand and on the other hand fighting for the emancipation of Guinea-Bissau women.

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Linked with the Tamera Peace Village, and with IGF Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit.

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

She says: « We must develop a new system of living together, where one can learn to live in peace in an elementary way. My longing was great and it would not let me adapt to the usual system of normality ».

She says also: “In order to achieve planetary peace, we need a new relationship between the sexes. There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love. Communities of the future are based on the development of a balance between male and female forces.”

Sabine Lichtenfels – Portugal

She works for the Tamera Peace Village, and she heads the Institute for Global Peace Work / (Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit).

And she says (about Israel-Palestina): “It is not only a question of reconciliation, but of a new perspective. The people involved must realize that their distress is a part of a global problem.
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Linked with about the European Civil Society.

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

She says: « It is imperative there should be kindness towards truths other than ours ».

She says also: « “We have founded the club (Don Quixote) because we say ‘no’ to conformism. We want to encourage people who live differently, who are in minority To exist fully is to exist according to one’s values, often against those of others”.

Maria Szyszkowska – Poland

She works for the Internationale Gesellschaft ‘System der Philosophie’, for the , and for the Don Quixote Club.

Maria Szyszkowska, is a senator, professor, philosopher, lecturer, and writer. She lives according to Kant’s philosophy that law should guarantee freedom for everyone.
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Linked with Nijera Kori.

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

She says: « It is the people themselves who have resisted this invasion into their communities and their lives. We came to strengthen the movement, add voice, and support it ».

Read: In celebration of friendship.

Khushi Kabir (left) – Bangladesh, with Karen Seabrooke

She works for Nijera Kori.

Khushi Kabir (born 1948) embodies the very spirit of the socioeconomic empowerment of women, peace, and democracy in Bangladesh. For more than 30 years, she has been involved with working-class rural communities on issues ranging from people’s control over their own resources, challenging antipeople policies and programs, secularism, and human rights. She has been integral to the forging of strong national coalitions of civil society groups, and the creation and sustenance of global networks and coalitions for human rights, gender equality, and democracy.

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Linked with Foundation for Tolerance International FTI.

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

She says: « My desire to help my community, my belief in equality and justice remain central for me. I want to see Kyrgyzstan as an example of peace, equality, and tolerance for the entire region ».

She says also: « If you really love your country, if you really want the people to live in peace, if you really care about your children and your family, you have to do something if you see something wrong around you ». (Read all on peace-sandiego.edu).

Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan

She works for the Foundation for Tolerance International FTI.

Raisa (Raya) Kadyrova (born 1957) is the president and founder of the Kyrgyz NGO Foundation of Tolerance International (FTI), operating within the cross-border communities of Central Asia.
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Linked with The Sisters in Islam SIS, with TAM – The American Muslim, with Women’s learning partnership, and with Sisters in Islam’s battle.

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

She says: « I want to live in a society that celebrates our plurality, our differences, our diversity and sees that as a blessing instead of a threat ».

She says also: (I am) … « trying to reconcile the teachings of Islam with human rights principles. It’s a work in progress … It’s very gratifying when people tell us, ‘If not for you, we would think that Islam is such a terrible religion, it is because of your work that we think that there is hope in Islam’, that Islam actually stands for justice, for equality ».

And she adds: « There are plenty of decent people out there who feel this way, it is time for us [moderate Muslims] to reclaim the religion from those who have hijacked it to perpetrate violence ».

She is SIS’ executive director and founding member. Read her text of 1997: modern and moderate Islam. The same is also on AsiaWeek.

Zainah Anwar – Malaysia

She works for The Sisters In Islam SIS (promotes women’s rights within Islam).

Read: Portraits of ordinary Muslims: Malaysia.

With a group of women, Zainah Anwar wanted to find out if it was true that Islam discriminates against women. Turning to the Koran, they found that it advocates justice, equality, dignity and freedom. So they set up Sisters in Islam (SIS) which promotes women’s rights within Islam.

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

She says: « We believe that the science of learning covers both science and learning ».

Lucie Cheng – Taiwan

She works for the College of Journalism and Communications at Shixin University.

Lucie Cheng is publisher of both Li Newspaper and Pots, dean of the College of Journalism and Communications at Shixin University, president of Bibliography Literature Publishing Inc, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She served Chinese workers in Chinatown in the USA before she returned to Taiwan to inherit the Li Newspaper from her father. She opened the Social Development Research Institute at Shixin University and has promoted a series of alternative multimedia courses. She has been active in social and women’s movements for 30 years. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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