- 2006-10-01: Solange Fernex – France (1934 – 2006);
- 2006-10-02: Isabelle Werenfels – Germany;
- 2006-10-03: Bradford Dillman – USA;
- 2006-10-04: Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia;
- 2006-10-05: Paw Lu Lu – Burma;
- 2006-10-06: Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA;
- 2006-10-07: Elsie Monge – Ecuador;
- 2006-10-08: Mireia Uranga Arakistain – Spain;
- 2006-10-09: Anna Politkovskaya – Russian Federation;
- 2006-10-10: Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life;
- 2006-10-10: Margaret Ntuti AKWALU – Kenya;
- 2006-10-10: Martin Ennals – England (1927-1991);
- 2006-10-11: Amin Maalouf – Lebanon & France;
- 2006-10-12: Dianmin Wang – China;
- 2006-10-12: Nick (Nicholas) Turse – USA;
- 2006-10-13: Mama Margaretha SAKO – Indonesia;
- 2006-10-13: Samir Makdisi – Lebanon;
- 2006-10-14: Lan Hsiang Hsu – Taiwan;
- 2006-10-14: Arnold Tsunga – Zimbabwe;
- 2006-10-15: Katajun Amirpur – Germany & Iran;
- 2006-10-16: Gabriel Kolko – USA;
- 2006-10-17: Anabell Guerrero – Venezuela & France;
- 2006-10-18: Doreen Spence – Canada;
- 2006-10-19: Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India;
- 2006-10-20: Ngun Fung Liu – Hong Kong SAR;
- 2006-10-21: Lyudmila Alekseeva – Russian Federation;
- 2006-10-22: Vimukthi Jayasundara – Sri Lanka;
- 2006-10-23: Pierre Salama – France;
- 2006-10-24: Thavrin THONG – Cambodia;
- 2006-10-24: Boua Chanthou – Cambodia;
- 2006-10-25: Fawzia Adam – Somalia;
- 2006-10-26: Ying Ning – China;
- 2006-10-27: Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA;
- 2006-10-28: Rose Marie Muraro – Brazil;
- 2006-10-29: Fiame Naomi Mataafa – Samoa;
- 2006-10-30: Lori Wallach – USA;
- 2006-10-30: Beatriz Benzano Seré – Uruguay;
- 2006-10-31: Wally N’Dow – Gambia.
Mois : octobre 2006
Wally N'Dow – Gambia
Linked with Redefining cities, and with big-picture.tv BPTV.
He says: « The time has come to face the facts. The urban environment is deteriorating: at least 600 million people, for the most part in developing countries, live in insalubrious housing. At least one third of the world’s citydwellers live in inadequate housing conditions ». (Read more on urbanism).
He says also: ”We need, as a society, in nations large and small, things that bind us together rather than divide us. We need that cement of human solidarity ».
Listen to his five minutes video on Big-Picture.
Wally N’Dow – Gambia
And he says: « If you look at the sum total of all our collective endeavours for human welfare, you realise that unless you have a functioning human habitat, you can’t do anything much, for instance, with education – there’s no housing. You can not do anything about health, clean water, you cannot do anything about physical security of people, you cannot do anything at all – at all – about democracy and civic responsibility when these places fail ». (Read the whole interview on Global Vision).
Beatriz Benzano Seré – Uruguay
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “Very soon, I understood that I could not be happy being far away from the people who were suffering. For me, the most important thing is being near the humblest people in my country”.
Beatriz Benzano Seré – Uruguay
She works for ‘Dawn of New Paris Group–Women for a Dignified Life’.
As a Dominican nun, Beatriz Benzano knew the suffering of the marginalized populations of Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Santiago. She left her order and joined the legendary Tupamaros movement, until she was captured, tortured and confined to prison for four years. She returned to Uruguay, from her exile in France, to organize the group Dawn of New Paris–Women for a Dignified Life, helping people living on the streets and families whose lives had been destroyed by unemployment. She particularly dedicated her work to the aid and defense of abandoned women.(Read all on 1000peacewomen).
Elecciones Universitarias 2001.
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Lori Wallach – USA
Linked with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?, with big-picture.tv BPTV, and with The Public Citizen.
She is Trade lawyer and author, and she is the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, an organization founded in 1995 (as a division of Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy group Public Citizen) to promote government and corporate accountability in issues involving trade and globalization. Wallach herself was an early entrant into the anti-globalization arena, founding the Citizens Trade Campaign in 1993.
She says: ” … it didn’t seem like the corporations who should be fighting us on the food-safety bills were fighting us face to face. I started to get this feeling … that there was another door; I was guarding only one door to the bank, and someone was ripping off the loot through another door. So I started snooping around, and after I’d heard « GATT » and « NAFTA » a couple of times, I started thinking, there’s some international negotiation going on that’s going to undo all this food-safety stuff I’m trying to do here in the Congress, and where the heck could it be going on? … « . (Read the whole Interview on ‘Wallach’s Road to Activism: Trade Agreements and Consumer Protection’).
Lori Wallach – USA
She works for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and for the Citizens Trade Campaign.
She says also (excerpt): … « So, interestingly, the administration’s raising [globalization as a remedy to terrorism] has really made people start saying: « Hm. Well, if that’s true, what does it mean? » And then by [the administration’s] saying more of the same answer, it’s gotten a real backlash: It’s gotten a backlash in the public; it’s gotten a backlash in Congress. They’re saying: « Hm. All right.
Fiame Naomi Mataafa – Samoa
Linked with 60 Women contributing to the 60 years of UNESCO.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « A defining moment in my life: we two – the oldest member of Parliament, from a very traditional village and me, the youngest member and a female, walking into Parliament together holding hands ».
