Women Peacemakers Poster
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Women Peacemakers – A Global Selection ! James W. Gould1, PhD; Linn Gould2, MS, MPH; Steven G. Gilbert3, PhD, DABT; Elizabeth A. Gould, MLIS! 1Scripps College, Claremont, CA; 2Just Health Action, Seattle, WA; 3Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders, Seattle, WA ! For more information or to download a free copy, and its interactive (clickable) at www.womeninpeace.org! North Great Northern Southern ! South Eastern East ! Middle Central! Britain/ Oceania! ! & South America! Europe! Europe! Asia ! Europe! Asia! East ! Africa Ireland! America! Maria Chapman born Emmeline Pankhurst born Bertha von Suttner born Marie-Olympe de Gouges Vida Goldstein born Sarojini Naidu born India Helena Blavatsky born Michi Kawai born Japan Felicia Langer born Poland Olive Schreiner born S. Berta Lutz born Brazil Aug Weymouth, MA July 25, Manchester, England July Prague June 9, 1843. born France May 7, 1748. Australia April 13, 1869. Feb 13, 1879. Nonviolent Ukraine Aug 12, 1831. July 29, 1877. Dec 9, 1930. Human rights Africa March 24, 1855. 2, 1894. Leader of Brazilian 1806. Co-founded world’s 15, 1858. ! Founded ! Revolutionary ! Feminist politician;! activist for Indian ! Founder of ! Internationalist; ! activist; Israeli attorney who ! Environmentalist, writer. suffrage and equality first nonviolent ! Radical suffragist ! Austrian Peace ! Declaration ! opposed militarism, independence; ! Theosophy, a phil-! pacifist; president! defended ! Close friend of ! movements;! society 1838; ! whose direct ! Society 1891;! of the Rights ! conscription, ! politician; poet;! osophy of universal ! of Japan Peace ! Palestinian clients. Gandhi;! One of four ! Editor abolitionist ! action inspired ! First female to ! of Women, 1791.! nuclear arms. ! Known as "The ! brotherhood ! Society; “The ! Received Right ! nonviolence ! women to sign ! journal The ! Gandhi; mother of ! win Nobel Peace ! Executed by ! Founding member of Nightingale ! 1875; profoundly! greatest woman leader in Livelihood Award,! advocate; ! UN Charter, ! Non-Resistant.! three suffragists daughters.! Prize, 1905.! guillotine, 1793.! WILPF*. ! of India”.! influenced Gandhi.! Japan”.! 1990.! opposed WW I.! 1945. ! Jane Addams born Sept 6, Emmeline Pethick-! Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin Eleanor May Moore born Anasuya Sarabhai Rosa Luxemburg born Wu Yi-Fang born China Jan Nawal El Saadawi born Nadine Gordimer born S. Minerva Bernardino born 1860. Quaker-raised. Lawrence born England born Netherlands Feb 9, born Geneva, Switzerland Australia March 10, 1875. “Motaben” born Nov 11, Poland March 5, 1871. ! 26, 1893. Biologist; Egypt Oct 27, 1931. Africa Nov 20, 1923. Seibo, Dominican Republic Principal founder ! Oct 21, 1867. ! 1854. First Dutch! May 24, 1826. ! Pacifist and anti-nuclear 1885. Feminist; Gandhian Anti-militarist ! diplomat. First ! Psychiatrist;! Awarded Nobel ! May 7, 1907. ! of Women's ! Founding ! woman to became Pioneer Swiss ! advocate ; WILPF ! labor organizer;! revolutionary; ! female university! feminist; North-! Literature Prize,! 1945: One of ! International ! Member of ! physician; ! feminist; pacifist; ! leader; author ! Fabian Socialist. ! opposed WW I.! president in China,! South Prize, ! 