- 2006-07-01: Irene Morada Santiago – Philippines;
- 2006-07-02: Margarita Assenova – USA & Bulgaria;
- 2006-07-03: Blanca Campoverde – Ecuador;
- 2006-07-04: Anica Mikus Kos – Slovenia;
- 2006-07-05: Sir Bill Morris – England;
- 2006-07-06: Aïssata Kane – Mauritania;
- 2006-07-07: Howard Zinn – USA;
- 2006-07-08: Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez – Guatemala;
- 2006-07-09: Jessica García – Honduras;
- 2006-07-10: Amsatou Sow Sidibé – Senegal;
- 2006-07-11: Oronto Douglas – Nigeria;
- 2006-07-12: Paddy Walker – Cook Islands;
- 2006-07-13: Eva Hoffmann – USA-Canada-Poland;
- 2006-07-14: Stella Cornelius – Australia.;
- 2006-07-15: Chahla Beski-Chafiq – Iran & France;
- 2006-07-16: Stanislavka Zajovic – Serbia and (now independent) Montenegro;
- 2006-07-17: Anonyma – International;
- 2006-07-18: Katrin Rohde – Burkina Faso & Germany;
- 2006-07-19: Salima Hashmi – Pakistan;
- 2006-07-20: Antonio Jacanamijoy – Colombia;
- 2006-07-21: Maria Teresa Leal – Brazil;
- 2006-07-22: Immanuel Wallerstein – USA;
- 2006-07-23: Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark;
- 2006-07-24: Maria Manuela Perreira – Timor East;
- 2006-07-25: Luisa Morgantini – Italy;
- 2006-07-26: Michel Chossudovsky – Canada;
- 2006-07-27: Swanee Hunt – USA;
- 2006-07-28: Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi – Ghana;
- 2006-07-29: Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir;
- 2006-07-30: Valentyna Dovzhenko – Ukraine;
- 2006-07-31: Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand;
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Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand
Linked with our presentations of the Klong Dan Local Conservation Group – Thailand, and of The Assembly of the Poor AOP – Thailand.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « We must fight unwaveringly, audaciously, sincerely, with hope of nothing in return, and continue to take a clear and firm stand. There is nothing to be afraid of. »
Dawan Chantarahassadee – Thailand
She works for the Klong Dan Local Conservation Group
Dawan Chantarahassadee graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Ramkamhaeng University, and is hailed as « an academic among commoners of Klong Dan ». After working in a private firm, she returned to her birthplace and with her husband opened a restaurant in the community where she traces her ancestry back three generations. The turning point in her life was in 1999 when she became involved in the campaign against the corrupt Klong Dan Waste Water Treatment Project in Samut Prakarn (Klong Dan), East of Bangkok. (Read this on 1000peacewomen).
Ecxerpt: … She has peacefully struggled for the rights of women to be ordained as female monks. She was ordained as a female monk in Sri Lanka two years ago … (Read on Angkor.com).
Read ‘People’s declaration to the ADB‘.
Read ‘articles on Environmental Activism & Conservation‘.
Read ‘too hot to handle‘.
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Valentyna Dovzhenko – Ukraine
Linked with our presentation of The Eurasia Foundation, of the The Eurasia Foundation, and of the POLITICAL SITUATION IN UKRAINE., also of Magic Reasons for Prosperity.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « Never bill for your personal time, and strive to accomplish all you started. »
Valentyna Dovzhenko – Ukraine
She works for the All-Ukrainian Charity Foundation of Hope and Good Will, and for the Union of Ukrainian Women, and also for Women for the Future.
Valentyna Dovzhenko (57) is actively engaged in public service work at national and international levels. Through governmental and non-governmental organizations, she focuses on developing strategies to resolve issues related to protecting the rights of women and children (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), high risk groups (e.g. HIV/AIDS), poverty alleviation, violence and gender discrimination (UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), and nonviolent conflict resolution.Valentyna Dovzhenko, 57 years old, was born in the town of Pyatykhatky, in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine. She is married and has an adult son.
