WOMEN OF PLANET EARTH

WOMEN VICTIMS OF TORTURE PROTEST

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Chilean women, victims of torture by army officer Miguel Krassnoff protest in front of Club Providencia where he was being celebrated by fellow officers.

SISTERS CELEBRATING THE RIGHT TO VOTE

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PACHI SHARES ABOUT MELLOWSWAN FOUNDATION

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GREAT WOMEN

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Josefa de Dominguez
b. 1768, Morelia, Mexico; d. 1829, Mexico City

Josefa Ortiz married Miguel Domínguez in 1791 and moved to the town of Querétaro, where he was appointed corregidor (magistrate) by the viceroy of New Spain. Querétaro was a hotbed of revolutionary activity and Josefa was sympathetic to the independence cause. Miguel, as the highest official in town, had knowledge of crown affairs. Soon their home became a clearinghouse for information, with Josefa running intelligence to the independencistas, who were preparing to launch an uprising in December 1810. Colonial authorities got wind of the plans and ordered the town searched. Josefa warned the rebel leader, Miguel Hidalgo, who issued the call to arms on September 16, setting off the War of Independence. Josefa's role in the insurrection was eventually discovered and she was imprisoned in a nunnery from 1813 to 1817. La Corregidora, as she is known, is today revered as a heroine of the anticolonial struggle.

Rosa Chouteau
Flourished circa 1875, Oklahoma

The correct spelling of this name is ROSANA CHOUTEAU.

Rosana Chouteau was elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the Native American Osage Nation, in 1875, following the death of her uncle. She was the first female clan chief of that tribe

Ana Betancourt
b. 1832, Cuba; d. 1895, Cuba

The Cuban war of independence from Spain began in 1868. Mambisas—rebel women—played a crucial role in the insurgency, as political agitators, nurses, and fighters on the front lines. Ana Betancourt, a mambisa from a wealthy landholding family, belonged to the first generation of Cuban feminists. In 1869, she addressed the Constitutional Congress on behalf of women's rights, linking female emancipation to the abolition of slavery and the anticolonial struggle. Betancourt's plea went unheeded.

FAMOUS WOMEN

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Saint Joan of Arc,

1412 � 30 May 1431
nicknamed "The Maid of Orl�ans" (French: Jeanne d'Arc, is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII.
She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old.
Twenty-five years after the execution, Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr.Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920.[2] She is � along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux � one of the patron saints of France.

Joan asserted that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orl�ans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.

Santa Juana de Arco
6 de enero de 1412 � 30 de mayo de 1431,
tambi�n conocida como la Doncella de Orl�ans (o, en franc�s, la Pucelle), fue una hero�na, militar y santa francesa. Su festividad se celebra el d�a del aniversario de su muerte, como es tradici�n en la Iglesia Cat�lica, el 30 de mayo.Nacida en Domr�my, peque�o poblado situado en el departamento de los Vosgos en la regi�n de la Lorena, Francia, ya con 17 a�os encabez� el ej�rcito real franc�s. Convenci� al rey Carlos VII de que expulsar�a a los ingleses de Francia y �ste le dio autoridad sobre su ej�rcito en el Sitio de Orleans, la batalla de Patay y otros enfrentamientos en 1429 y 1430. Estas campa�as revitalizaron la facci�n de Carlos VII durante la Guerra de los Cien A�os y permitieron la coronaci�n del monarca.

Como recompensa, el rey eximi� al pueblo natal de Juana de Domr�my del impuesto anual a la corona. Esta ley se mantuvo en vigor hasta hace aproximadamente cien a�os. Posteriormente fue capturada por los borgo�ones y entregada a los ingleses. Los cl�rigos la condenaron por herej�a y el duque Juan de Bedford la quem� viva en Ruan. La mayor�a de los datos sobre su vida se basan en las actas de aquel proceso pero, en cierta forma, est�n desprovistos de cr�dito pues, seg�n diversos testigos presenciales del juicio, fueron sometidos a multitud de correcciones por orden del obispo Cauchon, as� como a la introducci�n de datos falsos. Entre estos testigos estaba el escribano oficial, designado s�lo por Cauchon, quien afirma que en ocasiones hab�a secretarios escondidos detr�s de las cortinas de la sala esperando instrucciones para borrar o agregar datos a las actas.

Susan Brownell Anthony

(February 15, 1820 � March 13, 1906)

was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women�s rights movement to introduce women�s suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women�s Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.She also co-founded the women�s rights journal, The Revolution. She traveled the United States and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year.She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women�s rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government.

Marian Anderson

A photograph of Anderson by Carl Van Vechten taken in 1940.

(February 27, 1897 � April 8, 1993)

Marian Anderson was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.

Music critic Alan Blyth said �Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty.�Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Although she was offered contracts to perform roles with many important European opera companies, Anderson declined all of these, preferring to perform in concert and recital only. She did, however, perform opera arias within her concerts and recitals. She made many recordings that reflected her broad performance repertoire of everything from concert literature to lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals.

Anderson became an important figure in the struggle for black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid twentieth century. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall. Their race-driven refusal placed Anderson into the spotlight of the international community on a level usually only found by high profile celebrities and politicians. With the aid of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to a crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions. She continued to break barriers for black artists in the United States, becoming the first black person, American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955. Her performance as Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi�s Un ballo in maschera at the Met was the only time she sang an opera role on stage.
Anderson was also an important symbol of grace and beauty during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She also worked for several years as a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and as a �goodwill ambassadress� for the United States Department of State. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

Marian Anderson�s picture appears in on the $5000 paper Series I Bond issued by the US Treasury.

,ANNE BOLEYN, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT,

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Anne Boleyn

c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536)

was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.[5] Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. A commoner, Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Claude of France. She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.
In the spring of 1523 there was a secret betrothal between Anne and Henry Percy son of the 5th Duke of Northumberland. However, in January of 1524 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey broke the betrothal, Anne was sent back home to Hever Castle, and Percy was married to
Lady Mary Talbot, to whom he had been betrothed since adolescence.
In February/ March of 1526 Henry VIII began courtly pursuit of Anne. She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress as her sister Mary had. It soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to annul his marriage to Queen Catherine so he would be free to marry Anne. When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the power of the Catholic Church in England began.

Ana Bolena
reina consorte de Inglaterra, primera marqués de Pembroke.
Su fecha de nacimiento solía fijarse en 1507, pero los historiadores más modernos la datan en 1501 (— 19 de mayo de 1536).2 Ana fue la segunda esposa del rey Enrique VIII y la madre de la reina Isabel I. El matrimonio de Enrique y Ana y su posterior ejecución, fueron parte del complejo comienzo de la considerable agitación política y religiosa que fue la Reforma inglesa, con Ana participando activamente en la promoción de la causa de la reforma de la Iglesia. La han llamado «la reina consorte más influyente e importante que Inglaterra ha tenido nunca».

Ana Bolena es popularmente conocida por haber sido decapitada bajo acusación de adulterio, incesto y traición. Está extensamente asumido el haber sido inocente de los cargos, y fue conmemorada más tarde como mártir en la cultura Protestante inglesa, particularmente por los trabajos de John Foxe.

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott at about age 25

Born November 29, 1832Germantown, PA, U.S.
Died March 6, 1888 (aged 55)Boston, MA, U.S.
Pen name A. M. Barnard
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Period Civil war
Subjects Young Adult stories
Notable work(s) Little Women

She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.

AWASHONKS ,JANE ADDAMS

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Awashonks
Flourished circa 1671, Rhode Island

Awashonks was a Native American woman who served as chief of the Sakonnet tribe in Seconet, Rhode Island. In 1671, she was among the signers of a peace agreement between a confederation of local tribes and Plymouth Colony. However, she supported Chief Metacom when, after suffering years of humiliation at the hands of the whites, he broke the treaty in 1675 and attacked the English settlers. The conflict, known as King Philip's War, ended in a white victory in 1676, but by that time Awashonks had made peace with the settlers and switched sides.

Jane Addams

(September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935)

She was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Alongside presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health and world peace. She emphasized that women have a special responsibility to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they needed the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities.
She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

ANNIE DODGE WAUNEKA

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Annie Dodge Wauneka

Birth: 1910 -
Death: 1997
Born In: Arizona, United States of
America
Died In: Arizona,
United States of America
Achievements: Science
Educated In: Arizona
Countries Educated In: United States of
America
Schools Attended:
Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding School, University of Arizona
Worked In: Arizona, New Mexico,
District of Columbia
Countries Worked
In: United States of America

Annie Dodge Wauneka, tribal leader of the Navajo Nation and public health
activist, worked tirelessly to improve the health and welfare of the Navajo
Tribe and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis nationwide. Born in 1910 in a
traditional Navajo hogan, Wauneka was raised by her father, one of the
wealthiest men of the Navajo Tribe. While taught Navajo history and culture,
Wauneka also gained a general education. When she was eight, while attending a
government-run school on the reservation, a tragic event occurred which helped
shape the rest of her life. An influenza epidemic struck. Thousands of Navajos,
including many of Wauneka’s classmates, died. Wauneka escaped with only a mild
case that left her resistant to the disease. Thus she was able to care for those
who were too ill to feed themselves. After graduation and her marriage to George
Wauneka, Annie continued to travel with her father, observing the poverty and
disease that plagued most of the Navajo. She studied public health and then,
realizing that the best way to change the standards of health and sanitation
among tribal members was from within, Wauneka gained election in 1951 to the
Tribal Council, the second woman ever so elected. During her three terms in
office, Wauneka led the fight against tuberculosis. She wrote a dictionary to
translate English words into Navajo for modern medical techniques, such as
vaccination. Her weekly radio broadcasts, in the Navajo language, explained how
modern medicine could help improve health among the Navajo. She also worked on other health problems including better care for pregnant women and new babies,regular eye and ear examinations, and alcoholism. She continued working in her community on health issues until her death in 1997. She helped improve housing and sanitation conditions and convinced her tribe to adopt many modern medical practices and avail themselves of hospital care, when needed. She also served on the advisory boards of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1963, Wauneka became the first Native American to receive the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ladies’ Home Journal selected her a Woman of the Year in 1976. In 1984, the Navajo Council designated her “The Legendary Mother of the Navajo Nation.” All recognize that through her efforts in education and health, the lives of every Navajo, as well as the nation at large, have been
improved.

