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Linked with Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises Tanzania PRIDE, and with HONOR YOUR PROMISE CRY THE ONDOA UMASKINI CAMPAIGN.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born July 9, 1956 in Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician. On January 5, 2007, she was named as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She was formally appointed and assumed office on February 5, 2007. She is married to Cleophas Migiro, and the couple has two daughters. (full text, and her profile).

Read: Somali peace, President Kibaki appeals to the International community to assist.

She says: « The approach to population and development should be interdisciplinary. Learn people’s priorities and become their partners in development. That approach will promote a peaceful and hopeful future ». (1000PeaceWomen).

Read: Migiro urges comprehensive approach to tackle ‘feminization of AIDS’.

She says also: « In all I do I will strive to bring about a more integrated United Nations, which delivers as one, I am also fully committed to supporting the priorities set by the Secretary-General, strengthening the work of the United Nations, enhancing trust between member states and the Secretariat, and bolstering the working culture of the Organization to ensure it is equipped to meet the mandates our membership has given us » … and: « I look forward to the task ahead with excitement and enthusiasm, but equally with profound humility, and above all I look forward to working with the Secretary-General to implement his vision ». (full text).

Read: Kenya: UN Official Calls for Unity in Achieving Development.

Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania

She works for the Family Planning Association of Tanzania UMATI (named on UN.org), for the Tanzania Association of Non-Governmental Organisations TANGO, and for the Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises Tanzania PRIDE.

Read: Political unity solution to Somali crisis: UN.

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Linked with Toita Yunusova – Russian Federation, and with Fatima Gazieva – Russian Federation.

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

She says: « Peace is when children can be merry, when it is possible to carelessly enjoy the sun and the wind, the rain and the snow. I live with the hope that such peace will return to Chechnya ».

« O ursoaica, murind de foame, a decis sa–si manance propriul pui. Dar mai intai l–a tavalit prin noroi, ca sa nu–l recunoasca, » spune un proverb cecen. Asa a procedat Rusia cu noi, mai intai ne–a aruncat in noroiul terorirsmului, ca sa ne poata inghiti cu usurinta, – imi spunea zilele trecute Zarema Omarova. (full text).

Zarema Omarova – Russian Federation

She works for Ekho Voiny/Echo of War (mentionned on Prague Watchdog), and for Dieti Chiechni/Children of Chechnya.

Victims of Stalin’s deportation of the Chechen people to Central Asia, Zarema Omarova (born 1941) and her parents returned to their motherland in 1957. Zarema has worked in different educational establishments in Grozny introducing progressive teaching techniques. She also worked as a secretary at the regional Communist Party committee and for the Deputy Minister of Education of Chechnya. In both these positions, she promoted inter-ethnic peace.

An active member of the NGOs Echo of War and Children of Chechnya, she is engaged in peace activities and providing humanitarian aid to Chechnya. Zarema Omarova is a remarkable representative of Chechen women. After 13 years of deportation in Central Asia and Kazakhstan she returned to her homeland to shoulder a heavy burden, which was also a very inspiring challenge – the cause of the Chechen national revival.

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Linked with the West Africa Early Warning & Response Network WARN, and with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding WANEP.

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

She says: « The economic promotion of women is one of the fundamental ways of giving women a sense of dignity ».

Read: Religions for Peace.

Sorry, I can not find any photo of Cissé Hadja Mariama Sow, Guinea (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

She works for l’Union des Femmes Oulémas de Guinée UFOG, for the Coordination Office of the Associations of the Muslim Women of Guinea, (both not found in the internet), and for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding WANEP.

Cissé Hadja Mariama Sow was born into a large Peuhl family in the region of Labé in Guinea and is a national of that country today. She is president of the Union of Oulémas Women of Guinea (UFOG) and has had a brilliant political and professional career. She is married and is the mother of eight children. Mariama Sow has never given up work despite her advanced age since, according to her, there are always challenges and it is necessary to confront them.

The success of her work is measured by how she propelled Guinean women into an African women’s movement. The fight of Guinean women under Ahmed Sékou Touré (1958-1984) was so well conducted that she served as a reference for women of other African countries, especially French-speaking countries.

Hadja Mariame Sow had a lot to do with raising the consciousness of Guinean people.

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

She says: « My trick is to talk to people using ordinary language in an ordinary manner that allows them to relate to my cause. It’s ineffective to raise yourself above the people whose support you want ».

Katsuko Nomura – Japan, 2004 (in interview)

She works for the Livelihood Cooperative Association, for the Women’s Occupational Association, and for the Laborers’ Families’ Organization.
Further she had worked for the Consumers’ Union of Japan, and she founded the Overseas Citizens’ Activities Information Center, as also the Information Center for Public Citizens.
(Sorry, no website found with an english text for one of these NGOs, they may exist in Japanese).

