Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

She says: « It is an honor to be able to speak up, for all of us ».

Kun Lei – Taiwan

She works for the Collevtive of Sex Workers and Supporters (Coswas).

Lei Kun (a pseudonym) began her transformative journey from sex worker to sex worker activist in 1997, when the Taipei City government decided to abolish licensed prostitution and declared its more than 120 licensed prostitutes illegal. She has transformed sex work into social movement activism. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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

It is said about her: « Huang is the most outstanding representative of women workers in the Taiwan autonomous trade union since the lifting of martial law in 1987 ».

Chiu Hsiang Huang – Taiwan, she must be one of the two women in the first line.

Huang Chiu Hsiang was born in a tea farmers’ family in the deep mountains of Hsin Chu County. Since 1987, she has been a key trade union leader and is a founding member of the Workers Party and the Labor Party. She has excellent communication and networking skills. She is committed to fighting gender discrimination, sexual harassment and violations of women workers’ rights in factories and within trade unions, and opposing legal amendments to reduce protection of women workers. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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

She says: « Both a successful therapy case and successful social action rely on the power of the persons involved to struggle against life’s limitations. ‘Struggle’ is necessary, it takes different forms ».

Lin Ching Hsia – Taiwan

She works for the Department of Applied Psychology, Fu-Jen Catholic University.

After studying overseas, Hsia Lin Ching brought new ideas to Taiwan, a country which had suffered from severe political suppression. Today, she works with sex workers and on community adult education, as well as on capacity building and social awareness among young people. She is professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, Fu-Jen Catholic University, and director of Lu Di Community University, Taipei Province.(Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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

She says: « My story is nothing. The spirit of those times is very important. I often think about how suffering can make humanity shine. »

Chin Yu Hsu – Taiwan

She works for the Gu Jinliang Cultural Foundation.

Hsu Chin Yu grew up in Taiwan during the period of the Japanese colonization. In the White Terror period in the 1950s, when many intellectuals, workers and peasants were charged as spies, communist bandits and traitors, she entered a reading club, and took part in the labor movement. Later she was arrested and imprisoned for 15 years, which changed her life. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).

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

She says: « If we treasure human dignity and value life, we must take action now and make a choice to transform and resist the present forces that deny life and destroy community ».

Lo Sai « Rose » Wu – China, Hong Kong SAR

She works for the Hong Kong Christian Institute (Hkci), and for the Civil Human Rights Front (Chrf).

Rose Wu Lo Sai (54) works in the field of community development. She has brought civil and community concerns to the Church since the 80s. An educator, feminist and Christian social activist, Rose is founder and leader of several NGOs that work for gender equity, social justice, political and civil rights and against poverty. She was convener of the Civil Human Rights Front in 2002-04, an alliance of NGOs instrumental in organizing the rally on 1 July 2003 when over 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against government bureaucracy and the controversial draft National Security Bill. A devoted feminist and Christian social activist, Rose (54) began her community service as an educator.

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

She says: « I shall not stand aloof from the peasants and the transient migrant workers and give instructions about what is to be done. I shall be one with them ».

Ling Zhao – China

She works for the Peasants’ Children – China Rural Development and Promotion Association, Beijing Normal University.

Zhao Ling was born in 1980 and is now president of the Peasants’ Children – China Rural Development and Promotion Association in Beijing Normal University. For many years she has been concerned about the education of migrant workers’ children. She organizes educational activities for these children, and conducts surveys of college students aimed at supporting peasants. Her actions inspire many college students to be concerned about agriculture, rural areas and peasants, as well as the conditions of migrant workers from the countryside. Such activities have now spread throughout the country. Zhao Ling is an only child whose family belongs to Chongqing City in Sichuan Province. Before she entered college, Zhao Ling led a fairly sheltered life under her parents’ protection, and her attitude to life reflected the privileged existence she had led. She knew nothing, for example, about how crops were grown or harvested, she couldn’t tell the difference between two types of grain, and had probably never noticed the scent of flowers and the singing of birds. She was allowed to do nothing but study. Thus her childhood and teenage years were, as she described it, as dim and depressed as the rainy weather in Chongqing city.