1991; early ! four women ! League for Peace & WILPF*; ! radical pacifist;! co-founder of ! of “The Quest for ! Founded Textile ! Marxist critic of ! 1928-52; one of ! 2004; tented in! opponent ! to sign ! Freedom (WILPF );! opposed WW I.! helped organize ! international ! Peace”, 1949;! Labour ! Soviet bureaucracy;! four women to ! Tahrir Square, ! of Apartheid; ! UN Charter, ! Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.! WILPF*.! women's peace society.! Opposed WW I.! Association, 1920. ! murdered 1919.! sign UN Charter, 1945.! 2011.! Writer, books banned.! 1945. ! Emily Greene Balch born Virginia Woolf ! Alva Myrdal born Sweden Maria Montessori born Italy Te Puea Herangi born New Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Alexandra Kollontai born Marii Hasegawa born near Hanan Ashrawi born Fatima Meer born S. Africa Janet Rosenberg Jagan Jamaica Plain, MA Jan 8, born London ! Jan 31, 1902. Founded Aug 31, 1870. Pioneer in Zealand Nov 9,! Pandit born India Aug 18, Russia March 31, 1872. Hiroshima, Japan Sept 17, Ramallah, Palestine Oct 8, ! Aug 12, 1928. Anti- born Chicago, IL Oct 20, 1867. Called the ! Jan 25, 1882. " Stockholm International! peace research ! 1883. Maori ! 1900. Gandhian ! Soviet diplomat; credited 1918. Peace ! 1946. Palestinian peace ! apartheid activist;! 1920. First ! “Improper ! Wrote feminist ! Peace Research ! and pedagogy; ! Pacifist leader; ! nonviolent ! with ending ! activist; called ! negotiator;! leader and writer, ! female ! Bostonian”; ! pacifist ! Institute, 1966; ! lifelong pacifist;! Opposed Maori ! resister. First ! Winter War ! “Gentle Woman ! poet; ! Mandela biography,! president of ! WILPF* leader;! classic –! Shared Nobel ! antiwar and ! Wars; leader of ! woman president ! with Finland, ! of a Dangerous ! diplomat; ! Reestablished ! Guyana;! awarded Nobel ! Three ! Peace Prize, ! militarism activist.! nonviolent resistance to of UN General ! 1940; opposed ! Kind”; awarded! professor.! Gandhi's Phoenix Awarded ! Peace Prize, 1946.! Guineas, 1938.! 1982. ! conscription in WW I.! Assembly, 1953. ! World War I.! Niwano Peace Prize, 1996.! Settlement, 1979. ! Gandhi Peace Prize, 1997.! Virginia Gildersleeve born Kathleen Lonsdale born Sophie Scholl born Magda Grilli Trocmé born Alice Wedega born Papua Anuradha Koirala born Rosika Schwimmer born Carmel Budiardjo born Shirin Ebadi born Iran June Ellen Johnson Sirleaf born Estela Barnes De Carlotto Oct 3, 1877. ! Ireland Jan 28, ! Forchtenberg, Bavaria May Italy Nov 2, 1901. French New Guinea Aug 20, 1905. Okhaldhunga, Nepal April Budapest Sept 11, 1877. London June 18, 1925. 21, 1947. Human & children Liberia Oct 29, 1938. ! born Argentina Oct 22, Historian; dean ! 1903. Physicist; ! 9, 1921. Leader ! nonviolent ! Peacemaker ! 