ANNA HOWARD SHAW MD

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Anna Howard Shaw

Birth: 1847 -
Death: 1919
Born In: , England
Died In: ,
Achievements: Humanities

Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw, minister, physician, ardent feminist, and masterful orator, worked to improve individual morality through her ministry, tried to improve society by moving into the temperance and suffrage movements, and finally campaigned vigorously for the League of Nations to promote world peace. Essentially self-taught, Shaw’s first career, to help support her family,
was as a frontier school teacher. Her father having let the family down on several occasions, at the age of twelve Shaw had to assume the burden of the survival of her semi-invalid mother and her siblings. From this experience, Shaw developed both a low opinion of men’s abilities and an ambition to excel in a man’s world, passions that helped shape her career. After the Civil War, she was able to move into the home of a married sister and attend high school. She became active in the Methodist church, preaching her first sermon when she was
twenty-three and becoming a licensed to preach a year later. In 1873, she entered Albion College, paying for her two years of education there by preaching and giving lectures on temperance. In 1876, she left Albion to attend Boston Theological Seminary. Upon graduation, in 1878, as the only woman in her class, she took charge of a church in East Dennis, Massachusetts, but the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church refused her application for ordination because she was a woman. It also took steps to revoke her preaching license. Finally, in 1880, Shaw convinced the Methodist Protestant Church to
grant her ordination so she could administer the sacraments and continue her ministry in East Dennis. In addition to ministering at two churches, Shaw earned a medical degree from Boston University in 1886. However, she never practiced medicine. Instead, she resigned her pastorates in 1885 to take up the banners of temperance and women’s suffrage. From the 1880s until her death in 1919, Shaw worked at the grass roots level throughout the country to achieve women’s suffrage. For a few years she headed the Franchise Department of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union. In 1904 she became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. During World War I, Shaw turned her attention to foreign affairs. She became chair of the Woman’s Committee of the United States Council of National Defense, coordinating women’s contributions to the war effort. For this work, in 1919 she became the first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal. At the end of the war, at the request of President Woodrow Wilson and former President William Howard Taft, she lectured in the
United States and Europe in support of world peace and the League of Nations.

It was during one of those speaking tours that she fell ill and died in July, 1919, at the age of seventy-two. While Shaw died just before the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was ratified, she fulfilled her vision of success: “Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.”

ANNE SULLIVAN

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Anne Sullivan (Anne
Sullivan Macy)

Birth: 1866 –

Death: 1936
Born In: Massachusetts, United States of America
Achievements: Education
Educated In: Massachusetts
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: Perkins School for the Blind
Worked In: Alabama, Massachusetts, New York
Countries Worked In: United States of America

Born in 1866, Anne Sullivan lost her mother when she was young and her father became an alcoholic. She and her siblings were sent to live with relatives, but in 1876 the family sent Annie and her youngest brother to the Tewksbury, Massachusetts poorhouse. There she lost her sight to trachoma. After four years, she was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston and
eventually received medical treatment that restored her sight. Upon graduation from Perkins in 1886, she began to teach. The next year, the Headmaster of Perkins wrote to her about the situation of a student who was blind and deaf, unable to communicate and demonstrating violent temper tantrums. No one had been successful in reaching her.

Anne Sullivan rose to the challenge and traveled to Alabama to meet Helen Keller. Sullivan had learned the manual alphabet and immediately began to teach Keller by letting her touch things. Sullivan would then spell what the object was in Keller’s hand. Sullivan succeeded in teaching Keller to read, write and minimally speak.

In 1904, Keller graduated from Radcliffe College, supported by Sullivan’s presence. Sullivan and Keller became world famous through Keller’s writing, lectures and other public appearances. Sullivan’s dedication and innovative teaching had made it possible for Keller to break through the formidable barriers that challenged people with multiple
disabilities. Both became role models for thousands of physically challenged people around the world and raised thousands of dollars for organizations that assisted the blind. Sullivan’s focus, persistence, and creativity forged a model that contributed to changing public perceptions regarding the capabilities of people with disabilities.

Her insight and dedication contributed to the contemporary expansion of opportunities for people with disabilities and to breaking down myths and stereotypes, furthering social and economic justice.

ANNIE OAKLEY

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Annie Oakley

Birth: 1860 -

Died In: Ohio, United States of America
Achievements: Arts
Worked In: Ohio, Louisiana
Countries Worked In: United States of America, England, France, Spain, Italy

Annie Oakley was probably the nation’s finest marksman.

Born in 1860, she was an outstanding Ohio woman who gave freely of her time, funds and energies to benefit other women. Oakley’s shooting skills were developed early in her life and when she was age 21 she met her future husband, shooting champion, Frank Butler by defeating him in a match. They toured as a team for some years before he retired to manage her career. She joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1885 and
performed as the star of that 19th century show for more than 16 years. She astonished Americans and royalty across England and Europe with her amazing skill. She was injured in a train accident in 1901 that ended her career with the Wild West. After she recovered she went on to shoot in charity events to help orphans, widows, and underprivileged women. She campaigned for women’s rights to hold paid employment, earn equal pay, participate in sports, and defend herself in her own home and on city streets.

EUGENIE NIBOYET

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Eugénie Niboyet

Born 10 September 1796
Montpellier
Died 6 January 1883 (age 87)
Paris
Nationality French
Other names Eugénie Niboyet
Occupation Writer, journalist, translator, and political activist
Spouse Paul Louis Niboyet
Children Jean Alexandre Paulin Niboyet

Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 10, 1796 – January 6, 1883) was a French author and early feminist. She is best known for founding La Voix des Femmes (The Women's Voice), the first feminist daily newspaper in France.
Eugenie Niboyet, named Eugenie Mouchon at birth, was born on September 11, 1796, in Montpellier, France.1 Eugenie wrote about her own family background in the last part of her literary work, The Real Book of Women [Le vrai livre des femmes2]: “I come from a literate family with origins from Geneva, Switzerland," she wrote before emphasizing the importance of her grandfather Pierre Mouchon, an erudite pastor in Geneva and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert. Only afterward did she mention her father, who came to France to study at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, and her mother by simply stating, "He married the daughter of a pastor from Gar," which indicated a Protestant origin. At the beginning of her book, Eugenie emphasized the importance of her family’s origins in Geneva, the importance of her father relative to new ideas from the French Revolution but also relative to moderation, and his "refusal of excess," which led to him having to take refuge in the Cevennes to avoid execution.
Eugenie had two sisters, Aline and Elisa, to whom she later wrote: "We do not write for the narrow minds who want to confine women to the household. Women no longer have to buy their freedom, but to exercise it."

Debut as a Female Writer
Arriving in Paris on November 4, 1829, she began to make a living as a writer. In 1830, she participated in a writing contest of Société de la morale chrétienne (The Society of Christian Morality). She focused on the theme of The blind and their education, her writing received favorable notices, and she ultimately shared the contest prize with M. Duffaut.
Debut of Women’s Journalism
With the Saint-Simonian proletarians, she was part of the group of women who participated in the first periodical written entirely by women: The Free Woman La Femme libre, created by Marie-Reine Guindorf and Desiree Veret.
Fourierism
Like the two founders and participants in the first issues of The Free Woman, she drew closer to the movement of the philosopher Charles Fourier, who presented the treatment of women as the truest measure of social progress. In particular, she went to meet with Flora Tristan.
Female Publisher
Back in Lyon in 1833, Eugenie founded the first feminist periodical outside the Paris region with a publication titled The Women's Advisor [Le Conseiller des femmes], a weekly without illustrations printed by Boitel, followed for a few months by The Lyon Mosaic [La Mosaïque Lyonnaise]. Then she participated in the creation of The Peace of Both Worlds [La Paix des deux mondes], and in 1834 of The Athenaeum of Women [L’Athénée des femmes].
In July 1836, back in Paris, Eugenie founded The Gazette of Women [La Gazette des Femmes] with the help of friends such as Charles Fredric Herbinot de Mauchamps. A sort of club, bringing together editors and subscribers, met to support and manage the newspaper, but also to discuss particular issues including the struggle for political and civil rights of women. Eugenie gathered many women during these weekly meetings on Thursdays at 27 Rue Lafite. There one could meet Flora Tristan, Hortense Allart, Anais Segalas and many other feminists.

Militant Feminist Politics
The revolution of 1848 gave new hope to feminism, including the lifting of restrictions on meetings, thereby allowing the development of groups that advocated for women's rights.

In March 1848, Eugenie Niboyet founded and ran a newspaper dealing only with women’s issues. The Voice of Women [La Voix des femmes], subtitled “a socialist and political newspaper representing all women’s interests,” was the first French feminist daily newspaper. Following the model of the club of The Gazette of Women [La Gazette des Femmes],

The Voice of Women soon joined a political club which included many feminists already involved with small pre-existing publications. Eugenie managed to assemble many women already involved in the feminist struggle such as Jeanne Deroin, Desiree Gay, Suzanne Voilquin, Elisa Lemonnier, and Anais Segalas, but also popular authors such as Gabrielle Soumet, Amelie Prai, and Adele Esquiros. This movement was no longer reserved only for women as men also contributed, such as Jean Mace and Paulin Niboyet, Eugenie’s son.
The club promoted a very large catalog of reforms favorable to women, as much in the domestic realm as in the political. Extending the right to vote to all men provoked a resounding initiative when, on April 6, The Voice of Women nominated the candidacy of George Sand to the French Constituent Assembly. Sand disavowed this initiative and harshly judged these women whom she claimed not to know. Satirical cartoonists lampooned Eugenie and the journalists of The Voice of Women. The brouhaha created by this matter was overwhelming, such that people turned against the promoters of this initiative, and the government decided to end women's clubs. On June 20, Eugenie Niboyet, discouraged and hurt, ceased publication of The Voice of Women, and the feminists dispersed to avoid repression.

