Mois : novembre 2006

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

She says: « I shall not stand aloof from the peasants and the transient migrant workers and give instructions about what is to be done. I shall be one with them ».

Ling Zhao – China

She works for the Peasants’ Children – China Rural Development and Promotion Association, Beijing Normal University.

Zhao Ling was born in 1980 and is now president of the Peasants’ Children – China Rural Development and Promotion Association in Beijing Normal University. For many years she has been concerned about the education of migrant workers’ children. She organizes educational activities for these children, and conducts surveys of college students aimed at supporting peasants. Her actions inspire many college students to be concerned about agriculture, rural areas and peasants, as well as the conditions of migrant workers from the countryside. Such activities have now spread throughout the country. Zhao Ling is an only child whose family belongs to Chongqing City in Sichuan Province. Before she entered college, Zhao Ling led a fairly sheltered life under her parents’ protection, and her attitude to life reflected the privileged existence she had led. She knew nothing, for example, about how crops were grown or harvested, she couldn’t tell the difference between two types of grain, and had probably never noticed the scent of flowers and the singing of birds. She was allowed to do nothing but study. Thus her childhood and teenage years were, as she described it, as dim and depressed as the rainy weather in Chongqing city.

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

She says: « Life is a never-ending learning process. I learned everyone is unique, yet everyone has equal rights. I learned it is essential to defend such rights, to respect the rich diversity of cultures ».

Ruth Weiss – Germany

An exemplary biography of the 20th century: Ruth Weiss is born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1924. In 1936, she arrives in South Africa with her family and experiences the development of apartheid. She defies the system with her typewriter, quietly but with determination, in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Europe. She does research, reports, forms friendships, participates in projects to overcome racism. Her strongest quality: she listens. Listening is the basis for understanding, understanding paves the way to reconciliation – a model for peace that can be applied globally.

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Linked with WEST PAPUA, the forgotten story of a people in crisis, and with Agenda, Empowering Women for Gender Eqity.

And linked also with Statement … The West Papua Case, with Petition Letter the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, with Yan Christian Warinussy – Indonesia, and with Crisis Center SAG SULUTTENG.

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

It is said about her: Paula has faced many hardships with determination.

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Paula Makabory – Indonesia

She works for Elsham.

Paula Makabory was born in Manokwari in West Papua in 1970, a year after the divisive “Act of Free Choice” led to Indonesian control of the territory of West Papua. She is the ninth of 12 siblings raised in a devout, modest Protestant family. She graduated in 1997 from the only state-run university in the region, Cendrawasih University, where she majored in English literature. During her college years, Paula became interested in social issues in particular human rights and women’s rights. Shortly after graduation, she joined Elsham, a determined and bold human rights NGO based in the provincial capital, Jayapura. When Elsham offered her a job, Paula accepted without hesitation.

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Linked with Mongolian Women’s NGO Coalition.

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

She says: “Be a model of being healthy mentally and in the heart by the way of self-development”.

Semjidmaa Damba – Mongolia

She works for the Mongolian Union of Vulnerable Group Business Women, mentionned as ‘Association of Business Women of Vulnerable Group’ on the Mongolian Women’s NGO Coalition.

Born in 1943 to a nomadic Buryat family in Mongolia, Semjidmaa Damba was an enthusiastic student who chose to become a telecommunications engineer. Her diploma work at the Odessa Institute (former Soviet Union) in 1967 helped to considerably improve local automatic telephone stations in Mongolia. Semjidmaa taught telecommunications and information technology for many years, but stopped when she lost her working capacity because of disability. Her spirit, however, remained strong and soon she started, alongside other women, the Mongolian Union of Vulnerable Group Business Women.Semjidmaa Damba belongs to the Buryat ethnic branch of the Mongolian nation.

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Linked with Globalization and the Eradication of Poverty, with Human Rights as Education for Peace, with Netherlands Plans Public Muslim Veil Ban, with U.S. Changing Course In Iraq?, with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN – Nigeria, and with The harm at home and abroad.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: « A world without war is too important to be the responsibility of any single government, no matter how powerful.

