International Women´s Day, Global Education Magazine

Oficina de
Santiago
Con el apoyo de la
Organización
de las Naciones Unidas
para la Educación,
la Ciencia y la Cultura
Nº 7
ISSN 2255-033X
8TH MARCH:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY

THIS EDITION IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN WHO GIVE US LIFE
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Oficina de
Santiago
Con el apoyo de la
Organización
para la Educación,
"I saw that displaced women had many
difﬁculties; they lived through atrocities
and had enormous trauma. I realised
that learning to write and training will
help them forget the trauma, and what
they had to go through. This is what
pushed me to help these women and help
them become independent"
2013 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award:
Sister Angélique Namaika
©UNHCR/B.Sokol

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Human nature is inscribed on the biophysical laws of life and death; which forces us to
consider our relationship with the planet Earth and our destiny as a species. A human
species whose long cosmo-eco-biological evolution would lead to a huge diversity of
singular cultures that have been mutually fertilizing themselves since its inception. The
emergency of ecological science, cosmology and molecular biology have led to
systemic and transdisciplinary understanding where the universe is inside of us, and at
the same time we are the universe. Humanity has in his DNA all the history of the
universe and life.
Naturally, the reductive and mono-disciplinary conception of old science is blind to the
self-eco-organization that occurs in all living autonomy. The sciences of 19th and
20th centuries house the human/animal and culture/nature dichotomy despite the
Darwinian demonstration that contemplates humans as a long evolution of the lineage of
primates Hominoidea. Effectively, self-eco-organizing principle is characterized by the
autonomy and dependence of human life regarding their environment. That is, the
human autonomy is inseparable from dependence on natural energetic resources of its
environment. For this reason, the understanding of prehistory, with hunter-gatherer
societies as las vestige of primitive humanity of homo sapiens, means a trans-cultural
start point in the current world-society of the 21st century.
In these hunter-gatherer societies organized by clans, the male and female genders were
not only biologically differentiate through their sexual organs, but they would also begin
to establish differences in their socio-cultural roles. Probably, the characteristics
sociocultural functions of male bioclase, such as hunting or war, would cause a bigger
development in the left cerebral hemisphere of the encephalon, which is the
neurophysiological part that works the logic, analysis and planification. By contrast, the
sociocultural conditions of female bioclase in this period, as the collection of plants and
fruits -besides traditional mothering-, would lead to a bigger development of right
hemisphere, which is the part responsible for the sensations, feelings, empathy, intuition
and overall apprehension.
Living conditions given from the Upper Paleolithic would cause the dispersion of
human groups by the Earth-Homeland during the last 40,000 years of prehistory,
resulting in the emergence of historical societies in the Middle East, India, China,
Mexico and the Andes. Eight or nine millenniums ago, during the climate change of the
interglacial period of Holocene geological time scale, new complex societies would
begin to organize themselves into city-states: dominating agricultural techniques,
transhumance and pottery. Human civilization abandoned subsistence economy based
on nomadic hunting, to create a sedentary economy based in the sociocultural
complementarity between male bioclase and female bioclase, that is, with the symbiosis
between the pluri-skills of both genders.
Effectively, with the understanding of gender roles in the prehistoric societies, we
glimpse the human being is at the highest ethical and humanistic challenge has ever
been faced during all the history of his own existence. Do not exist corners in the world
where the telecommunications revolution has been impeded to arrive to shed the
shameful figures of gender inequality and violence which plague the face of the Earth in
the 21st century. All the earthly habitat is aware of such shameful and pitiful situation of
female vulnerability: employment and educational discrimination, poverty, illiteracy,
maltreatment, genital mutilation, trafficking, enslavement…
Knowledge make us responsible. Responsibility and ethic commitment is, inexorably,
universal. A planetary and multidimensional reformulation of trans-cultural values of
current and future world-society is necessary. Male chauvinist prejudices existing in the
minds and behavior in certain regions of the world, with patriarchal systems more or
less marked, represent the decline of one-dimensional and linear thought of human
beings, where testosterone is imposed on the foliculine. Therefore, a deeper level of
awareness that understood equality and equity of womanhood as common progess of
human species is required. A species that must learn to recognize at the face of its
opposite and biological complementary, regardless of their cultural or religious beliefs.
We talk about starting a new stage in the history of humanity: namely the cosmodernity.
A new human era characterized by the active participation of the planetary civilization
in the cosmos, whose self-eco-organizing principle involves a close symbiosis between
the polar opposites Ying and Yang, as well as the genuine love to all interrelated
phenomens of cosmic law. We talk to note all global problems from a new spirituality
free of dogmas, and from the aperture that quantum physics gives us, to evolutionate
into homo conscienciatus.
Javier Collado Ruano
Director of Edition
The Feminine Condition: From Homo Sapiens
in the Prehistoric Era to the Homo
Conscienciatus in the Cosmodernity