End of Life
Eugenie Niboyet retired from public life and went into exile in Geneva, where she lived with difficulty doing translations of Charles Dickens and children's books published by Lydia Maria and Maria Edgeworth. Nevertheless, she took up the pen again after the "Paris Commune" to support requests for pardons of convicts.

In 1860, Eugenie Niboyet returned to France, where she published The True Book of Women [Le Vrai livre des femmes] in 1863.6 Her letters to Leon Richer, the editor of The Rights of Women [Le Droit des femmes], attest to the fact that she always remained interested in the feminist movement. In 1878, at the age of 82 years, she was honored at the feminist congress in Paris.

Eugenie Niboyet died in Paris on January 6, 1883.

ANTONIA NOVELLO MD

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Antonia Novello MD

Birth: 1944 -

Born In: Puerto Rico, United States of America
Achievements: Government, Science
Educated In: Puerto Rico, Michigan, District of Columbia, Maryland
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at San Juan, University of Michigan Medical Center, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Worked In: Virginia, Maryland, District
of Columbia, New York, Florida Countries Worked In: United States of America

The first woman and the first Hispanic to become the Surgeon General of the United States (1990-1993), Antonia Novello brought to her work a strong empathy for people without power in society and used her position to alleviate suffering, especially for women and children. Trained as a pediatric nephrologist and in public health, Novello became a clinical professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital in 1986, after working in private practice and later in the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1987 she was named coordinator for AIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and then Deputy Director. As Surgeon General, Dr. Novello was among the first to recognize the need to focus on women with AIDS and on neonatal transmission of HIV. She found new opportunities for Hisp anic/Latino
Americans to participate in health issues, convening national and regional meetings to discuss community health needs. She raised national awareness in the medical profession about the domestic violence epidemic in America, and worked to elevate public conciousness about underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Birth: 1906 -

Death: 2001
Achievements: Arts, Science

Anne Morrow Lindbergh first won literary acclaim when she was very young.

At her graduation from Smith College, she won the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize for the most original literary piece and the Elizabeth Montagu Prize for the best essay on women of the 18th Century. The novels, essays and diaries she later composed have been described as 'small works of art." In 1929, her life dramatically changed with her marriage to America's "last hero," aviator Charles A. Lindbergh. Throughout their marriage the legendary pair flew together constantly on goodwill tours and on business trips to explore transcontinental routes for commercial aviation. In the early 1930s, she became the first woman in the United States to obtain a glider pilot license.

In 1931, she received her private pilot's license. Later, they covered 30,000 miles over five continents. For her part in the expedition, Lindbergh received the United States Flag Association Cross of Honor. In 1934, she became the first woman to receive the National Geographic Society Hubbard Gold Medal, one of several awards won for her piloting and navigational skills. Throughout her aviation career, Lindbergh continued to write.

Her first book, North to the Orient, chronicled the couple's flight in a single engine airplane over uncharted routes through Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

Listen! The Wind documents their 30,000-mile survey of north and south Atlantic air routes.

In all, Lindbergh published 11 major works. Her 1955 essay, "Gift from the Sea," led the non-fiction bestseller list for many weeks, and a special anniversary edition was reissued 25 years later.

ANNE HUTCHINSON

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Anne Hutchinson

Birth: 1591 - Death: 1643
Born In: , England
Died In: New York, United States of America
Achievements: Humanities
Educated In:
Countries Educated In:
Schools Attended:
Worked In: Massachusetts
Countries Worked In: United States of America

"She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man," said Governor John Winthrop of religious pioneer Anne Hutchinson, whom he expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for her insistence on practicing religion as she chose, and on preaching herself. An √©migr√© from England who settled in the New World in 1634,

Anne Hutchinson came under fire from the colony elders when she began expounding her theology at meetings in her home.

She believed in a "covenant of grace," in which faith alone was enough to achieve salvation. Others disagreed, and when Winthrop became governor, Hutchinson was banished and excommunicated.

She moved with her family to the area of the country that became Rhode Island, and after her husband's death, she moved to Long Island, where in 1643 she and five of her six children were killed in an Indian attack. This advocate of freedom of religion, the right to free assembly and women's rights was honored in the naming of the Hutchinson River and the Hutchinson River Parkway.

ANNE DALLAS DUDLEY

2011-09-16T01:48:00.000-07:00

Anne Dallas Dudley

Birth: 1876 - Death: 1955
Born In: Tennessee, United States of America
Died In: Tennessee, United States of America
Achievements: Humanities
Educated In: Tennessee
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: Ward Seminary, Prince College
Worked In: Tennessee
Countries Worked In: United States of America

In the final years of the struggle to pass the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote, Anne Dudley was central to both the national campaign (serving as National Director) and the critical struggle in her home state of Tennessee, which was to become the 36th and final state to support women's suffrage, thus making the Amendment the law of the land. Dudley, a woman of elegance and high social standing, ignored the natural constraints of her position to speak out with great force and persuasion on behalf of suffrage. She viewed women's voting as "a matter of simple justice," and became the founder and first president of the Nashville Suffrage League, and president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association. In 1917 she was chosen Vice President of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, working closely with President Carrie Chapman Catt in planning the master strategies of the campaign that finally succeeded in 1920. Dudley became a vigorous and outspoken campaigner throughout the South, matching her speeches with articles for publication and work introducing legislation. Dudley became the first woman in Tennessee to make an open-air speech, given after she led a march of 2,000 women from downtown Nashville to Centennial Park -- the first suffrage parade in the South, in May 1914. She was also the first female associate of the Tennessee Democratic Committee, and the first female delegate-at-large of the National Democratic Convention in 1920. Throughout her life and political career, Dudley lived and modeled her conviction regarding women and the rights they were due: "This is a government of, by and for the people, and only the law denies that women are people!"

ANNIE JUMP CANNON

2011-09-16T01:46:00.000-07:00

Annie Jump Cannon

Birth: 1863 - Death: 1941
Born In: Delaware, United States of America
Died In: Massachusetts, United States of America
Achievements: Science
Educated In: Delaware, Massachusetts
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: Wilmington Conference Academy, Wellesley College, Radcliffe College
Worked In: Massachusetts
Countries Worked In: United States of America, Peru

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon perfected the universal system of stellar classification still in use today, and compiled the largest accumulation of astronomical information ever assembled by an individual - the Draper Catalog. Cannon was an assistant at the Harvard Observatory beginning in 1896, and working with Williamina Fleming, she undertook a continuation of the project of recording, classifying and cataloging all stars down to the ninth magnitude.

The resulting classification system by temperature was her concept, and was universally adopted. More than a quarter of a million stars were so classified, and published as The Draper Catalogue in nine volumes, from 1918 to 1924. Cannon became curator of astronomical photographs of the Observatory in 1911 and professor of astronomy in 1938.

She published the Draper Catalogue Extension in two volumes (1925 and 1949), with thousands more stars catalogued. These works were of enormous value to the science of astronomy, and forever secured Cannon's place in scientific history. Cannon was a women's suffrage advocate and a member of the National Women's Party.

ANTOINETTE BLACKWELL

2011-09-16T01:42:00.000-07:00

Antoinette Blackwell

Birth: 1825 - Death: 1921
Born In: New York, United States of America
Died In: New Jersey, United States of America
Achievements: Humanities
Educated In: New York, Ohio
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: Monroe County Academy, Oberlin College
Worked In: Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Countries Worked In: United States of America

As the first woman minister of a recognized denomination (Congregational), Antoinette Brown Blackwell worked throughout her life to validate women's public role by challenging traditional barriers that restricted them. Blackwell encountered traditional restraints on women's intellectual endeavors and social action when she was not permitted to participate in classroom discussions, attend graduation or be awarded a preacher's license when studying theology at Oberlin College in l850 (the institution later awarded her honorary master's and doctoral degrees). Following ordination, she served as a pastor in Wayne County, New York and later as a visiting pastor - serving as role model to other young women seeking a life's work in the ministry. Blackwell married and had seven children. Throughout her life, she engaged in philosophical and scientific studies, publishing eight books and many essays. Blackwell was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a leader in the women's rights movement. She was one of the few movement pioneers who lived long enough to cast her ballot in 1920 when the suffrage Amendment was enacted.

ANN BANCROFT

2011-09-16T01:40:00.000-07:00

Ann Bancroft
Birth: 1955 -

Born In: Minnesota, United States of America
Achievements: Education, Science
Educated In: Oregon
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: University of Oregon
Worked In: Minnesota
Countries Worked In: United States of America, Greenland, North Pole, South Pole (Antarctica), Canada

A lifelong athlete and educator whose love for the wilderness includes sharing it with others, Ann Bancroft is the first woman to travel across the ice to the North Pole (as the only female member of the Steger International Polar Expedition) in 1986. One of the world's most respected polar explorers, Bancroft also was the first woman to travel east to west across Greenland on skis, leading the first American women's team (1992). She was team leader of the AWE (American Women's Expedition), a group of four women to have skied over 600 miles pulling heavy sleds to the South Pole (1993). A teacher who triumphed over her own struggle with dyslexia, Bancroft also coached numerous sports. She is an instructor for Wilderness Inquiry, an organization that helps disabled and able-bodied individuals experience wilderness adventure. She has developed educational curricula for teachers from elementary school through college, in mathematics, science, geography, the environment and women in non-traditional roles. Bancroft is committed to and involved with numerous health concerns, including multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and those with learning disabilities. Bancroft has also worked as an active volunteer for women's health research, literacy efforts and the Special Olympics.