Our challenge is to find one shared humanity in the face of our diversity ».

She says also: « Peace consolidation is an uncertain enterprise. It is one thing to agree to a ceasefire, and quite another to move from there to a point where societies can resolve conflicts through inclusive governance without reverting to armed combat. This year we have seen many examples –from Timor Leste to the Solomon Islands , Afghanistan to Iraq , the process of establishing a secure peace appears even more difficult than it did a year ago. With the setting up of the Peace Building Commission, the UN has strengthened its peacebuilding architecture, increasing coherence in fulfilling its peacebuilding mandate. But today we must ask what else is urgently needed, and how Security Council resolution 1325 could be more effectively implemented to bring about just and sustainable peace ». (Read more on maxim’s news).

Read: WOMEN’S ROLES IN PEACE.

Noeleen Heyzer – USA

She works for the United Nations Development Fund for Women Unifem, the Development Alternative for Women for a New Era DAWN, and the Asia Pacific Women in Law and Development.

Read: High Level Panel Approves UN Agency for Women Proposal.

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Linked with ‘What It Means to « Salvage U.S. Prestige » in Iraq‘, with Globalization and the Eradication of Poverty, with The harm at home and abroad, with U.S. Changing Course In Iraq?, and with Human Rights as Education for Peace.

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

She says: « The ultimate goal of peace education is the formation of responsible, committed, and caring citizens who have integrated the values into everyday life and acquired the skills to advocate for them ».

She says also: « The conceptual core of peace education is violence, it’s control, reduction, and elimination. The conceptual core of human rights education is human dignity, its recognition, fulfillment, and universalization. As I have argued elsewhere, human rights is most readily adaptable to the study of positive peace, the social, political and economic conditions most likely to provide the environment and process for social cohesion and non-violent conflict resolution. It is the contention of this essay that education for peace should be primarily perscriptive, and that human rights offers the most appropriate route through which to move from problem to prescription in all the various approaches to peace education. Positive peace, conceptualized by the peace research community to extend the definition of peace beyond the limitation avoidance or absence of war to include issues of justice, poverty, and freedom, is the concept of peace that is the foundational principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The inextricable relationship between human rights and peace is articulated in the very first sentence of the Preamble to the Declaration, …recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world. » Since the core and seminal document for all current standards of human rights, to which all members of the United Nations are assumed to assent, acknowledges this principle, surely education for peace should also do so. Certainly, both peace researchers and activists and human rights scholars and advocates can agree that violence in all its forms is terms an assault on human dignity ». (See on pdhre.org).

Betty A. Reardon – USA

Books: Comprehensive Peace Education, Educating for Global Responsibility (Paperback), Sexism and the War System (Paperback).

She works for the Peace Education Center at Teachers College (Columbia University, and the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education.

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Linked with The Case of Shiyeyi in Botswana, with The Kamanakao Association, and with Africa and Poverty.

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

She says: ”There is great potential to revive the language. If the middle aged, who are the majority in the workshops, can gain a sense of self-worthy as Wayeyi and begin to speak the language to their children, the language can survive. The starting point is self-discovery and appreciation of ones language and culture ». (Literacy online).

Lydia’s struggle is genuine; she has approached it with a great sense of responsibility, patience, dedication, and selflessness. She is determined to achieve equality and unity through peaceful means.

Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo – Botswana

She works as a co-founder of the Kamanakao Association, a pressure group for the linguistic and cultural rights of Wayeyi tribe. She organises workshops to collect data on the language, for a preliminary draft orthography. Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo (48) was born in Botswana. She obtained her Masters’ and PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is associate professor and dean at the Faculty of Education at the University of Botswana. She is co-founder of the Kamanakao Association, a pressure group for the linguistic and cultural rights of the Wayeyi tribe. She is also founder of Reteng, a multicultural coalition of Botswana people. Through her efforts, the government of Botswana set up a committee to review all laws that discriminate against non-Tswanas.

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