After a colleague was detained for inappropriate dress, Amal and her colleagues created the “No to Women’s Oppression Initiative,” which opposes Public Order Laws and argues that they are imposed to subjugate and assault women. In July 2017, she was convicted of “obstructing a police officer from doing his job” because of her reporting, and was fined 10,000 Sudanese pounds or to serve four months in prison. Enjoy the top 1 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Ginetta Sagan. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968 Be the change you want to see in the world. Submissions for 2020 are not yet open; please visit this page again for updates.Journalist and activist Amal Khalifa Habbani has promoted equality and justice for women in Sudan throughout her carrer. https://www.amnestyusa.org/about-us/grants-and-awards/ginetta-sagan-award She is personally responsible for the release of 6000 political prisoners in Vietnam as well as prisoners in Czechoslovakia, Latin America, Poland and South Africa. In 2001 Ms. Sharma was granted political asylum in the United States, where she works with refugee families.Malika Abubakarova is a lawyer from Chechnya who founded the NGO “Women’s Rights” in Grozny, one of few NGOs in all of Russia to focus on the legal protection of women and children. In 1999, she founded the Women’s Safe House, the first shelter for women in Montenegro. Ms. Mohamed is the founder of the Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development (GECPD). He was brutally beaten and heartlessly murdered; and his murder is still wrapped in silence. Ms. Akongo’s special concern is the support – physically, emotionally and spiritually – of the girls who have escaped and come to GUSCO from the bush, especially those who are pregnant or with children.Adriana Portillo-Bartow has paid dearly for her political commitment, first when she was forced to flee from El Salvador to Guatemala and then when her father, stepmother, sister, sister-in-law, and two daughters, then aged nine and eleven, “disappeared” in 1981. Aug 8, 2014 - Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor. As repression and discrimination against women has steadily increased in her region, Malika has helped hundreds of women assert their rights in court. - Dr. Apr 16, 2012 - Ginetta Sagan was a vital part of the expansion of Amnesty International around the world. birthdate: June 1 birthplace: Milan, Italy . In 2013, she joined “The Elders,” a group of statespeople, peace builders, and human rights activists brought together by Nelson Mandela.A Kurdish teacher from Diyarbakir in Eastern Turkey, Ms. Akkoc responded to her own experience of political and sexual abuse, including the murder of her husband and her arrest and torture, by founding the organization Ka-Mer (Women’s Center) to advance women’s rights in southeast Anatolia, Turkey. She is currently appealing this sentence.Former child soldiers, children who have been seized, tortured, and forced at gunpoint to become rebels in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, have become the life’s work of Helen Akongo, who worked with GUSCO, the Gulu Support the Children Organization. She has been an undeniable force in improving her community’s health and well-being through providing resources like health information, referral services, a domestic violence shelter, and transitional housing. The shelter serves as the focal point of service delivery and advocacy work for women who are victims of family violence and human trafficking. Ms. Mohamed continues her work as the Executive director of GECPD.The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.Charon Asetoyer is the Executive Director and founder of the Native American Community Board and the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, located on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. Fleeing to the USA in 1985, Ms. Portillo-Bartow founded the “Where Are the Children?” project which pursues the truth about the disappeared children of Guatemala.Since 1999, Betty Makoni has been building the Girl Child Network (GCN), a loose network of organization that trains girls to succeed in school, thrive in the home and society, and resist sexual abuse and rape – or, if they have been victimized, to survive with pride. The Network now serves over 30,000 girls in 45 districts across Zimbabwe. Today there are branches of Ka-Mer in five other Anatolian cities providing legal and psychological counseling for abused women. In addition to winning over 40 cases domestically, Malika also filed the first case on domestic violence from Russia to the United Nations CEDAW Committee and also litigates cases on gender-based violence, sexual violence and discrimination at the European Court of Human Rights, winning four cases in 2018-2019.