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Power Women Fighting For Women's Issues
Power Women Fighting For Women's Issues
We always keep our eyes on the toppers, no one bothers to know who helped them to climb the ladder or who is behind the show. The Power Women list honors women who've reached the top. But what of those who have made it their mission to make power accessible to other women?
Here i try to bring those names in the light who have made their mission
to empower the other women. Mention here just few amazing women out of so many.
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| Molly Melching |
1. Molly Melching
is the founder and executive director of Tostan (meaning "breakthrough" in the Wolof language), a Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) whose mission it is to empower African communities for
sustainable development and social transformation in the respect of
human rights.
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| Melanee Verveer |
2. Melanee Verveer
Melanne Verveer is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Vital
Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit that supports
emerging women leaders in building vibrant democracies and strong
economies. click here for more
| Somaly Mam |
3. Somaly Mam
Somaly Mam is the recipient of the First Roland Berger Human Dignity Award.
Universally recognized as a visionary for her courage, dignity,
ingenuity, and resilience, Somaly was honored as one of Time Magazine's
100 Most Influential People of 2009 and was featured as a CNN Hero. click here for more.
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| Catherine Hamlin |
4. Catherine Hamlin
Catherine Hamlin, an Australian ob-gyn who has spent her career in
Ethiopia caring for women with obstetric fistulas and revolutionized
fistula. If you want to know more about Catherine, click here.
5. Sakena Yacoobi
Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan woman who educates girls in her country and struggles to improve health care there.
Professor Sakena Yacoobi co founded CHI and is
President and Executive Director of the Afghan
Institute of Learning (AIL). Yacoobi founded AIL in 1995 to provide teacher training to Afghan women,
to support education for boys and girls, and to provide health education to
women and children. Click here for more.
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| Zainab Salbi |
6. Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi immigrant who started Women for Women
International and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of women's
rights.Zainab Salbi is the founder of Women for Women International and
served
as the organization's CEO from 1993 to 2011. She is the author of two
books.
This click will tell you more about zainab. |
| Esther Duflo |
7. Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo, a French economist at MIT who has had a vast impact on the study of global poverty – and of the women who endure it. 2009 MacArthur fellow Esther Duflo is pushing the field of development economics by studying specific causal relationships that lead to or perpetuate poverty. She looks at close-to-home issues: household behavior, education, access to finance and health. Esther Duflo takes economics out of the lab and into the field to discover the causes of poverty and means to eradicate it. |
| Roshaneh Zafar |
8. Roshaneh Zafar
Roshaneh Zafar, who started a leading micro finance organization in Pakistan, empowering women and boosting their opportunities. Ms. Roshaneh Zafar is the Founder and Managing Director of Kashf Foundation, Chair of Kashf Holdings and Founder of Kashf Microfinance Bank Limited based in Pakistan.Ms. Zafar is also the founding member of the Pakistan Microfinance Network and sits on the board of several NGOs and networks, including Women’s World Banking, Pakistan Microfinance Network and Kaarvan Crafts. for moreclick here.
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| Helen Gayle |
9. Helen Gayle
Helene Gayle, who heads CARE and before that was a leading light in the global fight against AIDS. Helene Gayle, who heads CARE and before that was a leading light in the global fight against AIDS.
Dr. Helene Gayle is president and CEO of CARE USA, a humanitarian organization with more than 10,000 on-staff. In 2010 alone, their 905 poverty-fighting campaigns in 87 countries reached 82 million people, more than half of whom are women. One of Dr. Gayle's biggest priorities at CARE is in empowering girls and women to bring lasting change to poor communities.
Who Killed Farida Afridi?
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| Farida Afridi, Co- founder of Women's Group in Pakistan |
Who Killed Farida Afridi?:(
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the killing of Farida Afridi, a social worker.
In a meeting held on Thursday, HRCP said:
“It is a matter of grave concern that the risks facing human rights defenders and those working to ameliorate the lot of marginalised segments remain very high across the country. HRCP is utterly shocked at the targeted killing of Farida Afridi, whose only crime was working for the uplift of women in an area where they need such help the most.
Farida, together with her sister, Noorzia Afridi, co-founded SAWERA. At a young age, the sisters chose to devote their lives to promoting women's empowerment and peace in the tribal regions of Pakistan. Despite this, that we should help them or praise them, our society do no give them the right to stay alive.
Our hearts go out to Noorzia and their parents, family and friends. We hope they get at least some comfort in knowing that Farida has already helped many, in her short life.
This incident once again highlight the level of brutalisation that Pakistani society has reached.
To read more about Afridi Sisters please click here.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, 1944 - 'Founding Father' of Pakistan said;
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you; we are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
Pakistan is now trying to rebuild the education system in its northwest areas.
Ray of hope for female students
Pakistan rebuilds its education network in northwest areas
The Annual Status of Education report, published in February this year, said that nearly 60% of school-age children can't read. Girls fare
the worst. Another report, by the Pakistan Education Task Force in 2011, showed
that Pakistan is second in the global ranking of out-of-school children.
One in three rural women have never attended school.
Education in Pakistan is chronically underfunded. And the Taliban
continues to strike in other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. There
are no official figures but estimates suggest more than 800 schools
have been destroyed in north-west Pakistan. Only in Swat, the Taliban destroyed more than 400 of the 1,576 schools and the Seventy percent of them were girls' schools. We must thankful to some really brave women who knock themself out to rebuild the education system in their area specially for women while the conditions are too hard for them.
Maryam Bibi is one of those brave women, founder of the NGO Khwendo Kor,( which has been working for girls' education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province since 1993.) said ; "We talk about equality and women's rights and welfare at the policy level, but what is the strategy, especially for poor girls living in remote areas? We must educate these girls.
Gul-e-Khandana another courageous woman from Swat, she is a head teacher in Government Primary School Swat is not an ordinary teacher - she stood up to the Taliban and managed to save the school where she had taught for more than 20 years. She still shivers with fear when she recalls the invasion of taliban.
She said; "Above all, girls must be educated," she says. "When one girl is educated, she educates her entire household. The role of women is very important in our society – it is they who can change our way of life for the better."
There are so many like them who still working for the education and specially for girls because they believe that with education we can change the world, specially an educated girl is the best source to educate a whole family. In the light of these great efforts now we hope that things will be better because Pakistan Rebuilds Its Education Network.
Please feel free to send your suggestions and ideas about the rebuilding or rejuvenating our education system and specially women education.
Maryam Bibi is one of those brave women, founder of the NGO Khwendo Kor,( which has been working for girls' education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province since 1993.) said ; "We talk about equality and women's rights and welfare at the policy level, but what is the strategy, especially for poor girls living in remote areas? We must educate these girls.
Gul-e-Khandana another courageous woman from Swat, she is a head teacher in Government Primary School Swat is not an ordinary teacher - she stood up to the Taliban and managed to save the school where she had taught for more than 20 years. She still shivers with fear when she recalls the invasion of taliban.
She said; "Above all, girls must be educated," she says. "When one girl is educated, she educates her entire household. The role of women is very important in our society – it is they who can change our way of life for the better."
There are so many like them who still working for the education and specially for girls because they believe that with education we can change the world, specially an educated girl is the best source to educate a whole family. In the light of these great efforts now we hope that things will be better because Pakistan Rebuilds Its Education Network.
Please feel free to send your suggestions and ideas about the rebuilding or rejuvenating our education system and specially women education.
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