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

She says: « Life is a never-ending learning process. I learned everyone is unique, yet everyone has equal rights. I learned it is essential to defend such rights, to respect the rich diversity of cultures ».

Ruth Weiss – Germany

An exemplary biography of the 20th century: Ruth Weiss is born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1924. In 1936, she arrives in South Africa with her family and experiences the development of apartheid. She defies the system with her typewriter, quietly but with determination, in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Europe. She does research, reports, forms friendships, participates in projects to overcome racism. Her strongest quality: she listens. Listening is the basis for understanding, understanding paves the way to reconciliation – a model for peace that can be applied globally.

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Linked with WEST PAPUA, the forgotten story of a people in crisis, and with Agenda, Empowering Women for Gender Eqity.

And linked also with Statement … The West Papua Case, with Petition Letter the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, with Yan Christian Warinussy – Indonesia, and with Crisis Center SAG SULUTTENG.

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

It is said about her: Paula has faced many hardships with determination.

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Paula Makabory – Indonesia

She works for Elsham.

Paula Makabory was born in Manokwari in West Papua in 1970, a year after the divisive “Act of Free Choice” led to Indonesian control of the territory of West Papua. She is the ninth of 12 siblings raised in a devout, modest Protestant family. She graduated in 1997 from the only state-run university in the region, Cendrawasih University, where she majored in English literature. During her college years, Paula became interested in social issues in particular human rights and women’s rights. Shortly after graduation, she joined Elsham, a determined and bold human rights NGO based in the provincial capital, Jayapura. When Elsham offered her a job, Paula accepted without hesitation.

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Linked with Mongolian Women’s NGO Coalition.

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

She says: “Be a model of being healthy mentally and in the heart by the way of self-development”.

Semjidmaa Damba – Mongolia

She works for the Mongolian Union of Vulnerable Group Business Women, mentionned as ‘Association of Business Women of Vulnerable Group’ on the Mongolian Women’s NGO Coalition.

Born in 1943 to a nomadic Buryat family in Mongolia, Semjidmaa Damba was an enthusiastic student who chose to become a telecommunications engineer. Her diploma work at the Odessa Institute (former Soviet Union) in 1967 helped to considerably improve local automatic telephone stations in Mongolia. Semjidmaa taught telecommunications and information technology for many years, but stopped when she lost her working capacity because of disability. Her spirit, however, remained strong and soon she started, alongside other women, the Mongolian Union of Vulnerable Group Business Women.Semjidmaa Damba belongs to the Buryat ethnic branch of the Mongolian nation.

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Linked with Globalization and the Eradication of Poverty, with Human Rights as Education for Peace, with Netherlands Plans Public Muslim Veil Ban, with U.S. Changing Course In Iraq?, with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN – Nigeria, and with The harm at home and abroad.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « A world without war is too important to be the responsibility of any single government, no matter how powerful.

Our challenge is to find one shared humanity in the face of our diversity ».

She says also: « Peace consolidation is an uncertain enterprise. It is one thing to agree to a ceasefire, and quite another to move from there to a point where societies can resolve conflicts through inclusive governance without reverting to armed combat. This year we have seen many examples –from Timor Leste to the Solomon Islands , Afghanistan to Iraq , the process of establishing a secure peace appears even more difficult than it did a year ago. With the setting up of the Peace Building Commission, the UN has strengthened its peacebuilding architecture, increasing coherence in fulfilling its peacebuilding mandate. But today we must ask what else is urgently needed, and how Security Council resolution 1325 could be more effectively implemented to bring about just and sustainable peace ». (Read more on maxim’s news).

Read: WOMEN’S ROLES IN PEACE.

Noeleen Heyzer – USA

She works for the United Nations Development Fund for Women Unifem, the Development Alternative for Women for a New Era DAWN, and the Asia Pacific Women in Law and Development.

Read: High Level Panel Approves UN Agency for Women Proposal.

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