Mois : août 2006

Yuki Ando – Japan

Linked with International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect ISPCAN.

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

She says: «  »Every child has the right to be secure, confident, and free. »

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Yuki Ando – Japan

She works for the Child Abuse Prevention CAP, and for the Peace Violence Prevention Training Center.

Yuki Ando has combined her artistic talent, compassion for children, and teaching and organizational skills to protect Japan’s most vulnerable citizens: its children. She learned about a successful child abuse prevention program called CAP (Child Abuse Prevention), which uses role-play and other activities to teach children of all ages about their fundamental right to live free from emotional and physical violence. She adapted the program for Japan in 1994 and today 160 CAP groups are active throughout the country.

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1931 – 2006, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, MAORI Queen – New Zealand

Breaking News: Maori Queen Dies At Turangawaiwai, Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 7:40 pm. (See the whole article on Scoop).

WELLINGTON (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered today to bury the Maori queen, one of the country’s most respected indigenous leaders, and celebrate the inauguration of her son as her successor. The tribal home of Dame Te Atairangikaahu, who died of kidney failure last Tuesday, aged 75, was overflowing as Maori of many tribes, New Zealand and Pacific political leaders, and many others of different races attended her funeral ceremony. (Read all on Canada.com).
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1931 – 2006, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, MAORI Queen – New Zealand

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Yuzhen Chang – China

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

She says: “My fortune has come from society, thus it should go back to society. I will pay back to my motherland and my compatriots with all my heart.”

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Yuzhen Chang – China

She works for Changji Store in Tangshan

From her modest beginnings selling soybeans Chang Yuzhen went on to become a successful businesswoman. She now puts the bulk of her wealth into helping others. Coming from a family of soldiers, she knows well their hardships and has set up a veterans’ home, a veterans’ welfare settlement, a soldiers’ resort village and an orphans’ village in the old Liberated Areas. She also set up an exhibition hall for patriotism education, an ecological garden for the protection of the environment, and has donated money to disaster-affected areas. (Read all on 1000peacewomen). Sorry, I can not reach other information in english about Yuzhen Chang, being certified to mean the right person.
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Jason Leopold – USA

Added July 13, 2008: Linked also with GoDaddy.com, which is also mentionned on wikipedia, and on Hosting Central. See also: AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Communications, UPDATE: 09.20.07 (this is obviously an elite’s struggle against an investigative journalist). See also his article State Department’s Iran Democracy Fund Shrouded In Secrecy, July 11, 2008.

Linked with TruthOut.org.

Read his today’s article: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

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Jason Leopold – USA

He says: « … the place to find a scoop is by reading every bit of information contained within documents. For example, if you’re a business reporter assigned to a company or industry you should pore over the company’s past and present SEC filings.

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Patricia Verdugo Aguirre – Chile

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

She says: « “We should preserve in adults the confident and joyful attitude of small children.”

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Patricia Verdugo Aguirre – Chile

Patricia Verdugo is a Chilean journalist and writer. She has oriented her work towards human rights, covering the period before, during and after the military government (1973-1990), and to the promotion of democracy. Since 1979, she has written more than ten books concerning what happened during the dictatorship in Chile. She has received a number of awards: in 1997, in Chile, the National Journalism Prize; in 1993, in the United States, the María Moors Cabot Prize; and in 2000, the Latin American Studies Association recognized her work.

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Torild Skard – Norway

Linked with Frontal Attack on the UN, and with Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI.

Ms. Torild Skard is currently a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo where she focuses on gender and development issues.

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Torild Skard – Norway

She says: « It is part of the picture that the great majority of politicians and providers of socialservices all over the world are men. There are relatively few wom-en and they are usually in subordinate positions. Clients and citi-zens, on the other hand, include 50 per cent or more women. Womenappear to be particularly numerous among the poor. The spotlightin the report on Kerala and Urdah Pradesh (pp. 44–45) has the be-ginnings of a gender analysis that is very interesting, but this is aboutall.

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Elizabeth Odio Benito – Costa Rica

Linked with Ensuring Peace through Justice, and with the International Criminal Court in The Hague ICC.

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

She says: “I am an optimist. I am completely convinced that some day the earth will be a better place to live in”.

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Elizabeth Odio Benito – Costa Rica

She works for the International Criminal Court in The Hague ICC.

See her bio on wikipedia.

She said also: « If I am nominated by my country and subsequently elected as a judge on the ICC, I would devote particular attention to the progressive interpretation of the norms in the Statute, above all, to those concerning sexual crimes against women.

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Hina Jilani – Pakistan

Linked with Alarmed at rising violence in Sri Lanka, and with AGHS Legal Aid Cell.

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

Lawyer Hina Jilani, who began practicing law during the martial law regime in 1979, has set standards for human rights protection, and for her own profession.

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Hina Jilani – Pakistan

She works for AGHS Legal Aid Cell.

She says: « I was doing a lot of work with women in prisons. After this particular law came in, the involvement of women in the criminal justice system was much greater than ever before. The number of women in prison had swelled.

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Arvind Kejriwal – India

Linked with Kabir.org – India, and with PARIVARTAN, Fighting Corruption – India.

He says: « I would love to give it all up, if only someone were to assure me of a means of living because Parivartan is not a source for making money. I have to think of something before I bow out of service but I know for sure that I cannot juggle like this forever ». And: « I firmly believe that there is a way out without having to bribe ». And: « I refuse to turn it into an NGO because I want to be accountable to the people, not to the donors ». And « We changed the modus operandi because we began to see ourselves as touts who do not charge. Now we help people do the paperwork and seek their rights ». And: « We helped Ashok Gupta get a new electricity connection that was refused to him for the last three years because he refused to pay a bribe of Rs 5000. Armed with the Right to Information Act, we got the connection in 10 days ». And: « We are living in a society of extortionists where the common man is not allowed to live honestly ». (See all on this site of The Tribune).

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Arvind Kejriwal – India

RTE Activist, Kejriwal wins Magsaysay Award. Powai, 13 August 06 – Arvind Kejriwal, head of the NGO Parivartan, has been chosen for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership.

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Othmar Keel – Switzerland

Linked with Tiere sind weder Menschen noch Waren, and with Departement of Biblical Studies, Univ. Fribourg (Switzerland).

He says « I wrote someplace that the Bible doesn’t really have that much about sex, despite the obsession of various Christians with trying to stop people from having it. However, there is one book that seems to be about nothing else but, and that is this one. In the history of the church, the erotic elements of this book have been interpreted as being praise of Solomon’s favorite wife, about God’s love of Israel, the relation of a student to wisdom itself, and so on. Over the last 200 years or so, the natural understanding of the text has regained ascendancy ». (see Othmar Keel, The Song of Songs, A Continental Commentary, Fortress Press, 1994, 290 pages).

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Othmar Keel – Switzerland

Keel’s contribution is an extensive analysis of love poetry in related cultures as well as an examination of many drawings, carvings, and so on.

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