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Linked with UNICEF – Global Movement for Children.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “We cannot be spectators of the events. We cannot wait for other people to do what we should do ourselves”.
Sandra Jiménez Loza – Mexico
And she says: “I saw my life in another way because, in spite of my limitations, in spite of my disability, I have everything.
Linked with Droits de l’Homme ou droit du plus fort?, and with Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science?.
Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense [= Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (ISBN 0312204078; French: Impostures Intellectuelles, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, ISBN 1861976313)] with Alan Sokal. Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes. (See more on wikipedia).
Jean Bricmont – Belgium
His books on Amazon. And on ‘complete review‘.
Son livre ‘Impérialisme Humanitaire’, droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort?, préface de François Houtart: Toute idée, aussi légitime soit-elle, court le risque d’être transformée en idéologie et d’être utilisée par les pouvoirs en place à des fins qui leur sont propres.
Linked with Peace x Peace.org, and with Search for Common Ground Burundi.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “They say: ‘Stop! We are just like any other children and we did not choose to live on the streets”.
Christine Ntahe – Burundi
She works for ‘Search for Common Ground Burundi‘.
Christine Ntahe was born in 1949 and is regarded as « mother” of street children in Burundi. For 30 years she worked as a journalist and manager with Radio Télévision Nationale de Burundi (RTNB).
Linked with Interview with Duong Thu Huong – Viet Nam.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005
Duong Thu Huong est la romancière du Vietnam la plus connue au monde. Depuis qu’elle a été emprisonnée sept mois en 1991, et qu’elle doit sa libération à l’intervention de personnalités occidentales, elle n’est plus éditée dans son pays. Elle vit à Hanoi. Elle n’est pas, au sens strict du terme, en résidence surveillée, précise son traducteur, Phan Huy Duong : «Elle se déplace comme elle veut, mais elle a deux policiers en permanence devant chez elle, jour et nuit, qui interpellent ses visiteurs, rapportent ses conversations.
Duong Thu Huong – Viet Nam
See: 14 books of her on Amazon.
Elle ne peut pas avoir de vie privée.» Les romans de Duong Thu Huong ne paraissent plus au Vietnam mais à l’étranger. Rencontre avec une dissidente, entre engagement et littérature.
Linked with US or UN?, and with Who rules the World? Project Imperialism.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « Women are half of the world’s population, do two-thirds of the work, get one-tenth of the income, and are the owners of one per cent of the property. »
Krishna Ahooja-Patel – India
She works for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
And she says: “We are going to eliminate racism within the organization and train women in conflict areas to be leaders and part of the peace process.” (Read all on smu.ca).
And also: « We are not recognising the multi-identity of a human being …
He is a Spanish poet and novelist. He is openly gay and has rejected his home country of Spain, which he sees as over decadent and sexually repressed (see more on wikipedia).
He says: « When the Spanish dictator Franco died 25 years ago, Juan Goytisolo felt liberated. « I discovered that my real, tyrannical father was Franco, » he says, « my mother was killed by his bombs, my family destroyed, and he forced me to become an exile. Everything I created was a result of the civil war », (see id).
Juan Goytisolo was Born on 5 January, 1931, he attended University of Barcelona and University of Madrid, has largely lived in exile since the late 1950s, mainly in Paris and Marrakesh and was visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego (1969), Boston University (1970), McGill (1972), NYU (1973-4). (See on complete review.com).
Juan Goytisolo was married but took male lovers, and fled bourgeois Barcelona for the Islamic world, which inspired him to launch attacks on the intolerance of his native land. Maya Jaggi (in the Guardian) on Spain’s greatest living writer – and its harshest critic.
Juan Goytisolo – Spain
See a spanish BIBLIOGRAFÍA DE JUAN GOYTISOLO onthe Centro Nacional de Informacion y Comunicacion Educativa (not dated).
See an english review of his books on Complete review.com (not dated).
A long Interview with Juan Goytisolo, by Julio Ortega, trans. Joseph Schraibman (Excerpt): … Julio Ortega: I am very interested in another aspect of Count Julian; its close relationship with the new Hispano-American narrative. l would say that Count Julian is the most Spanish novel that you have written, but it is also the most Hispano-American one, because of its diversity of form and of expression which allows you even to gloss Hispano-American oral language in your novel. What importance has the Hispano-American prose fiction had for you?