Katsuko Nomura, called the pioneer of Japan’s NGO movement, has helped to ensure social justice for Japan’s citizens for more than half a century.

After the war, appalled by the scarcity of food, Katsuko lobbied general headquarters for a consumer cooperative law. As a result, the Japan Life Society Cooperative Law was passed in 1948. The law placed more rights into the hands of consumers, who as a result became more effective in solving the problems of daily life in post-war Japan.

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Linked with Southern African Regional Poverty Network SARPN, with Assessing the Scope of National and Supra-National Parliaments to Form African Policies, and with African NGOs and the Pan African Parliament.

Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella is the president of the Pan-African Parliament. She was born in 1945 in Ukerewe, Lake Victoria, Tanganyika, Tanzania.

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

She is also a Better World Hero.

She says: « If we are to remain free, if we are to enjoy the full benefits of Africa’s rich resources, we must unite to plan for our total defence and full exploitation of our material and human means in the full interest of our peoples. To go it alone will limit our horizons, curtail our expectations and threaten our liberty ». (full text).

She says also:  » … the problem (of youth joblessness) largely contributes to fast spread of AIDS as some jobless youths have turned to immoral practices for their livelihood. (full text).

Contact information of Pan-African Parliament.

Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella – Tanzania

She is member of of the following groups:

• Southern African Regional Poverty Network SARPN;
• The Tanzania Association of Women Leaders in Agriculture and Environment TAWALE;
• Society for Women and Aids in Africa Tanzania Branch SWAAT;
• Tanzania Dental Association TDA;
• United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, board of trustees: on UN.org/, and on Dept. of Foreign Affairs ZA;
• Meaendeleo ya Wanawake Ukeuewe MAWAU.

Until the African parliament is elected by universal suffrage in early 2009, some its resolutions still require confirmation by the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government. All the other institutions of the AU government, including the African Union Commission, are subordinate to, and accountable to the Parliament. (full long text on her activities).

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Linked with The BEIJING COMMITTEE in GUATEMALA, and with CLADEM, the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights.

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

She says: « Fight for earning rights » … and: « No matter how big or small my knowledge is, it must be for the good of the women of my country » … and: « These generations are not submissive anymore. They demand autonomy, both collectively and for the individual. It is important and therefore it is worth fighting for ».

She says also: « Peace is the basis of democracy. Without democracy there is no peace. All men and women must become part of our commitment to give it life all over the world. Peace is not an isolated condition. If that harmony is going to be produced there must be articulation in an international context. Conflicts must be resolved by dialogue and negotiation. The mechanism of coercion as a means of bringing about decisions must be rejected. There cannot be any harmony within a framework of inequality and oppression. Peace is the fundamental aim ».

Alicia Amalia Rodríguez Illescas – Guatemala

She works for the Beijing Committee in Guatemala.

And she says: « When the confrontation is between women that means that you already have a lot to do, for example, to develop a critical consciousness. This is a pending item even if it is part of the process, and that is frustrating. We give ourselves the right to suffer and cry, to question why things are the way they are, but we must rise to the occasion. We must do what we have to do » … and: « We Guatemalan women have begun the process: to dream of peace, to commence the transition in order to build a different State. As in the rest of the world, the oppression of women and indigenous people is an unresolved matter ».

Alicia Amalia Rodríguez Illescas (57) is mother, diplomat, Doctor in Political Science, professor, feminist, promoter of laws, and defender of the human rights of women. She has built her life on wisdom, uprightness and devotion. She dedicates her life to engineering a better future. Along with other women, she rebels, makes proposals and takes decisions.

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Linked with Gender poverty and sustainable environmental management, with Change in Adult Education, and with African Women Pioneeres / Femmes Africa Solidarité.

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

It is said: « Good human relations, that are a very important aspect of the African culture, have made Kate one of the most distinguished in her field of operation ».

She is also ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS & CONSULTANTS, CSPS;
and Principal/Senior Lecturer (Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana, Legon); B.A. (Political Science), University of Ghana, Legon; M.Phil. (Adult Education), University of Ghana, Legon.

Ghana News Agency quoted Kate Adoo-Adeku, a member of SWAA as saying that although laws existed in various countries, the peculiar nature of the AIDS epidemic and the violations of the rights of infected people warranted the enactment of specific legal interventions to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS. (full text).

Sorry, I can not find any photo that I can copy of Kate Adoo Adeku, Ghana (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

She works for the Society for Women Against AIDS in Africa SWAA, for the Institute of Adult Education at the University of Ghana (scroll down to item 22), for Peace Now, and for ‘Population and Development PAD’.

Professor Kate Adoo Adeku (60) is a courageous lady who grew up in a small farming community. She not only teaches but is also active in different non-governmental organizations (see above).
Since she was 12, Kate Adoo Adeku took several actions with the intention of changing the situation of her sisters in rural and urban communities for a better quality of life.

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