Gerald Nagler – Sweden

Gerald Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human: « The Human Rights Movement and the Helsinki Process, » 4/30/02. He is born 1929 in Vienna, Austria. Hs parents came with him to Sweden when he was two years old. He has grown up in Stockholm.

Gerald Nagler – Sweden

On the occasion of observance of the fifth anniversary of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 11 February 2000, the president of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Gerald Nagler was presented with a special award.

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Asma Jahangir – Pakistan

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

Asma Jahangir – Pakistan

For a quarter-century, acclaimed human rights lawyer and UN special rapporteur Asma Jahangir (born 1952), has been a thorn in the side of the powerful and ruthless in Pakistan. During this time, this human rights’ lawyer, working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRC), has defended the oppressed in Pakistani society – among them political prisoners, bonded laborers, women, and minorities sentenced under unjust laws.

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Raimunda Gomes da Silva – Brazil

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

Raimunda Gomes da Silva – Brazil

She says: “The power of capitalism makes a small number of people accumulate wealth, while many others become poorer every day. How can a mother live in peace if she can not feed her little children?” She works for the ‘Conselho Nacional dos Seringueiros (CNS)’.

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Radha Bhatt – India

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

Radha Bhatt – India

Radha Bhatt’s work in the picturesque but poor Himalayan foothills is a canny combination of progressive ideas and Gandhian ideals-and they have functioned wonderfully. She is working for the Kasturba National Memorial Trust (KNMT), which received NGO Consultative Status (II) by the UN.

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Ahmed Rashid – Pakistan

Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore. He is author of three books including the best sellers ‘Taliban’’ and most recently ‘’Jihad.’’ He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia for the past 25 years and writes for the ‘Far Eastern Economic Review,’ the ‘Daily Telegraph,’and ‘’The Wall Street Journal.

Ahmed Rashid

Interview on BBC World, August 4th, 2005 – A complex three way game between the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan is undermining the war on terror and hindering nation and democracy building, writes journalist Ahmed Rashid in his latest guest column for the BBC News website.

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Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan

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

Fatimakhon Ahmedova – Tajikistan

She says: « I do not want to belong to those who become disappointed in ideas of democracy, humanity and justice. I believe that sometimes the saddest event in one’s life can stimulate one to improve oneself. » She is working with the Center for Democratic Transformations (CDT).

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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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1000 women for peace

The NOMINATIONS CRITERIAs for peacewomen.org:

The main criteria that each woman of peace must fulfill can be summarized as follows:

— She employs and promotes active, non-violent responses to conflict situations, structural injustices and inequalities
— Her work is sustainable and long-term
She leads by example, acting with moral courage and responsibility
— Her work is exemplary and worthy of emulation
— She works for the cause of peace and not for political or personal gain
— Her work is transparent and based on tolerance
— She includes and engages with people of different backgrounds and across the conflict divide

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Serge Halimi – France

SOME of the most down-at-heel homes in the remotest villages of West Virginia sport posters for George Bush and Dick Cheney, although their occupants surely do not expect to gain from any further reductions in capital gains tax.

Serge Halimi – France

We see a lot of « We support our troops » signs. We meet a brother and sister in the state capital, Charleston, who will vote Republican for « religious reasons »; yet the brother is a schoolteacher and he has no health insurance.

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