We are
featuring women who come to our attention through consultation with women's
organizations around the world - ie.
We will also be searching
traditional and alternative media for featured women in activism, the arts
and politics. Some women that we are asking to be a part of this exciting
project are (arranged by country):
- Australia:
Helen Caldicott, global peace and environmental activist.
- Afghanistan:
Mahro and Treena, from the The
Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan - who fight for
human rights and social justice in Afghanistan.
- Argentina:
- Bosnia/Iraq:
- Brasil:
- Lucilla
Pizani Goncales, works with families in the poverty stricken
favellas outside Sao Paulo.
- Dr.
Nancy Cardia - an author and human rights activist, as well
as the leader of the human rights group of the Center
for the Study of Violence at the University of Sao Paulo.
- Canada:
- Jane
Frost & Brenda Hochachka the leader and one of the founders
of the breast cancer dragon boat team "Abreast
in a Boat" in Vancouver.
- Sharon
Labchuk, an environmentalist against pesticide use
in PEI.
- Joanna
Manning - started the Anne
Frank House in Toronto - ex-Nun who takes a stand against the
catholic church and is involved with pro-choice antiviolence movements
- Francoise
David
- Quebecoise feminist and driving force behind the World
March of Women.
- Kim
Pate - Director of the Elizabeth
Fry Societies of Canada
- Chile:
- Adriana
Hoffman, founder of Defenders of
the Woods, in Santiago.
- China
(Hong Kong):
- Emily
Lau, democratic activist who is known for her fight for freedom
for the presses and democracy.
- Meilin
Wu, Co-ordinator of the Hong Kong
Women Worker's Association who works to unite and organize
low wage women factory workers in Hong Kong and China.
- Egypt:
- Nawal
el Saadawi who is an Egyptian psychiatrist and genderactivist.
- England:
- Selma
James, from Wages for Housework
Campaign
- Georgina
Ashworth,
a gender development activist whose group, CHANGE (PO Box 824,
London SE24 9JS. Tel/fax: (0171) 277-6187) aims to educate and alert
public opinion to the inequalities that are imposed upon women through
law, practice and custom by disseminating information; also to campaign,
lobby and train around women's issues.
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- France:
- Nathalie
Geismar Bonnemains from the Angry
Mother's Collective, an activist against nuclear power.
- Guatemala:
- Sebastiana
Panto, one of the first women to begin Ruth
and Nohemi, a weaving cooperative formed by women who are widows
of the war in Guatemala.
- Angela
Bailo Perez, who heads UPAVIM,
a group of about 66 women who live in La Esperenza, a squatters settlement
on the hillsides of the city.
- Hungary:
- Agnes
Daroczi, Roma (Gypsy) women's activist.
- India:
- Metda
Patkar, a leading activist in the Narmada Dam protest.
- Vasudha
Dhaganwar, a legal activist who goes to rural communities to
educate women on their rights
- Vandana
Shiva, World renowned
Indian Eco-feminist and author.
- Enakshi
Ganguly Thukral, who is Co-executive Secretary, along with
Bharti Ali of HAQ:Centre
for Child Rights.
- Italy:
- Kenya:
- Priscilla
Nangurai,
a Masai educator who has gained a reputation as a defender of the
rights of young Masai girls.
- The women of
Somali Women's Association For National Development,
Nairobi, Kenya
- Nigeria:
- Northern
Ireland:
- Peru:
- Mama
Toribia, Andean Elder and activist.
- Russia:
- Tatyana
Mamanova, feminist, author, artist.
- The women of
Soldiers Mothers of Moscow.
- Anastasia
Posadskaya-Vanderbeck who co-ordinates programs that focus
on the rights of women in eastern Europe
- Sierra
Leone:
- Olayinka
Koso Thomas, doctor and female genital mutilation activist
- South
Africa:
- Zodwa
Mqadi,
director of the Agape Child Care and Support Centre, Waterfall South
Africa, who works with AIDS orphans
- Tandaswa
Ndita,
a judge who goes out into tribal communities to educate women on their
human rights
- Sudan:
- Anisia
Achieng, a
member of the Sudanese Women's Voice of Peace:
c/o UNIFEM, Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254-2-743855 or 748523
- Thailand:
- Chatsumarn
Kabilsingh, Bhuddist feminist author and activist who deals
with prostituion and trafficking of women.
- Siriporn
Skrobanek was the founder of the Global
Alliance Against the Trafficking of Women,
- U.S.A.:
- Jody
Williams, Land-mine activist and Nobel prize winner.
- Katsi
Cook Mohawk midwife who founded the first breast
feeding awareness program in native communities, Akwesasne.
- Clementina
Chéry, a gun control/peace activist in Boston whose
teenage son was gunned down in 1993.
- Robin
Morgan, feminist author and poet.
- The
Guerrilla Girls, New York a group of artists who call attention
to the gender imbalance in the art world.
- Vietnam: