Monowara Begum Monu – Bangladesh

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

She says: If there is to be a positive change in society, someone has to sacrifice. » She works with the Mohila Muktijodha Samiti. Monowara Begum (born 1953), is one of the 1971 Bangladesh’ war of liberation’s best-known freedom-fighters. Today she battles on various beachheads and is active in advocacy work as well. The mutilated postwar economy saw Monowara get down to building the Bangladesh of a collective dream.

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She has worked for more than three decades, both within the government system and through the Mohila Muktijodha Samiti (women freedom-fighters’ cooperative), to make the government system accountable to the greater good (Peacewomen.org).

In Holyday you can read: Women activists slate softening of the Women Repression Act, by Staff Correspondent: Leaders of the women community on July 14 expressed strong resentment over certain amendments to the Women Repression (Amendment) Act, 2000, which were adopted by Parliament the day before.

The resentments surfaced at a meeting of the leaders of Dhaka-based women activists, which was held at the office of the Anannya, a Bangla fortnightly edited by Tasmima Hossain. Deputy Secretary Salma Binte Kadir of the Law Ministry clarified some legal queries made by the women?s leaders.

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Marguerite Barankitse – Burundi

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

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Marguerite Barankitse – Burundi

She says: “Who knows, even criminals can achieve wonderful things, if they are given a chance.” She created the Maison Shalom, which has become an island of peace in a strife-torn country. During the genocide of 1993/94, Marguerite « Maggy » Barankitse saved thousands of children from death or abduction at great personal risk.

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