ANGELINA GRIMKE WELD

2011-09-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

Angelina Grimk Weld

Birth: 1805 - Death: 1879
Born In: South Carolina, United States of America
Died In: Massachusetts, United States of America
Achievements: Humanities
Educated In:
Countries Educated In:
Schools Attended:
Worked In: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey
Countries Worked In: United States of America

Sarah and Angelina Grimke eloquently fought the injustices of slavery, racism and sexism during the mid-19th century. As daughters of a prominent South Carolina judge and plantation owner, the Grimke sisters witnessed the suffering of slaves. Determined to speak out, they were eventually forced to move to the North, where they continued to appeal to northerners and southerners to work toward abolition.
They also urged white northerners to end racial discrimination.
The Grimke sisters were pioneering women. Among the first female abolitionists, they were the first women to speak publicly against slavery, an important political topic. Faced with criticism from clergy and others that they were threatening "the female character," they continued their crusade. In 1838, Angelina became the first woman to address a legislative body when she spoke to the Massachusetts State Legislature on women's rights and abolition. Active in the women's movement, they helped set the agenda later followed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and others, calling for equal educational opportunities and the vote. One historian said of Sarah's writings: "[They were] a milestone on the road to the Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls" and "central to the feminist writings in the decades that followed." Sarah was one of the first to compare the restrictions on women and slaves, writing that "woman has no political existence . . . . She is only counted like the slaves of the south, to swell the number of lawmakers." After the Civil War, they continued to champion the causes of equality and women's rights. Through their examples and their words, the Grimke sisters proved that women could affect the course of political events and have a far-reaching influence on society.

ALICE PAUL

2011-09-16T01:34:00.001-07:00

Alice Paul
Birth: 1885 - Death: 1977

While earning degrees in law and social work, Alice Paul studied in London and joined the radical British suffrage movement. She was jailed several times and returned in 1910 determined to put new life into the American woman's struggle for the ballot. The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the old organization of Anthony and Stanton, was still focused on state-by-state campaigns, but Alice Paul preferred to lobby Congress for an amendment to the Constitution. She worked first within the NAWSA and then in her own rival organizations. She soon demonstrated her political savvy, stealing the limelight at Woodrow Wilson's inauguration with a gigantic suffrage parade. When Wilson proved slow to aid the suffrage cause, Alice Paul adopted the British strategy of holding the party in power responsible. Her group, then called the Congressional Union, campaigned against Democrats in the states where women already voted. Alice Paul led them in militant tactics, including picketing the White House. After World War I broke out, tensions grew and the pickets were alternately threatened by hostile crowds and thrown in jail. Placed in solitary confinement in a psychopathic ward, Alice Paul was force-fed, but her spirit remained unbroken. In the 1920s her group, by then the National Woman's Party, set the agenda for feminism: the vote won, the next target would be an Equal Rights Amendment.

ALLIE B.LATIMER

2011-09-16T01:29:00.000-07:00

Allie B. Latimer

Birth: 1929 -
Born In: Pennsylvania, United States of America
Achievements:Government
Educated In:Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
Countries Educated In: United States of America
Schools Attended: Laboratory High School at Alabama State College, Barber-Scotia College, Hampton Institute,
Howard University School of Law, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, Howard University School of Divinity, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, Pennsylvania State University, American University, Federal Executive Institute
Worked In: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, North Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia
Countries Worked In: United States of America, China, Australia, Togo, Malawi

An attorney, civil rights activist and humanitarian, Allie B. Latimer has been active in legal, civic and religious activities throughout her lifetime. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Alabama, Latimer was the child of a school teacher and a builder. After graduating from high school, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). Latimer then volunteered for two years with the American Friends
Service Committee, performing work in prisons and mental institutions. She participated in the effort to desegregate the New Jersey State Hospital at Vineland and an effort to integrate a suburban community outside Philadelphia. Latimer later enrolled in Howard University School of Law and earned her Juris Doctor in 1953.

In 1958, she went on to earn a Master of Legal Letters degree from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, and earned both a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Howard
University School of Divinity. Latimer was instrumental in organizing Federally Employed Women (FEW) in 1968, and served as the organization’s founding president until 1969. The organization began as a grassroots effort with the major objective of equality of opportunity for all. To date, FEW has more than two hundred chapters nationwide. FEW’s many accomplishments and activities have impacted the federal workplace and contributed to improved working conditions for all.

In 1969, Latimer became an Ordained Elder at Northeastern Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. She has traveled to more than fifty countries to participate in various church related conferences.

In 1977, as a federal attorney, Latimer was the first African American and first woman to serve as General Counsel of a major federal agency as well as the first African American and first woman to attain the GS-18 salary level at the General Services Administration. Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) recognized Latimer as part of the ‘second wave of feminist pioneers.” She was also the recipient of the Ollie May Cooper Award, presented by the Washington Bar Association for a lifetime of legal humanitarianism and outstanding contributions to the legal profession.

ALICE HAMILTON

2011-09-16T01:26:00.000-07:00

Alice Hamilton

Birth: 1869 – Death: 1970
Achievements: Science

Alice Hamilton chose medicine because “as a doctor I could go anywhere I pleased – to far – off lands or to city slums – and be quite sure I could be of use anywhere.” She quickly discovered she felt more at home in the laboratory than at the bedside. Her first job, teaching pathology at Northwestern University, gave her the chance to realize her dream to live at Hull House.
There she came to know Jane Addams and other reformers who encouraged her to find a way to apply her scientific knowledge to social problems. Alice Hamilton began to investigate industrial diseases.
She saw cases of lead palsy and carbon monoxide gassing among workers in the area. Because they were Poles, Italians, or Blacks, their fate had passed unnoticed. Industries denied responsibility, and states had no workmen’s compensation laws. Dr. Hamilton conducted pioneering surveys of industrial disease, and found that European countries not only outdistanced the U.S. in research but also legislated sickness insurance programs.
She studied the poisons affecting workers in the lead, munitions, and copper industries, traveling the country and touring mines and factories, smelters and forges. Her reports were always meticulously fair and impartial .

In 1918 Alice Hamilton was appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine at the Harvard University Medical School. She was the first and for many years the only woman on the Harvard faculty.

Though she was treated shabbily, excluded from the faculty club and the commencement procession, her research continued to help promote safety in the American workplace.

ALTHEA GIBSON

2011-09-16T01:23:00.000-07:00

Althea Gibson

Birth: 1927 – Death: 2003
Born In: South Carolina, United States of America
Died In: New Jersey, United States of America
Achievements: Athletics
Educated In: North Carolina, Florida
Countries Educated In:United States of America
Schools Attended: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Worked In: New York, New Jersey, Missouri
Countries Worked In: United States of America, France, Australia, England

Widely regarded as one of the most talented athletes in the United States, Althea Gibson overcame extreme racism to break barriers in tennis and pave the way for talented athletes of all races to compete equally. Born in South Carolina, she moved to Harlem at the age of three. After being given a tennis racquet at the age of 13, Gibson displayed such talent that she was invited to become an honorary member of the elite Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. In 1942, at the age of 15,
Althea began playing in the American Tennis Association (ATA) and won the first tournament she ever entered. The ATA was a counterpart to the United States Lawn Tennis Association (now the USTA), which did not allow African American players to enter tournaments at the time.

In 1957, Gibson became the first African American to win the All-England Championships at Wimbledon and the U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, forever changing the face of tennis.

She repeated these feats in 1958. After retiring from tennis, Gibson went on to play professional golf, again smashing barriers by becoming the first African-American to earn her LPGA card. Althea Gibson’s tremendous feats continue to inspire generations of athletes from all races and walks of life

ALICE EVANS

2011-09-16T01:14:00.000-07:00

Alice Evans
Birth: 1881 – Death: 1975

Identified the organism causing undulant fever.

This discovery, one of the most medically important in the early 20th century, led to laws mandating milk pasteurization, saving countless lives in America and throughout the world.
Evans, one of the first woman scientists to hold a permanent appointment in the USDA Bureau of Animal Husbandry (she later worked at the National Institute of Health), initiated her studies of bacterial contamination of milk in 1910 and revealed her findings in 1917. Fierce opposition to her results developed but in the 1930s, milk pasteurization laws were enacted. Although she was herself infected with undulant fever in 1922, she worked throughout her life as a widely-respected scientist, serving as the first woman president of the American
Society of Bacteriologists. After retirement in 1945, Evans lectured frequently on female career development, emphasizing scientific careers.

ABIGAIL ADAMS

2011-09-16T01:06:00.001-07:00

Abigail Adams

Birth: 1744 – Death: 1818

Born In: Massachusetts, United States of America
Died In: Massachusetts, United States of America
Achievements: Humanities
Worked In: Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
Countries Worked In: United States of America

Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was more than a family helpmate. Insightful, witty, and intensely concerned with politics, she shared and shaped her husband John’s political thought and career.

Because of his service to the nation in war and diplomacy, they spent more than half their married life apart, but they communicated closely. In early 1776 she was caring for their four young children alone, but she wrote him to urge daring and boldness, quoting Shakespeare:

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” In her famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, Abigail Adams half jestingly proposed that women should claim their share of liberty. She objected specifically to the legal codes under which married women could not own property. But she was ahead of her time; later generations of women would have to struggle to change such laws.

“I never wanted your advice and assistance more in my life,” John Adams wrote to her earnestly after his election as the second president of the United States. Ironically, the reinforcement he gained from Abigail may have prevented him from developing the willingness to compromise. His unbending devotion to principle helped make him a one-term president.

FORMER ASTRONAUT LEADER OF VANDENBERG

2011-01-22T15:30:00.001-08:00

Former astronaut leads the way for Vandenberg
Posted: Jan 21, 2011 10:14 PM by Ariel Wesler - Source: KSBY News
Updated: Jan 21, 2011 10:14 PM

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A former astronaut is the first woman to land a job as the highest ranking officer there.

Major General Susan Helms was promoted to Lieutenant General this morning at a change of command ceremony on base. Helms took over command from Lieutenant General Larry James. She is the new leader of the 14th Air Force and Joint Function Component Command for Space at Vandenberg.