14, 1949. ! Hungarian ! Human rights ! rights activist and ! Led campaign to end civil 1930. Received UN ! of Barnard ! Quaker.! of White Rose ! activist whose ! at home and in! Founded ! Internationalist; ! Activist. Founded ! crusader for ! war and violence ! Human Rights ! College; founder ! President of ! nonviolent ! efforts helped" N. Ireland; first ! Maiti (Mother's ! pacifist; World ! TAPOL; Received! justice. Awarded ! against women; ! Award, 2003; ! of UN and ! WILPF* and! resistance to ! save 3,000 ! woman legislator; home) to rescue ! Peace Prize, ! Right Livelihood ! Nobel Peace ! shared Nobel ! president of ! UNESCO; drafted ! Pugwash ! Hitler (executed ! Jews during! conscientious ! girls / victims of! 1937; Nobel Peace! Award, 1995.! Prize, 2003. ! Peace Prize, ! Grandmothers ! Preamble of UN Charter.! Conference.! by guillotine 1943). ! WW II.! objector.! sex trafficking, 1993. ! Prize nominee, 1947. ! 2011. ! of the Plaza de Mayo. Jeannette Rankin born Peggy Duff born England Hildegard Goss-Mayr born Simone de Beauvoir born Helen Caldicott born Radhika Coomaraswamy Emmy Arnold born Riga, Sadako Ogata born Tokyo Roza Otunbayeva born Wangari Muta Maathai Rosario Green Macias! June 11, 1880. ! Feb 8, 1910. Peace Vienna, Austria Jan 22, Paris, France Jan 9, 1908. ! Australia Aug 7, 1938. born Sri Lanka Sept 17, Latvia Dec 25, 1884. ! Sept 16, 1927. 10 years UN USSR (now Kyrgyzstan) born Kenya April 1, 1940. Born Mexico City, March 31, Lifelong pacifist;! organizer;! 1930. Nonviolence! Feminist; existentialist ! Physician; led ! Sept 17,1953.! Founder ! Refugee Commissioner. ! Aug 23, 1950. ! Founded Green Belt 1941. Diplomat and" first woman ! helped ! activist; honorary ! Philosopher. ! international ! Human rights ! of nonviolent ! Received Ramon ! Professor ! Movement ! economist. First ! elected to US ! establish CND! president of ! Led opposition ! opposition to ! expert; UN Special ! Bruderhof ! Magsaysay ! of Philosophy;! dedicated to ! woman foreign ! Congress, 1916.! (Campaign ! International ! to wars in ! nuclear tests; ! Envoy on children in war; Community, ! Award,1997; ! leader of Kyrgyz! planting trees; ! minister; UN ! Voted against both World for Nuclear ! Fellowship of ! Algeria & ! Women's Action ! UN Rapporteur on Violence 1920.! Indira Gandhi ! Tulip Revolution! Awarded Nobel ! Assistant ! Wars.! Disarmament), 1957.! Reconciliation.! Vietnam.! for Nuclear Disarmament ! against Women, 1994-2003.! Prize, 2001. ! 2005.! Peace Prize, 2004. ! Secretary Gen.! Eleanor Roosevelt ! Betty Williams born Gro Harlem Brundtland Simone Weil born France Amelia Rokotuivuna born Irene Khan born Dhaka, Mother Teresa of Calcutta Leticia Ramos-Shahani Lisa Halaby aka Queen Jenni Williams born Bianca Jagger born born Oct 11, 1884.! Belfast, N. Ireland May 22, born Norway April 20, 1939. ! Feb 3, 1909. Philosopher Fiji Aug 7, 1941. Feminist; ! Bangladesh Dec 24, 1956. born Albania Aug 26, 1910. born Philippines Sept 30, Noor of Jordan born Zimbabwe April 1, 1962. ! Nicaragua May 2, 1945. Drafter of UN ! 1943. Co-! Three times prime ! and social ! fought for ! Human rights ! Catholic nun;! 1929. Diplomat. UN Washington DC Aug 23, Founded women's! Human rights ! Human Rights ! founded the ! minister of ! activist; ! peace, justice ! activist. Secretary ! awarded First ! Assistant Secretary! 1951. Led effort to! advocacy org ! activist ! Declaration; ! Community for! Norway (1981, ! advocate of ! and equality; ! General of ! Templeton ! General for Social abolishing nuclear ! WOZA (Women of! Inspired by! chair of UN ! Peace People; ! 1986-89, 1990-96); 1982 nonviolence; ! protested for