Valentyna is actively engaged in public service work at both national and international levels. Through her positions on governmental and non-governmental committees and organizations, she focuses her energy on developing and effectively implementing national and United Nations (NGO) strategies to resolve issues related to numerous causes: protecting the rights of women and children (implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), and persons belonging to high risk groups (e.g. HIV/AIDS, substance abuse); poverty alleviation (humanitarian relief and social support of large and low-income families); fighting violence and gender discrimination (implementation of UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women); and assisting in nonviolent conflict resolution.
Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir
Linked with the articles Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, Jammu/India, and with ‘Of Gods, Men and Militants‘, and also with Reconciliation. Read also The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict.
Linked also with his 3 blogs: Blog of the Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, the Socio-political & Cultural Blog, his Personal & Literary Blog.
Kundan Lal Chowdhury MD – India / Kashmir.
He is Advisor of our Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum AEHRF.
He is a lifelong medical professional, practicing medicine since 1963, involved in teaching, research and humanitarian activities.
• Joined Medical College, Srinagar, Kashmir (India) as a faculty member and rose to the level of Professor of Medicine. Published papers in several national and international journals.
• Career as a professor of medicine cut short when forced to leave his native land of Kashmir in the wake of terrorism in 1990. The ethnic population of Kashmiri Pandits numbering more than three and a half thousand along with a few thousand of Muslims and Sikhs, was driven out from the valley of Kashmir.
• Deeply affected by the alarming rise in the incidence of various diseases and the appearance of new medical syndromes in the displaced population, founded the Displaced Doctors Association, and set up the charitable Shriya Bhat Mission Hospital for community health and welfare of the displaced population.
• Presently Medical Director, Shirya Bhatt Mission Hospital, Durga Nagar Jammu, India 180013.
• Widely known for pioneering work on The health trauma of displaced Kashmiris . Credited with drawing worldwide attention to this tragedy.
• Identified syndromes like ‘Stress Diabetes’ and ‘Psychological Syndromes in Exiled Populations’ and highlighted the adverse effects of environmental and lifestyle changes on a displaced population.
• Conducted extensive surveys in the Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora and wrote about premature menopause, reduced birthrates and rising death rates in the exiles leading to population depletion.
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• Has written extensively on various subjects – medical and scientific, social and cultural.
• Has a passion for poetry and his poems have appeared in numerous journals.
• Has to his credit two volume of published verse:
1- “Of Gods, Men and Militants” Minerva Press (India) Private. Ltd. 2000.
2- “A Thousand-Petalled garland and other poems”, Writers workshop, Calcutta, India, 2003.
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Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi MD – Ghana
Linked with our presentation of Population Council’s International.
Ayorinde Ajayi is the regional director for sub-Saharan Africa. He manages seven Population Council offices (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, and Zambia) and oversees the organization’s research portfolio in the sub-Saharan region. Ajayi’s areas of expertise are capacity building and developing culturally appropriate service-delivery models for Africa.
Ayorinde, or Ayo Ajayi MD – Ghana
Prior to joining the Council in 1990, he was the regional vice president for the Pathfinder Fund. He has also taught and worked at Boston University and served as a government health officer in Nigeria. Ajayi has been a consultant to the US Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization, and several United Nations agencies.
Ajayi’s professional activities include serving as a board member for the Africa Health and Population Research Center, which he helped found, and as chairman of the advisory committee on access for the International Partnership for Microbicides. He completed his medical training at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and received a masters in public health from Boston University. (Read more on this page of the Population Council).
In ‘members of the Committee of Microbicides’, see his first name written in this way: Ayo Ajayi, Population Council, Ghana.
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Swanee Hunt – USA
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word ‘vital’ means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens. »
Swanee Hunt – USA
She works for the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard University.
See her personal website.
Read the article on Afghanistans women as leaders.
Swanee Hunt is helping to shape policies that affect women worldwide. As Ambassador in Vienna, she launched the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative and Conference, which united 320 international women leaders in business, law, and politics. The conference inspired Vital Voices of Northern Ireland, the Americas, the Baltics, Nordics, Russia, and others. Today, Vital Voices is a global partnership supporting women’s progress in building democracies, strong economies, and peace. Swanee Hunt has used her influence to connect with policymakers and dignitaries around the world. Continuer la lecture de « Swanee Hunt – USA »
Michel Chossudovsky – Canada
Linked with our presentation of The use of 9/11 … , and of The Center for Research on Globalisation. Also with ‘Is The U.S. Planning A Horrific Global Nuclear War? with North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic, and with 9/11 and the American Inquisition.
Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa.
He says: « The evidence confirms that al-Qaeda did not play a role in 9/11. But in fact, that in itself is a red herring, because al-Qaeda is a U.S.-sponsored intelligence asset ». And: « What I’ve done in my writings is to show that the official narrative or explanation regarding 9/11 can be refuted, namely that the official narrative is a lie ».
Michel Chossudovsky – Canada
Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDEP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research as an adviser.
Luisa Morgantini – Italy
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below. »
Luisa Morgantini – Italy
She works for the European Parliament; and the Confederal Group of the European United Left, and also for the Women in Black.
Homepage of Luisa Morgantini (in italian).
Luisa Morgantini is a member of the European Parliament.
The leftist politician from northern Italy supports people in areas of tension. She makes every effort to see that conflicts are resolved through peaceful dialogue.
As a trade unionist she started more than 20 years ago to establish solidarity projects in South American and African countries. Since 1982, she has been working closely with Israeli and Palestinian peace initiatives, above all Women in Black, and has risked her life in peace missions. In Palestinian areas she demonstrated with the people against the Israeli occupation.
Maria Manuela Perreira – Timor East
Linked with our presentation of Fokupers – Timor East.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
Maria Manuela works tirelessly for the social, economic, and political rights of women against a backdrop of patriarchy, immense poverty and national reconstruction in Timor-Leste.
Maria Manuela Perreira – Timor East
See the list of all East Timorese Grassroots Organisations & Networks (based within East Timor), Organisasi dan jaringan populer.
At age 18, Maria Manuela Perreira decided not to flee with her family to Portugal because she felt her life and commitment lay in East Timor. Since then, she has unwaveringly committed to the principles of equity, justice, and peace in a country that has experienced decades of oppression, conflict, and destruction. In a new era of independence and reconstruction, Maria Manuela shows outstanding vision and compassion as the director of a women’s organization that works tirelessly for the social, economic, and political rights of women against a backdrop of patriarchy and immense poverty.The second eldest of 11 children, Maria Manuela decided not to go with her family to Portugal in 1986 when they were fleeing Indonesian-occupied East Timor. She felt her life and responsibility lay in her home island. She returned there after studies in Yogyakarta and worked as a trainer at Bia Hula NGO, training communities in water and sanitation. She enjoyed the principles of community consultation and providing communities with the means to help themselves.
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Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark
Linked with our presentations of The Copenhagen Consensus Center, and of the
Copenhagen Consensus 2006.
He says: « Environmentalists said Kyoto would be virtually cost-free, most countries are starting to realise that it will be very costly ».
And he says also: « Two hundred years ago, the left was an incredibly rational movement. It believed in encyclopedias, in hard facts, and in the idea that mastery of these basics would help make a better society. Since then, the world’s do-gooders have succumbed to romanticism, they’ve become more dreamy. »
Bjorn Lomborg – Denmark
TWO years ago, a Danish environmentalist called Bjorn Lomborg had an idea. We all want to make the world a better place but, given finite resources, we should look for the most cost-effective ways of doing so. He persuaded a bunch of economists, including three Nobel laureates, to draw up a list of priorities. They found that efforts to fight malnutrition and disease would save many lives at modest expense, whereas fighting global warming would cost a colossal amount and yield distant and uncertain rewards. That conclusion upset a lot of environmentalists. This week, another man who upsets a lot of people embraced it. John Bolton, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, said that Mr Lomborg’s “Copenhagen Consensus” (see articles) provided a useful way for the world body to get its priorities straight. Too often at the UN, said Mr Bolton, “everything is a priority”. The secretary-general is charged with carrying out 9,000 mandates, he said, and when you have 9,000 priorities you have none. So, over the weekend, Mr Bolton sat down with UN diplomats from seven other countries, including China and India but no Europeans, to rank 40 ways of tackling ten global crises.