Sitting among her fellow officers, you would never know Lt. Gen. Susan Helms is an accomplished astronaut.

"She's an expert at conducting satellite operations both from the ground and from being on board satellites. You don't get any more in depth knowledge than that," said General Kevin Chilton with U.S. Strategic Command.

elms has built an extensive and impressive career with Air Force as a former astronaut. She was the first U.S. military woman in space and has logged more than 200 days in space. She also holds the world record for longest spacewalk at eight hours and 56 minutes.

Flags were exchanged this morning signaling the change of command. For Lieutenant General Larry James, it was an emotional day. He's been the commander since December 2008. He will be leaving to serve at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

"It truly has been my honor to be part of this team for the last two years. It just doesn't get any better than this. . .Susan Helms, you're an awesomely lucky lady," James said.

"I will do my very to ensure your confidence is well placed and that the extraordinary integrity and performance of the command will sustain as we continue to execute our mission, face our challenges, and take care of our people," Helms said.

People ready to welcome a skilled leader.

Helms can also add one more item to her long list of accomplishments. She is one of two peopled named to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame this year. She will be inducted in May at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In her most recent position, Helms served as the Director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

REMEMBERING SIMONE COUSTEAU

2010-09-06T14:26:00.000-07:00

Jacques Yves Cousteau spend most of his life in the sea, not happy with inventing the equipment use by scuba divers today, he traveled the world aboard the Calypso, to teach humans about the great oceans.

Many of us grew up among his images, we were catched his " sea fever" pretending to be Calypso's scuba divers, we knew his adventures and we followed his dives.

But few of us knew about the day when the Calypso was almost lost in a storm.

It was the end of the 1940's, not a easy time for Europe. The second world war had left France in ruins. Jacques Cousteau, a young navy officer decided to buy helped by friends an old boat and name it " Calypso" and among some diver friends, start a big adventure, filming ocean dives and getting to know the ocean floor.

All his savings, plus selling his home and all his hopes were placed in this old boat.

They set course for the Red Sea where they were going to film his first movie.

They anchored the ship next to the coast of Egypt and all the men went into the water; in the ship only remained the wife of Cousteau, Simone.

While the divers were under the water, dark clouds arrived , the surface of the sea curled, and a strong wind began to blow. The divers could not return to the ship, so they swam towards the coast. Once there they contemplated the Calypso shaking with every blow of the waves, pulling the end of the anchor chain that would break inevitably.

Cousteau was afraid for his wife, a thin woman who did not have any idea of ships not of navigation. The divers, powerless were fearing that the break of the anchor would see all their illusions sinking with the old ship.

The chain broke in a dry explosion, and immediately they listened the engine of the ship that had started, it was changing direction to port and was penetrating in the sea straight ahead towards the thunderstorm.

To the rudder Simone Cousteau was, and she did not seem to be ready to allow the storm to sink the Calypso. Since she did not known anything about seamanship, she decided to go inside, where the boat might not collide with anything.

She was travelling towards the thunderstorm. Eight hours the struggle lasted between the old minesweeper and the sea, eight hours where a woman, who had never been in a ship, was extracting forces of nothing to prevent the dream of her husband from sinking that day.

When the thunderstorm ended, she took the ship towards the coast that was seen at the distance, but since it could not hold it up and it already had no anchor, simply she allowed it to float adrift with the subdued engine, hoping that the divers, who were looking at the maneuver from ground, should approach by swimming.

On coming aboard they found one smiling Simone who, to their surprise, received them with warm coffee. Many years passed, and the old minesweeper turned into one of the oceanográfic ships more famous of the world, sailed all the seas and visited all the ports.

Cousteau acquired international reputation.

In 1980, in an interview, a journalist asked him if it was difficult to command the Calypso, Cousteau answered: " Not, if Simone is on board, she is the cook, the mother of thirty sailors, which advises, which finishes the fights, who tells us to shave, which challenges us, which our best critical one, caresses us, the hairdresser on board, our first admirer, who saves the ship of the thunderstorms. It is the smile every morning and the greeting before going to sleep. The Calypso might have lived without me ... but not without Simone "

A woman who lived between cameras and it did not allowed them to photograph her, did not appear in any of the encyclopedias of the Calypso, refused to be seen in the movies, and the majority of the people never saw her face.

Our homage to Simone Cousteau... and to all these women who work from the silence and whom are valued...

ISABEL BRAZILIAN PRINCESS

2010-08-08T18:37:00.000-07:00

Isabel,

Brazilian Princess
circa 1883
The Thereza Christina Maria Collection consists of 21,742 photographs assembled by Emperor Pedro II and left by him to the National Library of Brazil. The collection covers a vast range of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and the Brazilian people in the 19th century, as well as includes many photographs from Europe, Africa, and North America. This photograph shows Princess Isabel, the daughter of Pedro II and, until the abolition of the monarchy in 1889, the heir to the Brazilian throne. It was taken by Joaquim José Insley Pacheco (1830-1912), one of the most celebrated Brazilian portrait photographers of the day. Pacheco was born in Portugal and immigrated to Brazil as a young man. Between 1849 and 1851, he worked in New York, where he studied with photographers Jeremiah Gurney and Mathew Brady. Returning to Brazil, he opened a studio in Rio de Janeiro. In 1855 he received the title of Photographer to the Imperial House. His best known subjects included members of the royal family, political personalities, and members of the Brazilian aristocracy. He was also a painter and draftsman, and made technical contributions to the development of photography.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI

2010-04-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi listens to reporters' questions after the signing of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act.

BARBARA RIVEROS GANA PRUEBA DEL MUNDIAL DE TRIATLON

2010-04-11T10:26:00.000-07:00

La chilena se impuso en Sydney en 2 horas, 4 minutos y 19 segundos.

Domingo 11 de Abril de 2010 06:31

MADRID.-Bárbara Riveros se ha convertido este domingo en la primera iberoamericana que gana una prueba de un Mundial de Triatlón, tras imponerse hoy en la de Sydney.La española Ainhoa Murua ocupó la 32ª plaza, informa la Federación Española.Riveros, de 22 años, se ha impuesto al esprint a la neozelandesa Andrea Hewitt y a la australiana Emma Moffatt, dos de las principales favoritas.Riveros completó los 1,5 kms. de natación en el Puerto de Sydney, los 40 kms. de ciclismo y los 10 kms. de carrera a pie en 2 horas, 4 minutos y 19 segundos.

"Cuando me he visto en cabeza en la última vuelta a pie, me he puesto muy nerviosa,” ha declarado la vencedora al acabar la prueba inaugural del Dextro Energy-Campeonato del Mundo."Normalmente no soy muy buena en el esprint final, pero hoy todo ha salido muy bien,” añadió.

IRENA SENDLER

2010-03-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the WarsawGhetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an 'ulterior motive' ...

She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.)

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..)

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises..

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.

Most had been gassed.

Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ...

She was not selected.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

2010-03-13T21:38:00.000-08:00

United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speak during a meeting of the commission on

The Status of Women.

The event titled Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All, was held at the UN

headquarters in New York in connection with International Women's Day

THE DUGGARS

2009-12-14T10:05:00.000-08:00

All in the familyArkansas couple Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar are the proud parents of 19 children. In October 2009, they became grandparents for the first time when eldest son Josh and his wife Anna had their first baby.
With 10 boys and nine girls, incredibly, all of Michelle and Jim Bob's kids have J-names.

KAIANE ALDORINO MISS WORLD 2009

2009-12-14T09:52:00.001-08:00

Gibraltar's Kaiane Aldorino reacts after winning the Miss World pageant in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI,

2009-12-14T09:51:00.000-08:00

DANICA PATRICK

2009-12-14T00:07:00.000-08:00

Indy Car Driver Danica Patrick, checks her new GoDaddy.com # 7 JR Motorsport car

NANCY PELOSI

2009-12-09T09:43:00.001-08:00

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts as she takes the podium for the first time after she was elected the first ever female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on the first day of the 110th Congress in Washington January 4, 2007.

REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)

PROTESTING THE WAR

2009-12-09T09:41:00.001-08:00

Alicia Casilio, dressed as an Iraqi civilian, stands silently at an anti-Iraq war protest in Boston, Massachusetts January 11, 2007. The numbers on Casilio's face represent the estimated number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war.REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES)

HOPE GONE TOO SOON

2009-12-09T09:21:00.000-08:00

Benazir Bhutto prays as she arrives in Karachi October 18, 2007. Bhutto ended eight years of self-exile on Thursday, returning to Karachi where more than 100,000 supporters poured onto the city's streets to welcome her home. She was assasinated weeks later...

AMAZONIAN STRUGLE

2009-12-09T09:14:00.001-08:00

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE (BRAZIL)

RED AMONG WHITE

2009-12-09T08:47:00.000-08:00

Muslims women attend prayers on the eve of the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, East Java August 31, 2008. Muslims around the world congregate for special evening prayers called "Tarawih" during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

FREE FACING THE SUN

2009-12-09T08:32:00.001-08:00

A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution centre in central Kabul November 14, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered all women hidden behind head-to-toe burqas.

PEACE VS WAR

2009-12-09T08:08:00.000-08:00

A Ukrainian woman places carnations onto the shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev November 24, 2004. Ukraine's authorities raised the stakes in a face-off with their liberal opposition on Wednesday as they prepared to announce the results of a disputed election that are likely to infuriate thousands of protesters in the streets.REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

HAPPY TIMES

2009-12-03T10:27:00.001-08:00

2005: High tea
Young ladies attending a 10-girl tea party jump on a trampoline before tucking into drinks and snacks July 9 in Donnellson, Iowa.
Judy Felt throws the annual party in her princess-friendly back yard.

2003: This could become a habit
Sister Rosa Elena, right, hits Sister Amanda de Jesus with a snowball after class Jan. 22 at Mount St. Michael's Seminary in Spokane, Wash. The two nuns, visiting from Mexico, said it was the first time they had ever seen snow.