She writes also: « … My most ardent wish is that by 2015, despite missed deadlines thus far, we will have achieved the set goals. Our sub-region of small island states is working hard to hold up our art of the sky through collaborative efforts … « (Read all on page 153 of ’60 women write … ‘, an UNESCO pdf-text).
Fiame Naomi Mataafa – Samoa
She works for the Samoa Young Women’s Christian Association YWCA, the National Council of Women, and the Inailau Women’s Leadership Network IWLN.
For over 30 years, Fiame Mataafa has worked on, and been a role model for, promoting and advocating socio-economic and political equality for women and girls in Samoa, through her NGO involvements and her role as politician and Minister of Education. The mentoring of young women leaders is a specific focus, as is a community education program focusing on literacy and business skills training for people with special needs, a first of its kind for Samoa. She effectively bridges and mediates modern and customary faaSamoa (Samoan way of life) ways for herself and for Samoan women and girls. (Read all on 1000peacewomen).
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa is a Samoan high chief and politician. She is a Member of Parliament (HRPP) for the constituency of Lotofaga.
Rose Marie Muraro – Brazil
Linked with .
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “One, who loves, does not compete. Peace depends on the end of the social debt that the developed world has to human beings”.
And: “Without equality between men and women, there will be no peace”.
Rose Marie Muraro – Brazil
Rose Marie Muraro (born 1930) was one of the pioneers in Brazil’s feminist movement. All of her work is connected to the defense of human rights and women’s rights, a militancy that she began in the 1940s together with progressive segments of the Catholic church. All together, Muraro published 26 books, always with the purpose of giving women the power of speech, and promoting equality.
Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA
Linked with Center for Nonviolent Communication, with big-picture.tv BPTV, and with Raising Children Compassionately.
He says: “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart”.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, born in 1934, is the creator of a method of communication called « Nonviolent Communication » (NVC) and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international non-profit organization. In 1961, Dr. Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin and in 1966 was awarded Diplomate status in clinical psychology from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. (Read much more on wikipedia).
Nonviolent Communication training evolved from Dr. Rosenberg’s quest to find a way of rapidly disseminating much needed peacemaking skills. The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s. During this period he provided mediation and communication skills training to communities working to peacefully desegregate schools and other public institutions. (Read more on The Center for Nonviolent Communication).
Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA
Listen to his 9 and a half minutes video on Big Picture.
Excerpt: … Question: It seems that when you pursue that line of communication, reflecting back what is then said, your examples indicate that people seem to become less angry or less violent.
Answer: I would say it’s even more powerful than that. When you get people connected to with what’s alive in each other and you transform enemy images that imply wrongness, when you get people out of their heads in these enemy images, and you get them connected to what everybody’s needing, it’s amazing how people who earlier were wanting to hurt one another now want to contribute to each other’s well-being.
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Ying Ning – China
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “My films are deeply concerned with this life in which I also live. I can deeply sense how terrible it is for a collective to be without memory. I record the human condition of life in turbulence.”
Ying Ning – China
Ning Ying is a well-known film director born in Beijing. She has so far made five feature films and numerous documentaries. The “Beijing Trilogy” is well known for depicting disappearing traditional ways of life, the difficulty of coping with the new changes, and the anxieties of the new generation. Ning has also depicted urgent social issues and imbalanced development in China, such as HIV/Aids, trafficking of women, and street children. Ning Ying is a well-known film director. She was born in the 1950s, her parents were Beijing intellectuals. At the age of 22, in 1978, she was admitted as the first cohort of students to the Beijing Film Academy when university entrance examinations were resumed after the Cultural Revolution. Her classmates were some of the filmmakers now renowned as the “fifth generation” of Chinese filmmakers.
Fawzia Adam – Somalia
Linked with renewal.
She says: « We want to move to a country that treats us like human beings, where we can live in freedom … Ask anyone, we can’t send our children to school. The one job we (women) are allowed to do here is be a cleaner ».
And: « The Egyptian government will never help. The U.N. just stood by. If there’s no solution we will all have to just kill ourselves. This is the final solution, so that world knows it’s impossible to live like this ».
Fawzia Adam – Somalia (Somaliland *)
She works with RAAD.uk
Born in 1962 to an upper middle class family in the Galgaduud region of Somalia, Ms Asha Hagi Elmi Amin had more opportunities than many of her fellow countrywomen. She did not let them pass her by unused. In 1986 she completed an Economics degree at the Somalia National University (SNU), and by 1991 she had a Masters in Management and Organisational Development and a Masters in Business Administration from the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya.
Boua Chanthou – Cambodia
Linked with NGO Forum on Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, with DCA DanChurchAid Cambodia – the right to food, and with Thavrin THONG – Cambodia.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « We hope that what we are doing is bringing about reform from the bottom, and that the concepts of democracy and transparency are instilled in the minds of people ».
And: “After these encounters I wanted to do something to rebuild my country. Cambodia then was isolated from the rest of the world. It had to start from an empty hand to rebuild the country after the long isolation from 1979 to 1991”.
And also: “I found that people were very strong and resourceful. I was amazed at the way they gathered themselves after the catastrophe to start a new life with little assistance. I was sad to see how little people had, and was angry at the system of resource distribution in our country. But I was hopeful”.
Boua Chanthou – Cambodia
She works for Partnership for Development in Kampuchea (Padek).
Boua Chanthou (born 1952) left Cambodia to go to school abroad in 1972. When she returned eight years later at the end of the civil war, her country was devastated and deserted. Boua decided to work for its reconstruction.