Mois : septembre 2006

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

She says: “The spirit and determination of the people we are working with really keep us going. Their wisdom in living truly gives us a good lesson in life”.

Henny Yudea – Indonesia

She works for Health Study Institute (Lessan).

Henny Yudea (born 1968) is a health rights activist. Her main interest is developing traditional medicines, which she believes is an answer to the health problems of poor people. Herbal medicines can be made from ingredients which are mostly cheap and easily accessible to many. She works with hundreds of farmers, including women, encouraging them to plant herbs, and educates them in ways to develop medicines and secure a better future that stems from better health. Henny Yudea recalls: “I started my work in the late 1980s when villages surrounding Yogyakarta were going through hard times and the economic situation wasn’t good. The government was so repressive that people couldn’t express their opinions and views as citizens.” As a young activist, she wanted to help people cope with their situation and live better.

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Linked with Refugee Women’s Association, with Centre Médical Evangélique CME, and with Centre de Résolution des Conflits CRC / Alternative Dispute Resolution ARD.

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

She says: « I long for the day I will return home and continue with the peace building process ».

Kongosi is, with her husband Ben, cofounder of the Centre for the Resolution of Conflicts (CRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In June 2001, her life came under threat and she was evacuated to the UK. She is currently studying for an MA in Peace Studies at Bradford University. (Read much more on refugeewomen.org).

Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo

She works for the ‘Centre Médical Evangélique’ CME, and for the ‘Centre de Résolution des Conflits’ CRC / Alternative Dispute Resolution ARD.

Kongosi Onia Mussanzi (52) has spent ten years campaigning and advocating for peace. She co-founded the Centre Résolution Conflits (CRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but had to flee to the UK because of death threats. She is involved in conflict resolution, trauma counseling and reconciliation, with NGOs, churches and political leaders, students and women traumatized through rape.

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

She says: « I believe Poland soon will be among countries realizing equal rights policy for everyone, regardless of their gender ».

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Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland

See her own website in polish language.

On the english wikipedia.

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka went into politics in 1991, shortly after Poland’s political system had transformed from communism to democracy. An ethnographer specializing in Mongolian culture, she quit her scientific career and was a co-founder of the Union of Labor (she left the party in April 2004). She was Poland’s first Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Status of Men and Women. Fifteen years after the beginning of her political career she became Deputy Prime Minister. She is known for her uncompromised fight for human rights, especially those of women and sexual minorities.1989: a historic date for Poland. The country’s political system begins to change from communism to democracy. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, an ethnographer specializing in Mongolia, a mother of two daughters, married to Jerzy Pawel Nowacki, considers entering politics. She is not sure if she can manage. Fifteen years later she is Deputy Prime Minister and a politician known for uncompromised fighting for human rights – women’s and sexual minorities’ rights in particular.

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Linked with Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, and with Texts about Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights.

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

She says: “For us, women, peace is justice. It is respect for our original culture”. She says also: « I feel powerless, because I cannot change this world; I feel pain, because of the injustice in my country. But everything that happened in the past has marked me, has affected me and made me stronger and more able to move forward.” For María Cleofé, “Peace is Justice”.

Read: ‘El país ya tiene nuevos padres de la patria por cinco años‘, 25 de julio , 2006. Also the quechuanetwork, and their Homepage.

María Cleofé Sumire López – Peru

She works for the Andean Women’s Association AMA.

Perú: Lengua quechua: del miedo y desprecio al respeto, Rodrigo Montoya Rojas; ALAI, América Latina en Movimiento, 2006-08-24 – Cuando las señoras Maria Cleofé Sumire de Conde y Hilaria Supa Huamán, juraron sus cargos de congresistas en quechua, lengua de los Incas, la Dra. Martha Hildebrant, una de sus colegas encargadas de tomarles ese juramento no pudo esconder su indignación. Tres semanas después, cuando la señora Supa habló en quechua en una de las Comisiones de trabajo y se negó a hablar en castellano, sus colegas exigieron que hable en castellano. Esta simple historia es un ejemplo de fractura profunda de de la sociedad peruana. (Read all on Coordinadora Andina Organizaciones Indigenas).

María Cleofé Sumire López (54) was born in Cuzco, Peru. She followed the path of her father, who was arrested several times because of his fight for land on behalf of the peasants.

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Linked with Deepening the Work, with International Fellowship of Reconciliation ifor, and with Servicio Paz y Justicia.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr is the honorary president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. Her latest book, How Enemies Become Friends, has been published in German, Italian, and French. (See on Fellowship).

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

She says: « The life of every person has an absolute value ».

Hildegard Goss-Mayr – Austria

She works for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), and for the Service for Peace and Justice (SERPAJ), Brazil.

Hildegard Goss Mayr is one of the world’s leading experts on non-violence. She is the honorary president of International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the world’s oldest organization dedicated to the principles of non-violent resistance. The efforts and training of Hildegard Goss Mayr, along with those of her husband Jean Goss, were a major factor in the successful and peaceful overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.

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Linked with The Afghan Womens Network, and with Canadian women for women in Afghanistan CW4WAfghan.

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

She says: « I know that securing women’s rights in Afghanistan will be a long process. But I am confident that with diligent collaborative efforts of dedicated men and women we can overcome all challenges. ».

Palwasha Hassan – Afghanistan

She works for the Afghan Women’s Education Center (AWEC), for the Afghan Women’s Network (AWN), and for the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s Gender Network (UNAMAGN).

Palwasha Hassan, born in 1969 in Kabul, Afghanistan, obtained a BSc in the Science Program from a government-run college in Islamabad, Pakistan. She is the founder of the Afghan Women’s Education Center, a well-established Afghan women’s organization. She is also a co-founder of the Afghan Women’s Network.

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