Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

She says: « You do not have to strip off your identity in order to achieve your goals. People should be judged for what they are and do, not the way they look. »

Sheika Lubna Al Qasimi – United Arab Emirates

She works for the Tejari.com; the UAE Ministry of Economy & Planning (UAEMEP); and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI).

Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi obtained a BS from California State University of Chico, and a MBA from the American University of Sharjah. She was the CEO of Tejari.com, one of the giant successful business-to-business marketplaces in the U.R.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi became the first woman minister of the UAE. She has a global reputation and a well-connected network both at home and abroad. She lectures in universities worldwide, putting her emphasis on equal rights of gender. Sheikha Lubna is a role model to young women in the UAE with an inspiring charisma for young girls. (Read on the Nobel Peace Price 2005).

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Linked with our presentation of The Women Institute Initivative in Nigeria.

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

Goes with ‘Assuming Authority‘.
She says: « If you want to work with the rural women on communication issues, you have to speak their language. And their language is the language of survival. »

Limota Goroso Giwa (Hajiya) – Nigeria

She works for the International Women’s Communication Center (IWCC).

Limota Goroso Giwa, born in Ilorin, in Kwara state of Nigeria, was raised by fishing grandparents. Her father, an imam (leader for Muslim prayers), died when she was 11. She studied human rights at the University of Columbia and obtained her masters in social planning. A senior advocate on women’s rights and coordinator of women and fishery projects in riverine communities in Nigeria, she occupies several humanitarian posts, among them coordinator of the Pan-African and West African Women. In addition, Goroso Giwa addresses issues around the trafficking of Kwara women to Saudi Arabia.

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

She says: « Love and kindness will prove to be the successful tools of peace building. Every day thousands of ordinary people all over the world work diligently for the world to be a better place. »

She works for Medica – the Women’s Therapy Center in Zenica.

Marjana Senjak – Bosnia and Herzegovina

In August 1992, Marjana Senjak established the Center for Psychological Help in Zenica. She initiated cooperation among her professional colleagues and began working at collective refugee centers. She and her colleagues established a SOS hotline for people with war traumas, also for soldiers. In 1993, Marjana co-founded the Medica Zenica Center for treatment of women survivors of rape and people suffering from war trauma.

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

Linkd with our two presentations Malalai Joya’s Historical Speech in the Loya Jirga, and The Hamoon Health Center in Afghanistan.

Malalai Joya, one of the prominent winners in Afghanistan’s landmark parliamentary elections, is an outspoken critic of the country’s warlords.

She says: »Women in Afghanistan are in exigent need of peace. I believe that once peace is achieved, they can get their full rights. » And: « I hope by being a member of parliament I will be able to serve my people, especially the women. I will do my best to stop the warlords and criminals from building any laws that will jeopardise the rights of Afghan people, especially the women. »

Malalai Joya – Afghanistan

She works for the Hamoon Health Center. And she heads the non-governmental group, « Organisation of Promoting Afghan Women’s Capabilities » (OPAWC).

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

Linked with our presentation of Crisis Center SAG SULUTTENG.

She says: « Humanity is universal. Do not think of only one particular group that needs to be rescued; we should try to make everybody survive. »

Julien Florence Mona Saroinsong – Indonesia

She works for the Crisis Center SAG SULUTTENG.

Julien Florence Mona Saroinsong (born 1958) is a full-time lecturer and researcher at a university in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia and a volunteer at the Crisis Center of Sinode Am church network. In 2001, when thousands of refugees from violent conflicts in Poso, Central Sulawesi and Maluku poured into North Sulawesi, Mona visited refugees and used her networks as a church activist to provide them with assistance. She also trained volunteers and refugees in trauma healing and organized dialogues between conflicting religious communities in Poso and Maluku.

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

She says: The dark labyrinths of India’s prison system would never have been exposed to sunlight had Kiran Bedi not exercised her humaneness and her unique approach to rehabilitation.

Kiran Bedi – India

She works at Tihar Prison. In 1994, she set up the India Vision Foundation, an NGO that works on prison reform, drug abuse prevention, empowerment of women, and assistance to the mentally disabled.

See also her bio on kiranbedi.com, with a video to be shown.

And see this other good bio about her.

Kiran Bedi (born 1949) is India’s best-known woman police officer. In a ferociously male bastion, she has dug in her heels, using the police service as a vehicle for social change. Kiran, with her firm footing, has been also using the police service as a medium for social change. She sees prisons and jails as an opportunity to bring criminals back to society’s fold, reversing the dehumanization for which prisons are known. She began meditation classes and education and vocational training programs for prison inmates and put in place an unprecedented democratic panchayat system in prisons.

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

linked with our presentation NGOs and Groups working for Albania.

Linked also to the presentation of NGO’s Protest for Women’s Rights in Albania.

She says: « Another world is possible! »

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Sevim Arbana – Albania

She works for the Group ‘Useful to Albanian Women’ (UAW); and for the ‘Woman Bridge for Peace and Understanding’.

Sevim Arbana, born 1951, was one of the first activists of the democratic movement in Albania and the founder of the organization Useful to Albanian Women (UAW). She is also a human rights activist who supports groups in need and was a founder of the peace movement, Woman Bridge for Peace and Understanding, in the Balkans.

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

Linked to our presentations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commission for Human Rights.

She says: « To love and protect people. To follow the dictates of my conscience and always fight for the rights of people, their honor and dignity. »

She works for the Ukrainian Parliament Commission for Human Rights; the Hope – Center for the Protection of Children’s and Women’s Rights; and the World Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers.

Nina Karpachova – Ukraine

Nina Karpachova was elected Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in 1998. Her top priorities include safeguarding individual’s rights to a fair trial, freedom of speech, the rights of orphans, the disabled, people affected by HIV/AIDS, victims of Chernobyl, and persons deprived of liberty. She advocates for the rights of migrant workers and has taken action against trafficking in women. From early on, she boldly denounced torture and defended the right to peaceful assembly. She has been instrumental in bringing Ukraine to sign international rights conventions.

Nina Karpachova (48) was born into a family of lawyers. Her childhood and youth were spent in Kerch in Crimea. This ancient Greek colony, known as Panticapaeum, was once the capital of the Bosporus Kingdom. Here she attended secondary school, simultaneously studying piano at music school and gymnastics at a sports academy.

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

Linked with our presentation The Iraqi Women’s League (IWL).

She says: « The rationale of my life is best expressed in what Goethe once said: ‘All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green’. »

Susan Ahmed-Böhme – Iraq

She works for the Iraqi Women’s League (IWL).

Born in 1953 in Baghdad, Susan Ahmed is a biologist and a member of the Iraqi Women’s League. Due to her covert work on issues of ethnic and religious diversity and her opposition to the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, Susan and her family faced severe persecution in Iraq. Her father was tortured and her sister was murdered.

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

Linked with our presentation of The Mae Tao Clinic.

She says: « I dream of going back home to Burma one day. But until then, we need to give hope. »

Cynthia Maung – Burma

She works for the Mae Tao Clinic.

Cynthia Maung (born 1959), a trained doctor from Karen State in Burma, fled to Thailand in 1988 and set up the Mae Tao Clinic. Every year the clinic saves the lives of thousands of refugees and migrant workers. It supports remote field clinics in Burma serving internally displaced persons and sponsors women’s organizations and health education. It trains medics to provide health care throughout the Thai-Burma border. Dr. Maung has set up an orphanage, and supports schools and boarding houses.

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