Linked with Haiti’s Election – Looking Back.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « The overwhelming majority of women need to fight with determination against social inequalities.”
And: “I firmly believe that the overwhelming majority of women need to fight with determination against social inequalities,” states Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste in her autobiographical notes. She is a nanny, social worker and activist for human rights in Haiti. “
Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste – Haiti
She works for the Clinic for Women of Kafou Fèy.
Read the 154 pages pdf-text ‘Haiti held hostage … ‘.
Read also the 368 pages pdf-text ‘E.W. Vedrine’s Complete Works, including works on Haitian Creole (1992-2005), DIPLOMAS AND THE HAITIAN DIPLOMÉS’ MISSION, (by Emmanuel W. Vedrine), Dec. 13, 2004′.
Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste is a nanny, social worker and activist for human rights from Haiti. In 1991, during the state military coup that attempted to re-establish Jean-Claude Duvalier as life president (a post inherited from his father), soldiers burst into the hospital where she worked, shooting. Rose-Anne risked her life saving the wounded.
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Linked with Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, and with Texts about Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights, and with Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, and with Indigenous Webs for Informations, and with Official development aid grows, but not enough to meet goals.
He says: » … this year’s ECOSOC meeting was significant for the Ministerial Declaration on Employment and Decent Work that emerged from the Council’s high-level meeting held earlier this month. The declaration identified a number of concrete steps to further implementation of the 2005 World Summit commitment to make the goal of full and proactive employment and decent work a central objective of national and international policies ». (See on Accra-mail.com, July 31, 2006).
JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO – Colombia
His statement at the IMF, Sept. 24, 2005.
Listen this video on his statement, Sept. 15, 2004.
Secretary-General appoints José Antnio Ocampo of Colombia new Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, succeeding Nitin Desai, effective 1 September 2003. Mr. Ocampo has been serving since 1 January 1998 as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Earlier in his career, Mr. Ocampo held a number of posts in the Government of Colombia, including those of Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department and Minister of Agriculture. His academic pursuits have included service as Director of the Foundation for Higher Education and Development, Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Yale and Oxford Universities.
Linked with the Deutsch-tschechisches Forum der Frauen, and with Knihovna – Liberec in Czech Republic.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « Each one of us – like our destiny – is unique, but not exceptional. »
Vera Vohlidalova – Czech Republic
She works for the Research Library of Liberec by Building of Peace and Reconciliation; für das Deutsch-Tschechisches Forum der Frauen = Frauen-Netzwerk für den Frieden, and for the Reconciliation Project for the Euroregion Neisse-Nysa-Nisa.
Knowledge, human rights and reconciliation are the decisive forces in the life of Vera Vohlidalova is “a product of Europe,” a witness to our recent warring and turbulent history who has decided to speak out.
Her German mother and Czech father were both active antifascists. After the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, her parents emigrated to London, where Vera was born in 1942. Soon after the war was over the family returned to Liberec (formerly Reichenberg) and experienced the expelling of the Germans.
Vera became a librarian. She was 26 years old when, during the Prague Spring of 1968, the desire for change was abruptly destroyed by Warsaw Pact tanks. Vera was among the many who protested. Pregnancy and motherhood saved her from dismissal and prison. Under strict political control and for low wages, she was able to continue working in the information office of the regional hospital of Liberec. Vera brought the existing documentation up to date and smuggled in forbidden foreign literature.
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She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « All of us in our own countries, cities, villages, and families can improve the lives around us. My mission is to communicate this so women will join forces for prosperity and peace in the world. »
A 132 page pdf, Dec. 05: UNECE.org – Country Gender Assessment, Uzbekistan.
Adiba Kamiljonovna Akhmedjanova – Uzbekistan
She works for Sodruzhestvo, and for the Association of Women Farmers .
Adiba Akhmedjanova (born 1955) initiated the Women’s Club of International Friendship called Sodruzhestvo (Cooperation) to bring women from different national origins together and promote mutual understanding. Uzbek women from villages can meet people from other countries and become familiar with the culture of different nations. She also founded an association for leadership development for girls and the Association of Women Farmers in the Tashkent Province. She provides women with assistance in the fields of human rights, legal advice and help in setting up small business enterprises.
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