————————————– Update: Joan Hinton died on June 8 2010 at a hospital in Beijing. She was 88. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/science/12hinton.html?_r=0 ————————————– “As long as there is war, science will never be free. Are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton, who was […]
————————————————– 10 years later: In late August, we visited Yin YuZhen’s Ecological Park in Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia and made a short video on her current life. Yin Yuzhen is a simple peasant woman, from Uxin Banner in the Mu-Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. Since 1985, she has planted, together with her husband, 300,000 trees, thus creating […]
—————————————- Update: Shahjahan apa, passed away on 28 September 2013 in an accident while on her way to the mahila panchayat (an innovative collective approach for community participation in dispute redressal). http://petticoatjournal.com/sto-ries/tribute-shahjahan-apa-was-a-prominent-face-of-the-1970s-feminism/ —————————————- “My daughter was killed by my in-laws. I could not get justice. Yet I had faith in Allah’s rehmat […]
After 10 years: The indefinite hunger-strike of Irom Sharmila against the AFSPA Will complete its 15th year soon The state impunity on violence against our own people continues till date Irom Sharmila, since she was a teenager has been demanding removal of armed forces from India’s North-East for last 15 years. The country […]
——————————- Updates: Nirmala Deshpande was a member of the The Rajya Sabha or Council of States, the upper house of the Parliament of India, when died in her sleep in the early hours of May 1, 2008, in New Delhi at the age of 79. Like her whole life, where she fought for harmony […]
——————————– Update: Asma Jahangir In May 2005, Jahangir helped to organise a symbolic mixed-gender marathon in Lahore to raise awareness about violence against sports women by religious extremists. Islamist groups armed with firearms, batons and Molotov cocktails violently opposed the event and Jahangir was publicly beaten, stripped and detained by the police. More recently, […]
———————————————- Update Savitri MacCuish 24 February 2016-02-25 World Peace Flame has gone from strength to strength over the last ten years, under the leadership of Savitri MacCuish. Her particular success has been the enthusiasm with which the World Peace Flame educational packs have been taken up by schools all around the world. This […]
—————————– After 10 years: Rebecca Gomperts studied medicine and visual arts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After her studies she became an abortion provider and sailed as a ships doctor and environmental activist on board the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. While sailing in South America she met many women who greatly suffered due to lack of […]
————————- Update: Bolivians have paid tribute to Domitila Barrios de Chungara, long-time social activist, union leader, feminist, revolutionary, and national heroine who died March 13 2012 in Cochabamba at the age of 74. https://nacla.org/blog/2012/3/15/remembering-domitila-making-bolivian-history ————————- I want to leave future generations the only valid inheritance: a free country and social justice. Let me speak […]
————————————– After 10 years: During the last ten years, Shirin Banu continued relentlessly to work with women from the local communities, helping to organize people at local level. She is involved in many NGOs. But, despite holding a leading position at PRIP Trust and being one of the former freedom fighters, Shirin […]
