Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

She says: « “We should preserve in adults the confident and joyful attitude of small children.”

Patricia Verdugo Aguirre – Chile

Patricia Verdugo is a Chilean journalist and writer. She has oriented her work towards human rights, covering the period before, during and after the military government (1973-1990), and to the promotion of democracy. Since 1979, she has written more than ten books concerning what happened during the dictatorship in Chile. She has received a number of awards: in 1997, in Chile, the National Journalism Prize; in 1993, in the United States, the María Moors Cabot Prize; and in 2000, the Latin American Studies Association recognized her work.

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Linked with Ensuring Peace through Justice, and with the International Criminal Court in The Hague ICC.

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

She says: “I am an optimist. I am completely convinced that some day the earth will be a better place to live in”.

Elizabeth Odio Benito – Costa Rica

She works for the International Criminal Court in The Hague ICC.

See her bio on wikipedia.

She said also: « If I am nominated by my country and subsequently elected as a judge on the ICC, I would devote particular attention to the progressive interpretation of the norms in the Statute, above all, to those concerning sexual crimes against women.

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Linked with Alarmed at rising violence in Sri Lanka, and with AGHS Legal Aid Cell.

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

Lawyer Hina Jilani, who began practicing law during the martial law regime in 1979, has set standards for human rights protection, and for her own profession.

Hina Jilani – Pakistan

She works for AGHS Legal Aid Cell.

She says: « I was doing a lot of work with women in prisons. After this particular law came in, the involvement of women in the criminal justice system was much greater than ever before. The number of women in prison had swelled.

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Linked with UNICEF – Global Movement for Children.

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

She says: “We cannot be spectators of the events. We cannot wait for other people to do what we should do ourselves”.

Sandra Jiménez Loza – Mexico

And she says: “I saw my life in another way because, in spite of my limitations, in spite of my disability, I have everything.

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Linked with Peace x Peace.org, and with Search for Common Ground Burundi.

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

She says: “They say: ‘Stop! We are just like any other children and we did not choose to live on the streets”.

Christine Ntahe – Burundi

She works for ‘Search for Common Ground Burundi‘.

Christine Ntahe was born in 1949 and is regarded as « mother” of street children in Burundi. For 30 years she worked as a journalist and manager with Radio Télévision Nationale de Burundi (RTNB).

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Linked with Interview with Duong Thu Huong – Viet Nam.

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

Duong Thu Huong est la romancière du Vietnam la plus connue au monde. Depuis qu’elle a été emprisonnée sept mois en 1991, et qu’elle doit sa libération à l’intervention de personnalités occidentales, elle n’est plus éditée dans son pays. Elle vit à Hanoi. Elle n’est pas, au sens strict du terme, en résidence surveillée, précise son traducteur, Phan Huy Duong : «Elle se déplace comme elle veut, mais elle a deux policiers en permanence devant chez elle, jour et nuit, qui interpellent ses visiteurs, rapportent ses conversations.

Duong Thu Huong – Viet Nam

See: 14 books of her on Amazon.

Elle ne peut pas avoir de vie privée.» Les romans de Duong Thu Huong ne paraissent plus au Vietnam mais à l’étranger. Rencontre avec une dissidente, entre engagement et littérature.

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Linked with US or UN?, and with Who rules the World? Project Imperialism.

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

She says: « Women are half of the world’s population, do two-thirds of the work, get one-tenth of the income, and are the owners of one per cent of the property. »

Krishna Ahooja-Patel – India

She works for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

And she says: “We are going to eliminate racism within the organization and train women in conflict areas to be leaders and part of the peace process.” (Read all on smu.ca).

And also: « We are not recognising the multi-identity of a human being …

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Linked with Haiti’s Election – Looking Back.

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

She says: « The overwhelming majority of women need to fight with determination against social inequalities.”

And: “I firmly believe that the overwhelming majority of women need to fight with determination against social inequalities,” states Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste in her autobiographical notes. She is a nanny, social worker and activist for human rights in Haiti. “

Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste – Haiti

She works for the Clinic for Women of Kafou Fèy.

Read the 154 pages pdf-text ‘Haiti held hostage … ‘.

Read also the 368 pages pdf-text ‘E.W. Vedrine’s Complete Works, including works on Haitian Creole (1992-2005), DIPLOMAS AND THE HAITIAN DIPLOMÉS’ MISSION, (by Emmanuel W. Vedrine), Dec. 13, 2004′.

Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste is a nanny, social worker and activist for human rights from Haiti. In 1991, during the state military coup that attempted to re-establish Jean-Claude Duvalier as life president (a post inherited from his father), soldiers burst into the hospital where she worked, shooting. Rose-Anne risked her life saving the wounded.

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Linked with the Deutsch-tschechisches Forum der Frauen, and with Knihovna – Liberec in Czech Republic.

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

She says: « Each one of us – like our destiny – is unique, but not exceptional. »

Vera Vohlidalova – Czech Republic

She works for the Research Library of Liberec by Building of Peace and Reconciliation; für das Deutsch-Tschechisches Forum der Frauen = Frauen-Netzwerk für den Frieden, and for the Reconciliation Project for the Euroregion Neisse-Nysa-Nisa.

Knowledge, human rights and reconciliation are the decisive forces in the life of Vera Vohlidalova is “a product of Europe,” a witness to our recent warring and turbulent history who has decided to speak out.

Her German mother and Czech father were both active antifascists. After the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, her parents emigrated to London, where Vera was born in 1942. Soon after the war was over the family returned to Liberec (formerly Reichenberg) and experienced the expelling of the Germans.

Vera became a librarian. She was 26 years old when, during the Prague Spring of 1968, the desire for change was abruptly destroyed by Warsaw Pact tanks. Vera was among the many who protested. Pregnancy and motherhood saved her from dismissal and prison. Under strict political control and for low wages, she was able to continue working in the information office of the regional hospital of Liberec. Vera brought the existing documentation up to date and smuggled in forbidden foreign literature.

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

She says: « All of us in our own countries, cities, villages, and families can improve the lives around us. My mission is to communicate this so women will join forces for prosperity and peace in the world. »

A 132 page pdf, Dec. 05: UNECE.org – Country Gender Assessment, Uzbekistan.

Adiba Kamiljonovna Akhmedjanova – Uzbekistan

She works for Sodruzhestvo, and for the Association of Women Farmers .

Adiba Akhmedjanova (born 1955) initiated the Women’s Club of International Friendship called Sodruzhestvo (Cooperation) to bring women from different national origins together and promote mutual understanding. Uzbek women from villages can meet people from other countries and become familiar with the culture of different nations. She also founded an association for leadership development for girls and the Association of Women Farmers in the Tashkent Province. She provides women with assistance in the fields of human rights, legal advice and help in setting up small business enterprises.

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