SAD TIMES

2009-12-03T10:05:00.000-08:00

2007: Mourning slain soldier-fiancé
Mary McHugh visits the grave of her fiancé, Sgt. James Regan, in Section 60, the newest portion of Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, D.C., on May 27. Regan, a U.S. Army Ranger, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in February.

2006: Resisting West Bank evacuation
A Jewish settler struggles with Israeli security officers as authorities evacuate the Amona settlement in the West Bank on Feb. 1. Thousands of troops clashed with hundreds of settlers after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes in the illegal settlement.

2004: Tsunami's devastation
A woman mourns Dec. 28 in Cuddalore, India, over the death of a relative in a tsunami that struck around the Indian Ocean two days before. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered massive waves, killing more than 200,000 and dislocating millions in one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.

1999: On the march
An ethnic Albanian woman feeds her baby as she and 2,000 more Kosovo refugees walk along a muddy track after they were allowed to enter Macedonia on March 30. The refugees were fleeing one of a series of violent ethnic conflicts fought in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s and 2001.

Chechen woman from Grozny looks through a bus window while crossing the Chechen-Ingush border from Chechnya on Jan. 10, not far from the Ingush village of Sleptsovskaya, a haven for refugees fleeing the fighting between Russian troops and Chechen rebels. Large-scale fighting would not end until 2009.

2002: Afghanistan's scars
Mohboba, 7, with ointment applied to her face for a skin ailment called leishmaniasis, stands against a bullet-pocked wall waiting to be treated at a health clinic March 1 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The parasitic disease plagues many poverty-stricken children in Afghanistan.

FUTURE ASTRONOMERS

2009-11-28T21:34:00.000-08:00

Students in India, use a telescope to see a total eclipse of the sun

SHE SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL

2009-11-23T09:44:00.000-08:00

FALL IS HERE

2009-11-22T21:31:00.001-08:00

DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS

2009-11-17T08:30:00.000-08:00

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders perform at Cowboys Stadium on November 1, 2009 in Arlington, Texas.

CHEERLEADERS

2009-11-17T08:26:00.002-08:00

A Dolphin cheerleader performs as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Miami Dolphins at Land Shark Stadium on November 15, 2009 in Miami Gardens, Florida.

WNBA

2009-11-17T08:26:00.001-08:00

Wild, Wild West finals
Candace Parker (below) of the Los Angeles Sparks hits the floor against Phoenix Mercury player Penny Taylor in Game 1 of the WNBA's Western Conference Finals on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

NORCECA VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

2009-11-17T08:24:00.001-08:00

A show of hands
Puerto Rico's Aury Cruz, right, lofts the ball over Dominican Republic's Annerys Vargas and Bethania de la Cruz during the gold medal match at the NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, on Sunday.

NEW WORLD RECORD

2009-11-17T08:22:00.001-08:00

Sky-flake
Female skydivers -- 181 in all, from 31 countries -- join together to set a new women’s formation skydiving world record in Perris, Calif. on Saturday. The women raised more than $900,000 for the fight against breast cancer, the most in the event’s history. The week-long event was organized to raise funds for City of Hope’s breast cancer research.

ELENA KALISKA

2009-11-17T08:15:00.001-08:00

Water world
Elena Erza Kaliska of Slovakia competes in the Women's Kayak K1 during the 2009 Charlotte Open on Friday in Charlotte, N.C.

VENUS WILLIAMS

2009-11-17T08:13:00.000-08:00

Reaching out
Venus Williams plays a forehand in her first round match against Vera Dushevina of Russia during the China Open in Beijing on Saturday.

BOXERS

2009-11-17T08:11:00.000-08:00

Don't mess with them
Flyweight boxers Susi Kentikian, right, dubbed the 'Killer Queen', and Julia Sahin fight during their WBA and WIBF bout in Rostock, Germany on Sunday. Kentikian won the fight.

AT ANY AGE

2009-11-17T08:10:00.001-08:00

Making the most of your shot
A competitor competes in the womens shot put during the Sydney World Masters Games on Sunday in Sydney, Australia.

I'LL NEVER RETURN

2009-11-06T16:59:00.000-08:00

Meena (1956-1987)RAWA's martyred founder

Afghan Women ResistOccupation and Fundamentalism

Translation of a part of a poem by Meena a Afghanistan social activist killed in Pakistan by fundamentalists

I’LL NEVER RETURN

I'm the woman who has awoken
I've arisen and become a tempest
through the ashes of my burnt children
I've arisen from the rivulets of my brother's blood
My nation's wrath has empowered me
My ruined and burnt villages fill me with hatred against the enemy
Oh compatriot, no longer regard me weak and incapable,
My voice has mingled with thousands of arisen women
My fists are clenched with fists of thousands compatriots
To break all these sufferings all these fetters of slavery.
I'm the woman who has awoken,
I've found my path and will never return.

GLADYS MARIN R.I.P

2009-06-07T19:33:00.001-07:00

LADY MAPUCHE

2009-06-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

INCA PRINCESS

2009-05-20T17:58:00.000-07:00

500 year old mummy of Inca Princess

LITTLE GIRLS

2009-05-20T17:54:00.000-07:00

SOUTH AMERICANS GIRLS

2009-05-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

ASIAN

2009-05-20T15:19:00.000-07:00

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Kham-Woman-With-Prayer-Wheel-Around-Barkhov-Lhasa-China-

Teen-Punk-Harajuku-Tokyo-Japan

Pilgrim-Spinning-a-Prayer-Wheel-at-the-Memorial-Chorten-Thimphu-Bhutan-

Tokushima-Ao-Odori-Dancers-Holiday-Festival-Nagoya-City-Gifu-Prefecture-Honshu-Island-Japan

NATIVES OF EARTH

2009-05-20T14:38:00.000-07:00

Papua-New-Guinean-Port-Moresby-Cultural-Festival-Port-Moresby-Central-Papua-New-Guinea

Ndebele-Woman-Wearing-Beads-South-Africa

Zulu woman

By Guido Boggiani, caduveo, 1896-1901

YULIA TIMOSHENKO

2009-03-30T10:42:00.000-07:00

November 27th, 1960. Yulia Tymoshenko was born in Dnepropetrovsk.
After leaving the school in 1979, she joined the economic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk State University to study cybernetic engineering.
In 1979, while studying there, she married Oleksandr Tymoshenko and her daughter Eugenia was born in 1980.
In 1984 Yulia Tymoshenko was graduated from the University with an honor degree. As any young specialist, she got an assignment (the usual practice in the USSR days) to work as an economy engineer at the machine-building plant in Dnepropetrovsk.
The end of Eighties, the beginning of Nineties was the era when so-called "cooperative enterprises" has started, the blueprints for modern business structures. For the young people the newly opened possibilities became the first step to the business of their own. In 1988 Yulia and her husband Oleksandr opened a public service enterprise, a video-renting shop, started with 5.000 of Soviet roubles they borrowed. The profits made from this first venture were used to open the video rentals chain.
From 1989 till 1991 Yulia Tymoshenko worked as the business manager of the "Terminal" youth center of Dnepropetrovsk.
In 1991 she became the managing director of the "Ukrainian Oil" corporation (UOC). All the funds available (including bank credits) UOC has directed to purchasing of oil products. It was the most important business trend for the society: 1991 saw the collapsing of the huge state and economic structure. It was the year of monstrous inflation and the near-instantaneous demise of the Ukrainian agriculture.
The "Ukrainian Oil" Corporation has laid the foundation for the new company, "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" (UESU).
In 1995 Yulia Tymoshenko became the president of UESU. Shortly after, the Corporation devised a new model of supplying the Ukrainian industry with energy sources. The economic was struggling without access to the cash flow as result of the last currency reform and inflation. Factories became victims of the lack of experience in market management. In this situation, UESU undertook the mission of trading, with Russia mostly, the major source of energy resources in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The money were directed to the factories, while the corporation kept some as the payment for its services. Thus, the circulating capital was brought to the domestic economy and it was used to revitalize the production and to pay wages. Meantime, UESU was trading with Russia, delivering metals, pipes and other products of Ukrainian heavy industry in exchange for gas and oil.
By 1997 the multi-billion debts of Ukraine to Russia for the natural gas were fully liquidated due to the UESU’s activity. Ukraine has renewed its international economic relations in the spheres of machinery-building, house-building and pipes production, doubling the Ukrainian export to Russia.
Thus, the development of the UESU corporation got to that level when business outgrows itself, becoming the major political factor. The usual scenario was launched that is still popular today: the corporation leaders were sued for the debt of $ 42 millions to "Ukrgasprom", the Revenue and Tax police arrested the Corporation’s accounts and the Supreme Court of Arbitration fined UESU on more than $ 300 millions after having it accused of the currency legislation infringement.
It was the hard blow for the "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" which the public and the mass media alike called "the pre-ordered persecution". The UESU was one of the top five most powerful business structures on the territory of CIS at the time.
The succession of events left only two choices for Yulia Tymoshenko: to stay in the big business and be engaged in confrontation with the state officials or to become a politician and fight for the independence of business from authority and for the state liberalization.
In the end of 1996 Yulia Tymoshenko was nominated for the parliamentary election. She got 92,3% of votes in the majority constituency of the Kirovograd region.
In 1997 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first deputy chief of the "Gromada" party.
Since 1998 she was working as the chairman of the strategic committee on budgeting of the Parliament. During this period, Yulia Tymoshenko has developed projects for the Budget and Tax codes, new systems of pension and medical provision, mechanics of clearing off pensions and salaries. In addition, under her guidance, the Budget committee devised the "100 weeks to the proper life" program.
In 1998 Yulia Tymoshenko becomes the deputy of the Parliament for the second time and again heads the Budget committee. She authors the advanced system of interbudgetary relations and optimization of the Ukraine’s social programs, while leading the development of bills for the Tax and Social codes and also for the Pension reform.
Still in 1998, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has rewarded Yulia Tymoshenko with the Order of St. Varvara in recognition of her outstanding services for the country.
In 1999 Yulia Tymoshenko became the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivschina" ("Fatherland") party. Meanwhile, she successfully upholds a thesis named "The State Regulation of the Taxation System", receiving PhD in economics. Still, it was not the end of her scholar activity: Yulia Tymoshenko wrote more than 50 works on different scientific themes.
In December of 1999 the united energy system of Ukraine suffered from the catastrophic lack of fuel supplies. This situation was not helped by the continuing payment crisis, and the President Leonid Kuchma was forced to agree to the proposal of bringing Yulia Tymoshenko to the government led by Viktor Yuschenko.
On the December 30, 1999 Yulia Tymoshenko occupies the post of vice-Premier Minister responsible of the country's fuel and energy issues. In the same period Yulia Tymoshenko developed "Ukraine’s energy" concept and the anti-corruption program "Clear Energy", which both aimed to end the corruption and the dominant influence of criminal groups on the Ukraine’s fuel and energetic complex. When the energy market was stabilized she developed a new program, "The Coal of Ukraine". Supported by Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, she exposed and promulgated a number of "shadow" schemes of capital export from the energy sector.
Naturally, such actions were not applauded by the corrupt officials. Their reaction was quick and ruthless.
In August, 2000 Alexander Tymoshenko and the managing director of the UESU Corporation Valery Falkovich were detained and placed under arrest. One year later the Court announced these arrests as an unlawful acts.
On the January 19, 2001 Yulia Tymoshenko was dismissed from the post of vice-Premier Minister.
On the 13th of February, 2001 she was arrested on the charges brought by the General Prosecutor’s office. The experts and the general public considered it as a violent punishment of all the democratic movement. In March these charges were ruled unsubstantiated by the Court in Kiev and the arrest sanctions were called off.
In September 2001, during the International Economic Forum in Krynitsa Gurskaya (Poland), Yulia Tymoshenko was nominated for the honorary title of "The Person of the Year in Central-Eastern Europe", being the only woman in the list. Exactly 4 years later, in September 2005, European experts will appreciate the true level of Yulia Tymoshenko’s activity as the Prime Minister of Ukraine awarding her with the title.
In 2001, the disappearance of journalist Georgy Gongadze has caused the huge political scandal searing through the country. The opposition claimed that the President Leonid Kuchma and other authority figures of the highest rank are involved in disappearance and death of the journalist. The ill-famous "cassette scandal" followed. Then the action "Ukraine Without Kuchma" has begun. The tense political situation resulted in Yulia Tymoshenko’s initiative to create "National Rescue Forum" (NRF) aiming to initiate the impeachment and to discharge the Kuchma’s criminal regime. NRF with its members of "Fatherland" party, Republican party of Ukraine, Conservative Republican party of Ukraine, "Sobor", Social-Democratic party of Ukraine, Christian Democratic party of Ukraine and Patriotic party was the long-awaited unity of the various opposition movements.
In November of 2001 the member parties of NRF made a decision to rename "National Rescue Forum" as the "Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc". Leading it, Yulia Tymoshenko enters the Parliament elections in March of 2000. As a result, the Bloc gets over 20 chairs in Ukrainian Parliament and forms the faction of its own.
The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc did continue its oppositional activity after the elections were over. Namely, it raises an initiative to create the alternative Parliament of national trust and the "shadow" Cabinet of Ministers. In September of 2002 Yulia Tymoshenko, among other opposition leaders, heads all-Ukraine action of protest "Rise, Ukraine!", the first massive movement of resistance, empowering the protest demonstrations.
In 2004 the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc announced a coalition "Power of the People" with the Victor Yuschenko’s "Our Ukraine" bloc to support Yuschenko during the presidential elections in October.
November of 2004. The second round of presidential elections caused the massive protest actions in Ukraine due to the cynical falsification of the elections’ results. They became known to the entire world as the "Orange revolution" led by Yulia Tymoshenko as one of its heads. On December 3rd of 2004 the Supreme Court of Ukraine ruled that these results (according to which Victor Yanukovich, suppoted by the authorities, was to became the President of Ukraine) were declared invalid and the date of new elections was set. On October 26 Ukraine voted in the third time under the whole world’s attention and Viktor Yuschenko became the winner.
On February 4, 2005 the President Viktor Yuschenko presents Yulia Tymoshenko as the perspective Prime Minister to the Parliament. The new record was set: 373 members of Parliament voted in support of her and she became the head of the Government.
One of the most resonating achievements of Yulia Tymoshenko’s government was the return of the metallurgical plant "Kryvorizhstal" (which was sold dirt-cheap before) to the state and its following honest privatization. According Yulia Tymoshenko, it was merely the beginning of the process of "stripping oligarchs of their power". In addition, the Cabinet that was led by Yulia Tymoshenko increased the social payments and pensions while keeping the inflation low.
The profits part of the state budget was increased by 70% without raising the taxes. Besides, the equal terms for business enterprises were created and the single system of taxation was formed without any corruption influencing it. For the purpose of the increase of competition the customs duty was reduced, and so on. More than 5.000 of the legal acts that were giving additional power to the officials, creating the ideal environment to the corruption were rescinded by Yulia Tymoshenko as the Prime Minister.
In July of 2005 the trustworthy American magazine Forbes named Yulia Tymoshenko the 3rd of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.
Meantime the President’s cronies did provoke a political crisis in the country. In September 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko’s team leaves the government, but continues to work on the perspective projects of the Ukraine’s development.
It is remarkable that simultaneously with resignation from the post of a head of Ukrainian government Yulia Tymoshenko obtains the recognition in Europe: namely, the "Person of the Year in Central-Eastern Europe" reward that was given to her by the forum in Krynitsa Gurskaya (Poland).
On November 18, 2005 the Supreme Court of Ukraine finally restores justice by withdrawing all the criminal cases and prosecutions against Yulia Tymoshenko, members of her family and her colleagues, which were initiated by the authorities of the old regime with the purpose to discredit herself and her associates.
In December of 2005, during the 2nd annual session of Euro Mediterranean Forum in Monaco, Yulia Tymoshenko received another international award, Prix de la Foundation, for her "outstanding leader qualities, the economic achievements and the anti-corruption policy of her Cabinet and for her struggle against the treats to democracy arising in the modern world".
December 7th, 2005. The interparty congress of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc took place in Kiev. During this congress she presented solidarism as the Bloc’s new ideological base to enter the Parliament elections of 2006.
During the elections campaign, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc practically rejects the TV advertising, while other competitors overcrowd the TV schedule. The Bloc’s leaders chose to visit the regions instead, to meet people face-to-face.
During three months, Yulia Tymoshenko took a part in more than four hundreds of the crowded meetings in the town squares and in the factories of the hundreds of Ukraine’s cities, towns and villages. She met with 4,5 millions of people there, travelling for a distance of 80 thousand of kilometers (which is comparable to two round-the-world tours). The overall length of her speeches on these meetings, along with the TV and radio appearances, is approximately equal to month.
Realizing that the Parliament elections of 2006 fundamentally differ from all the previous rounds (because the Parliament majority chosen will form the future government), Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc called upon all the political forces to name their candidates for the Prime Minister seat (which is the general practice in the European countries) for the people to see the persons they give their votes to. Nevertheless, Yulia Tymoshenko stood as the only candidate who was named.
Anyway, with the elections date approaching, the three political forces that were standing together during the Orange revolution of 2004 (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, “Our Ukraine” Bloc and the Socialist party of Ukraine) achieved the preliminary agreement to form the Democratic coalition in the new Parliament. It was approved that one force of the three with the mightiest support of the voters will have the right to nominate its candidate for the Prime Minister post.
The elections of March 26th, 2006 emerged with the following totals: Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc got 22,29% of votes, winning the elections in the half of Ukraine’s regions and in its capital Kiev. Second result (of the “Orange” forces) was achieved by the “Our Ukraine” with 13,95% of votes and third place was won by the Socialist party with its 5,69%. Together, these three democratic forces got the opportunity to compile the parliamentary majority with 243 of the deputy mandates.
Yulia Tymoshenko urged the politics to create the Democratic coalition as soon as possible and to form a government in order to finally offer the people results that were awaited for the few years now.

SISTERS UNITE, CLEAN AND REFOREST!!

2009-03-16T14:57:00.000-07:00

When I was a teen, I remember lying down on the white sand, under the shade of the ancient pine trees, looking at the blue ocean.

The place was called " Lover's Beach" in the central coast of Chile.

That was 35 years ago.

Today, most of the pine trees are gone, the beach is overused and the ocean is in danger from the oil tankers passing by daily.

I sent a call for help via the internet and these four sisters responded.

They had only two things in common, their love of nature and responding to my call.

So they got together, bought ice plants, garden utensils, gloves, shovels and they met by the beach on a hot December day ( Southern Hemisphere) and spent the day, clearing weeds, cleaning rubbish, and reforesting the eroded hillside.

They are my heroines and I wanted to share their effort with all of you!!

MARIA ALEXANDROVA

2009-02-08T22:27:00.000-08:00

ALICIA ALONSO

2009-02-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

KATIA GARZA

2009-02-08T22:18:00.000-08:00

CYNTHIA HARVEY

2009-02-08T21:52:00.000-08:00

MAYA PLISETSKAYA

2009-02-08T21:26:00.000-08:00

NATALIA MAKAROVA

2009-02-08T21:10:00.000-08:00

ALESSANDRA FERRI

2009-02-08T21:04:00.000-08:00

POLINA SEMINOVA

2009-02-08T21:01:00.000-08:00

OLGA CHENCHIKOVA

2009-02-08T21:00:00.000-08:00

THE AWESOME ADVENTURES OF PASKKI IN COSTA RICA

2009-02-04T00:50:00.001-08:00

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

MY BRAVE FRIEND CARY CONRADY SKYDIVING~!!!!

