Grant livelihood to the poor woman, a film to expose the families who abandon their daughters to pay off its debt, or rebuild the lives of girls served as soldiers or prostitutes since childhood.
These are women who work Eoffrn leadership to bring about change in troubled communities around the world. They are women who received awards estimated global leadership from the Vital Voices Organization (Vital Voices), which operates in more than 140 countries to help women in the promotion of democracy and increase economic opportunities and protection of human rights.
Said president of Vital Voices, Alice Nelson, the nine women Awardees in 2012 may curved communities driving right at the right time.
Nelson emphasized that "those totalitarian, and the rush for a just cause, and that the ability to cross the lines usually, those capabilities are exactly what the world needs to heal."
Nelson spoke in June 5 at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, the day before the winners received Joaúizen at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Studied winning Samar Mona Khan Pakistani jurisdiction of anthropology, but they have become documentary filmmaker to expose rural customs that violate women's rights.
And told Khan audience at the Institute of Peace as "I realized that if you took these documentaries to communities, to rural areas, and used as a tool to create awareness and dialogue, it would help in fact break the silence on issues that do not talk about it usually openly or Honestly. "
Know the habits of giving girls to repay debt or to settle conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the word "bracelet", and practiced these habits in public since many generations. Thanks to the film somewhat Khan, Pakistani MPs voted in 2004 to eliminate this practice.
Khan has also produced documentaries on human trafficking, child labor and the importance of local girls' education.
In Liberia, handed over 2000 soldier from young girls their arms to the peacekeepers of the United Nations at the end of the civil war lasted 14 years. The nurse Rosanna hard and later became an activist, helped in the rehabilitation of these young soldiers, some of them were only 7 years old when subjected kidnapped by the rebel army.
Arduous said that "it is their use as wives, sex slaves, and were also young mothers." It was founded a non-profit organization called "humanitarian organization touching that need to be compassionate" (Think You) to assist in addressing the problems of post-war Liberia.
Provided this organization a wide range of services to assist in the reintegration of former child soldiers into normal life, including shelter and medical care, counseling, education and life skills training.
The struggle to earn a basic living in the small island of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean is one day a big challenge to make young people leave their homes and move to other places to work. Wanted Adamaemalaga Taffonaa stop that session of immigration in such a way that people in the village of income generation for a better education, and caring for their families.
The key to the solution to this problem identification and cultivation of products that not only flourish in tropical climate, building organized Taffonaa for business promotion to help people in the village to find the largest markets for goods, such as coconut oil and noni juice. Samoans established what Taffonaa calls "a great relationship" really with The Body Shop, a company based in the UK and specializes in skin and beauty care products and Finery made from natural ingredients.
Taffonaa told an audience Institute of Peace, "The quantities that they need to continue to grow, and we need to look more outside Samoa, and this is what we are doing now and we are trying to establish relationships with other small countries in the Pacific."
Taffonaa confirmed that the company develop the skills of women in the business has been successful in Samoa, because it was founded by people who understand the culture of Samoa, and were willing to listen to the villagers. In many cases, she said, heading business of goodwill to small states and expect to accelerate development using methods inappropriate may have succeeded in other places, but not between population groups small isolated living in Pacific Island nations.
The organization also honors Vital Voices Women have played a role in the different countries that have experienced the Arab Spring movement 2011. Known human rights lawyer, Libyan Salwa Bgguez long record in defense of political prisoners, and was one of the organizers of the demonstrations in the city of Benghazi, which has been a driving force that ultimately led to the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
She remembered that she was standing among a crowd of people in a demonstration in the first few days of protests and heard that a young man had been killed at the hands of Gaddafi's forces near the place where they stand. Said Bgguez: "At that time, turning the situation of protests to the revolution. You do not feel fear in you. But you are going to want to finish the task. "
The is Bgguez a member of the National Transitional Council in Libya, but resigned after a few months in protest at what they considered the lack of women in the new government.
Honored as the "Vital Voices" leadership efforts of several other women are:
Ruth Zavaleta Salgado, a political Mexican, Shatha Harazi, a journalist Yemeni, Manal al-Sharif, a women's rights activist from Saudi Arabia, Marianne Nagy Hanna Ibrahim, a pro-Egyptian human rights and social peace, and Princess Yahyaoui, a blog and advocating for more freedom expression in her native Tunisia.
