Catégorie : 1000 women Peace Nobel 2005

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

Linked to our presentation The Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center CWCC.

Linked also to our presentation The Fight against Trafficking in Women and Children.

She says: “The suffering of women encourages us to work, to do more to help. We are human beings. We cannot ignore their situation.”

Oung Chanthol – Cambodia

She works for the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC).

Oung Chanthol (born 1967), was cofounder of the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC) in 1997 and is its current executive director. The CWCC has helped over 55,600 female victims of violence, rape and trafficking in its drop-in centers and shelters. It provides legal counseling, victims’ reintegration, community awareness programs, and raises general public awareness through a media campaign. The center receives financial support from the German government and international NGOs. The Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center looks similar to other shop houses in the area. The steep stairs lead to a small office where its founder does dangerous work saving the lives of thousands of Cambodian women. The face of a woman stares out of the posters on the wall. One poster reads: “Domestic violence is condemned by every culture.” The other pronounces: “A life free of violence: it’s our right.”
The woman working in this room has dedicated her life to eradicating violence against women through the center that she co-founded and currently directs. Indeed, when the center was established in 1997, Oung Chanthol didn’t know that she would have such an arduous task ahead.

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

Linked with the Institute of war and peace … , with ANESMI, with Reporters without borders, and also with Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan, and with Central Asia, Kazakhstan.

She says: « There should be peace on earth without war, hunger, and cataclysms. Natural calamities are beyond our control, but the others we can prevent! If the women of the world stand up to protect humankind, if they take an active social stand and do not let dictators and rogues rule, there would not be wars, genocide, crimes against humanity; there would not be hungry and poor people. There is no place for fanatics and terrorists in a thriving world. What we have in real life is quite the opposite. Cruelty, thirst for power and greed rule the world. Egotism and violation of moral principles by some state leaders bring their people to poverty, aggression and envy. They breed in their people the desire to hate and kill others. This is against human nature. » (Read here about her).

Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan

She is working for 3 associations:

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Linked with our presentation of Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation – the Russian Perspective.

Linked also with Uni Cambridge, Event 24-02-2006.

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

She says: “Never be humiliated. Do not fear to have your own opinion and to make it public, even if your opinion does not coincide with the opinion of the authorities.”

Alla Yaroshinskaya – Russian Federation

She works for Soyuz Zhurnalistov Rossii (SZR), and for Regionalny grazhdansky front (RGF).

Alla Yaroshinskaya was born in 1953, in Zhitomir region of the Ukraine. She was graduating in from Kiev University and worked for 13 years as a correspondent of the local newspaper. At university she had been a political dissident. During her work she consistently tried to expose party corruption and suffered administrative penalties. At the end of 1986 she began to feel uneasy about the supposed evacuation of areas which had been contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl accident in April that year, and she began to investigate.

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

She says: “I believe in the humanization of justice. I really love what I do.” And for her, a true judicial reform has to begin with the judges’ attitude: “More important than giving a verdict is seeking a negotiation between the parties involved. More important than analyzing the paper work of the case, is listening to the people.”

Sueli Pereira Pini – Brazil

She is a judge of law and coordinator of the Juizado Especial Central Cível e Criminal da Comarca de Macapá (Special Civil Court of Macapá), the capital of Amapá. Her philosophy is very clear: “Justice is there to be made”. But how can this service be rendered in settlements spread throughout the forest? Well, if the people cannot go to justice, justice will come to them.

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

She says: “I’m a Party member, a member of society and I act on what is in my mind. If people share my vision, they too will need to act on it; but if they think it is someone else’s problem, nobody will act.”

Wei Cheng – China

Jinyita Village, Daning County, Shanxi Province, China

Cheng Wei (54) left her comfortable job and home and moved to a remote village in Shanxi Province, China. She put all her efforts – and her own funds – into developing the economy and culture of the area, focusing on road building, electricity and water supplies, schools, and the purchase of trees and seeds.

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Linked with our presentation of Mohammad Yunus – Bangladesh.

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

Sufia Khatun – Bangladesh

Sufia Khatun says to Kafil Ahmed, an Oxfam project officer in Bangladesh: “My husband is a labourer, and travels around to find work. My children go to the MMS school. MMS gave me a loan, and I bought two cows. I sell the milk they produce to support my family.”

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

She says: “I want to leave future generations the only valid inheritance: a free country and social justice.”

Domitila Barrios de Chungara – Bolivien

She works for the Mobile School Project

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

Linked to our presentation of Network of Wayuu Indigenous Women on January 26., 2006.

She says: “We women, as givers of life, are also responsible for taking care of that life and, for that reason, we need strong organizations of indigenous women.”

Noelí Pocaterra – Venezuela

She works for the Network of Wayuu Indigenous Women, and for the Permanent Commission for Indigenous People in the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

She is an indigenous woman, a Wayuu woman. She is militant, socially and politically, and has committed herself, for over 40 years, to the defense of the human, political and territorial rights of her country’s native people.

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Linked to our presentation of Moving politics … to the people on January 25, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation of THE KENYA DEBT RELIEF NETWORK on January 25, 2006.

She worked actively for preparing the World Social Forum WSF 2006 in Mali.

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

Wahu Kaara – Kenya

She says: « African women are not dying for Africa anymore, they want to live for Africa. »

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

She says: « Someone can only be strong for the future when they remember the suffering of the past … this gives them roots. »

Hero Ahmad – Iraq

She works for the Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC); the Khak Press and Media Centre (KPMC);
and the Ibrahim Ahmad Foundation (IAF).

Linked to our presentation of Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) on January 19, 2006.

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