2009-01-28T16:39:00.000-08:00

CON LAS ALAS DEL ALMA

2008-11-28T17:13:00.000-08:00

Autora: Eladia Blázquez (24 de febrero de 1931 - † 31 de agosto de 2005,

Avellaneda, Argentina) fue una cantante y compositora argentina de Tango, considerada como la poetisa de dicho género, supo conquistar el cariño de la gente con su arte y su coherencia. ...

ANN DUNWOODY FIRST WOMAN FOUR STAR GENERAL

2008-11-14T23:28:00.000-08:00

A 33-year Army veteran today became the first woman in US history to be named a four-star general, Ann Dunwoody, 55, will oversee Army Materiel Command, which outfits and equips soldiers. A 33-year Army veteran today became the first woman in US history to be named a four-star general.

"The Army nurtured me and mentored me, and today the Army offers me the chance to return the favor," she said. .

"There is no one more suprised than I," said Dunwoody, who initially planned on a two-year Army stint, then a career as a gym teacher.

Congratulated by her husband

Instead, "she is recognized as one of the foremost military logisticians in her generation," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates. She will oversee 133,000 personnel around the world

SISTERS ARE....

2008-11-11T23:12:00.000-08:00

Time pases....

Life pases....

Distance separates us.....

Children grow up..

Jobs come and go..........

Love waxes and wanes.........

Men don't do what they're supposed to do.....

Heart break....

Parents die.....

Colleagues forgent favors...

Careers end....

But sisters are there, no matter how much time and how many miles are between you.

A girlfriend is never farther away than needing her can reach.

When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life will be on the valley's rim, cheering you on, praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley's end.

Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk beside you...

Or come in and carry you out.

Girlfriends...daughters... granddaughters

Daughters-in-law...sisters...sisters-in-law...Mothers... Grandmothers...aunties...nieces...cousins...and extended
family...all bless our life!

The world wouldn't be the same without women, and neither would I.

When we began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead.

Nor did we know how much we would need each other.

Every day, we need each other still.

There are more than twenty angels in this world.

Ten are peacefully sleeping on clouds.

Nine are playing.

And one is reading her email at this moment.

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

2008-10-10T16:04:00.001-07:00

ASK YOUR TV STATIONS WHY WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE THE BIGGEST RALLY IN ALASKA?

2008-09-20T00:11:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 19, 2008

The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.
So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery.

"Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally" was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage.

Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men.

I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee.
It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee.
It's probably an impressive list.
These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.
One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host.
Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought.
The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive.
I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies.
Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good.
A real statement will have been made.
I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk.
When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep!
I could hardly find a place to park.
I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.
The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).
This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.
I was absolutely stunned.
The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.
And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.
This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up.
He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard.
Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math?
Yes.
The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage!
Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.

COLOMBIAN

2008-09-17T10:55:00.001-07:00

MAPUCHE INDIAN WOMEN PROTEST IN CHILE

2008-09-11T10:59:00.000-07:00

Several Mapuche native women jumped into a fountain in front of the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile.

They were protesting the jail sentencing of Patricia Troncoso another Mapuche activist, who is in her 104 day of a hunger strike.

She has been accused of "terrorist acts" due to setting fire at a ranch in the south of Chile.

Six of the Mapuche women were arrested by police.

WOMEN IN SPACE

2008-09-07T23:41:00.001-07:00

HARD WORKING WOMEN

2008-09-07T22:06:00.000-07:00

OLD POSTER

2008-09-07T09:05:00.001-07:00

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

2008-09-06T22:40:00.000-07:00

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers;
they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.
(Lucy Burns) And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
(Dora Lewis) They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail.
Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. (Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited.
She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. http://memory.loc.gov/amen/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.puff
So, refresh my memory.
Some women won't vote this year because- -why, exactly?
We have carpool duties?
We have to get to work?
Our vote doesn't matter?
It's raining?
Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say.
I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.
All these years later, voter registration is still my passion.
But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote.
Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
Sometimes it was inconvenient.
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too.
When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry.
She was with herself.
'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote?
All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but
those of us who did seek to learn.'
The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'
HBO released the movie on video and DVD .
I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather.
I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized.
And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.
The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

PALIN: WRONG WOMAN, WRONG MESSAGE

2008-09-06T21:39:00.000-07:00

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.
We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote.
We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won't work.
This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman.
It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.
It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that.
It's about baking a new pie.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters.
Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton.
Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does.
To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs.
"This is not to beat up on Palin.
I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me.
I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father.
I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.
Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know.
When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?"
When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident.
Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax.
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence.
The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.
So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain.
He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom.
If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.
McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality.
She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling.
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity.
As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself.
She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town.
She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child.
She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child.
So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family.
Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband.
Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.
And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.
This could be huge.
Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center.
She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.

WOMEN IN MOURNING FOR THE KILLINGS OF WOMEN IN CIUDAD JUAREZ

2008-08-24T16:50:00.000-07:00

REMEMBERING

2008-08-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

WOMEN'S CIRCLE OF LIGHT

2008-08-23T19:10:00.000-07:00

" My woman's heart is sprayed with the sweet healing nectar that the Cosmic Mother delivers to me.
In this moment I am a part of the Sacred Circle of women of Light, and together with my sisters, I activate my spiritual force, to radiate affectionate energy through my hands and my conscience.
I ask you Cosmic Mother to bless my hands and the hands of my sisters in the whole world, to be able to channel here and now your healing light towards Mother Earth.
I ask you Divine Mother to do of us an instrument of your peace.
I ask you Divine Mother to do of us an instrument of your Light.
I ask you Divine Mother to do of us an instrument of your Love.
Help us to wake up as Sacred Women, warriors of Love, defenders of Life.
Accompanied by the spiritual Force of all my sisters I wrap the Earth in an Intensely violet Light and I heal her of all her wounds.
I liberate in this moment her pain and suffering and I wrap the Earth in a serene pink light, filling with loving vibration every corner of this planet.
The power of my pregnant womb joins the power of the pregnant wombs of my sisters, and between all we form a sacred circle of protection for Mother Earth.

Being together and conscious of our feminine unified power, our Love is a concrete weapon, more powerful than any weapon of war.
I open in my current circumstances channels towards the Divine Grace.

I promise To be a Guard of Mother Nature, loving and taking care of everything what the Goddess has created on Earth.
I promise to keep this prayer alive day by day, strengthening the Women's Circle of Light.
Through my daily acts I commit myself toto sow Love in the Earth. "

Carolina Pantoja, Chilean

SANDY ALLEN DIES

2008-08-19T16:47:00.000-07:00

SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Sandy Allen, the world's tallest woman has died in an Indiana nursing home where she had lived for a decade. She was 53.
Allen spent much of her life trying to teach the public about being different, the Indianapolis Star reported. Her height -- 7 feet, 7 inches -- was a result of a tumor on her pituitary gland.
"She always accepted her position in life as God put her here for some reason," said John Kleiman, who was both a friend and her former agent. "She was going to do what she could to live that."
Another friend, Rita Rose, said that Allen, who reached 6 feet at age 10, did not fit in when she was in high school.
When the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as the world's tallest woman, Allen became a public figure, appearing on talk shows and even in a Federico Fellini movie. But her height was also inconvenient and caused health problems.
Goliath Casket, which specializes in outsize coffins, told The Muncie Star Press that Allen's coffin was pre-ordered three years ago.

CARMEN LAZO DIES AT 87

2008-08-19T15:46:00.000-07:00

SANTIAGO, CHILE.-

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to attend memorial service for Carmen Lazo this afternoon
The remains of the former Socialist party Member of Parliament will be taken to the former Congress Building at approximately noon today.
According sources from the presidential palace, President Michelle Bachelet will attend a memorial service this afternoon for the former Socialist deputy Carmen Lazo, who died unexpectedly at the Santiago airport yesterday.
“Carmen died coming home from what she always did, a political activity, travelling, getting off a plane, and up until the very last minute, at 87 years of age, (she was) still there”, stated the President.
According to the President, the vitality of the former deputy is an example of “the strength, the value and the enthusiasm of our elderly”.
Meanwhile, the remains of the former Member of Parliament will be taken to the former Congress building at approximately noon today for her memorial service. Carmen Lazo passed away on Monday night at the Santiago Airport, where she was arriving from a trip to La Serena.
Lazo suffered heart failure following a cardio-respiratory attack.

CHINA

2008-08-19T08:15:00.000-07:00

OLYMPIC WOMEN

2008-08-15T23:29:00.001-07:00

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=GY2H-BJ-SD21-081508-111002

AGAINST AIDS

2008-07-23T16:22:00.000-07:00

U.N. RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS WAR TACTIC

2008-07-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

United Nations Security Council resolution on rape as a war tactic: an analysis by Rights & Democracy
On June 19, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war and a threat to international security. The crucial issue now is whether this resolution will actually contribute to international efforts to end sexual violence committed against women in the context of war.
Rights & Democracy, which has been at the forefront of international efforts to see sexual violence recognized as a weapon of war, believes the Security Council resolution is an important step toward this goal for the following reasons:
Acts of sexual violence committed before and after a war are now part of peace and security issues that could be brought before the Security Council;
The resolution allows the Security Council to intervene in situations where the extent or level of sexual violence requires such intervention;
The resolution excludes crimes of sexual violence from amnesty accords as part of peace negotiations and underlines the importance of ending impunity for such crimes;
Requests that the United Nations Secretary-General submit a report to the Security Council by June 30, 2009, on the application of the resolution in conjunction with situations of war brought before the Security Council.
Rights & Democracy will be monitoring the implementation of this resolution closely, especially in the context of its ongoing work on sexual violence in Burma and the Rights & Democracy-coordinated Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situation’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Established in 1996, the Coalition works to:
(…) ensure that crimes committed against women in conflict situations are adequately examined and prosecuted. The main focus of the Coalition’s work is to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.