Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

She says: “People rely on us, they come to us, write letters with appeals for help. That is why we take on even hopeless cases and, against all the odds, sometimes manage to succeed.”

Svetlana Gannushkina – Russian Federation

She works for the Komitet Grazhdanskaya pomoshch = the Civic Assistance refugee.ru, the russian committee for refugees.

Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1942) has been engaged in peace activism since the beginning of the Karabakh conflict (1988), helping to free hundreds of Azerbaijani and Armenian prisoners of war.

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

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Devaki Jain is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies in India, and an institution-builder who combines an academic vision with practical, even marketing, wisdom.

Devaki Jain – India.

She works for the Singamma Sreenivasan Foundation.

Devaki Jain (born 1933) is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies in India and an institution-builder who combines vision with practical wisdom. She is also a grassroots worker, despite a heavy schedule of national and international commitments. Apart from her academic work, Devaki has been involved in marketing products generated by rural women and training these women to market medicinal herbal plants.

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

She says: “One way to find peace is to understand that it is not natural for women to be in second place”.

Schuma Schumaher – Brazil.

She works for Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (REDEH). REDEH foi fundada em 1990.

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

She says: “Sex work is work.”.

Yim Yuet Lin joined the workforce in Hong Kong with only a few years of basic school education. In the late 70s, Yim started to be involved in the labor movement. She saw how workers were exploited and she herself faced unjust treatment from her employer. In 1996, Yim and three other friends founded Ziteng (“Chinese wisteria”), a sex workers’ concern group, which aims to provide support to sex workers.Yim Yuet Lin is a founding member of Ziteng (meaning “Chinese wisteria”), a sex workers concern group in Hong Kong. Since it was established in 1996, Yim has been working with this non-governmental organization, both in good times and in bad. Of the two sex workers’ organizations in Hong Kong, Ziteng is the more vocal one, particularly on issues relating to decriminalization of sex work and police abuses and injustices.

Yuet Lin Yim – Hong Kong

She works for Ziteng (Chinese wisteria), a Hong Kong-based sex worker’s interest group fighting for the destigmatization and decriminalization of sex.

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

She says: “In view of all the suffering, I prayed that the Lord would make me a artisan of peace and reconciliation”.

Sr Godelive Miburo – Burundi.

She works for New Life for Reconciliation VNR.

Sister Godelive Miburo runs two centers for orphans and follows up their integration into foster families.

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(or Kao Chin Su Mei)

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

She says: « The long history of unfair resources distribution and disrespect for cultural diversity has made aborigines lose sight of who they really are and what their future will be. ».

Kao Chin Su Mei – Taiwan

Kao Chin Su Mei (40) is a legislator who fights for the rights of aboriginals of Taiwan and Lanyu Islands. She is a member of the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan’s parliament) and has reactivated aborigine’s rights movements, silent for years. In 2004, Kao Chin consolidated the effort of aboriginal representatives in the Legislative Yuan to pass the Basic Law for Aboriginals. (Read this on 1000peacewomen).

… Kao Chin led a group of Taiwanese plaintiffs in a lawsuit in which the Osaka High Court ruled in September last year that the prime minister’s visits to Yasukuni Shrine constitute a violation of Article 20 of the Constitution that provides for the separation of religion and state … (Read all on Mainichi Interactive, August 14, 2006).

She is understood as a right-wing nationalist.

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

She says: « In the name of maintaining law and order, South African Police have used autocratic methods in dealing with criminals. These methods often fail them and the communities they are serving. »

Adelle Potgieter – South Africa

She works for the South African Police Services SAPS, for the Restoration of Human Abilities ROHA, and also for ‘Help Our People Excel Foundation’ (H.O.P.E. Foundation).

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

She says: “I am where pain is.”

Lidia Grafova – Russian Federation

She works for the Forum pieriesielienchieskikh organizatsyi (FPO)

Lidia Grafova, a Moscow journalist, has been active in providing help to forced migrants since the ethnic conflict in Azerbaijan triggered a wave of refugees.

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

She says: «  »Every child has the right to be secure, confident, and free. »

Yuki Ando – Japan

She works for the Child Abuse Prevention CAP, and for the Peace Violence Prevention Training Center.

Yuki Ando has combined her artistic talent, compassion for children, and teaching and organizational skills to protect Japan’s most vulnerable citizens: its children. She learned about a successful child abuse prevention program called CAP (Child Abuse Prevention), which uses role-play and other activities to teach children of all ages about their fundamental right to live free from emotional and physical violence. She adapted the program for Japan in 1994 and today 160 CAP groups are active throughout the country.

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

She says: “My fortune has come from society, thus it should go back to society. I will pay back to my motherland and my compatriots with all my heart.”

Yuzhen Chang – China

She works for Changji Store in Tangshan

From her modest beginnings selling soybeans Chang Yuzhen went on to become a successful businesswoman. She now puts the bulk of her wealth into helping others. Coming from a family of soldiers, she knows well their hardships and has set up a veterans’ home, a veterans’ welfare settlement, a soldiers’ resort village and an orphans’ village in the old Liberated Areas. She also set up an exhibition hall for patriotism education, an ecological garden for the protection of the environment, and has donated money to disaster-affected areas. (Read all on 1000peacewomen). Sorry, I can not reach other information in english about Yuzhen Chang, being certified to mean the right person.
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