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La naturaleza humana está inscrita en las leyes biofísicas de vida y muerte, lo cual nos obliga
a plantearnos nuestra relación con el planeta Tierra y nuestro destino como especie. Una espe-
cie humana cuya larga evolución cosmo-eco-biológica daría lugar a una enorme diversidad
de culturas singulares que se han ido fecundando mútuamente desde sus inicios. La emergen-
cia de la ciencia ecológica, la cosmología y la biología molecular, han llevado a la
comprensión sistémica y transdisciplinar de que el universo está dentro de nosotros, al mismo
tiempo que nosotros somos el universo. El género humano lleva en su ADN toda la historia
del universo y de la vida.
Naturalmente, la antigua concepción reduccionista y monodisciplinar de la ciencia, resulta
ciega ante la auto-eco-organización que se produce en toda autonomía viva. Las ciencias del
siglo XIX y XX albergan la dicotomía humano/animal y cultura/naturaleza a pesar de la
demostración darwiniana que contempla al ser humano como una larga evolución de la
estirpe de primates Hominoidea. Efectivamente, el principio auto-eco-organizador se
caracteriza por la autonomía y la dependencia de la vida humana respecto a su medio
ambiente. Es decir, la autonomía humana es inseparable de la dependencia de recursos energé-
ticos naturales de su entorno. Por este motivo, el entendimiento de la prehistoria, con las
sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras como último vestigio de la humanidad primitiva del homo
sapiens, supone un punto de partida transcultural en la actual sociedad-mundo del siglo XXI.
En estas sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras organizadas por clanes, los géneros masculino y
femenino no sólo se diferenciarían biológicamente a través de sus órganos sexuales, sino que
también comenzarían a establecer diferencias en sus roles socio-culturales. Probablemente,
las funciones socioculturales características de la bioclase masculina, como la caza o la
guerra, provocarían un mayor desarrollo en el hemisferio cerebral izquierdo del encéfalo, que
es la parte neurofisiológica que trabaja la lógica, el análisis y la planificación. Por el
contrario, las condiciones socioculturales de la bioclase femenina de este periodo, como la
recolección de plantas y frutas -además de los cuidados maternales tradicionales-, daría lugar
a un mayor desarrollo del hemisferio derecho, que es la parte encargada de las sensaciones,
los sentimientos, la empatía, la intuición y la aprehensión global.
Las condiciones de vida dadas a partir del Paleolítico Superior provocarían la dispersión de
grupos humanos por la Tierra-Patria durante los últimos 40,000 años de la prehistoria, dando
lugar a la emergencia de sociedades históricas en Oriente Medio, India, China, México y los
Andes. Hace ocho o nueve milenios, durante el cambio climático del periodo interglaciar de
la escala temporal geológica del holoceno, nuevas sociedades complejas comenzarían a
organizarse en ciudades-estado: dominando técnicas agrícolas, la transhumancia y la
alfarería. La civilización humana abandonaba la economía de subsistencia basada en la caza
nómada, para crear una economía sedentaria basada en la complementaridad sociocultural de
la bioclase masculina y la bioclase femenina, es decir, con la simbiosis entre las pluricompe-
tencias de los dos géneros.
Efectivamente, con la comprensión de los roles de género en las sociedades prehistóricas,
vislumbramos que el ser humano está ante el mayor desafío ético y humanista al que haya
podido enfrentarse jamás durante toda la historia de su propia existencia. No existen rincones
en el mundo donde la revolución de las telecomunicaciones no haya conseguido llegar para
arrojar las vergonzosas cifras de desigualdad y violencia de género que asolan la faz de la
Tierra en los albores del siglo XXI. Todo el hábitat terrenal es conocedor de tan bochornosa y
paupérrima situación de la vulnerabilidad femenina: discriminación laboral y educativa,
pobreza, analfabetismo, maltrato, matrimonios tempranos, mutilación genital, tráfico, esclavi-
zación…
El conocimiento nos hace responsables. La responsabilidad y el compromiso ético es, inexo-
rablemente, universal. Se hace necesaria una reformulación planetaria y multidimensional de
los valores transculturales de la sociedad-mundo actual y futura. Los prejuicios machistas
existentes en las mentes y en los comportamientos en determinadas regiones del planeta, con
sistemas patriarcales más o menos marcados, representan el ocaso del pensamiento lineal y
unidimensional del ser humano, donde la testosterona se impone a la foliculina. Por tanto, se
requiere un profundo nivel de concientización que comprenda la igualdad y la equidad de la
condición femenina como el progreso común de la especie humana. Una especie que debe
aprender a reconocerse en el rostro de su opuesto y complementario biológico, independiente-
mente de sus creencias culturales o religiosas.
Hablamos de iniciar una nueva etapa en la historia de la humanidad: la cosmodernidad. Una
etapa humana caracterizada por la participación activa de la civilización planetaria en el cos-
mos, cuyo principio auto-eco-organizador suponga una estrecha simbiosis entre los opuestos
polares yin y yang, así como el amor genuino a los fenómenos interrelacionados de la ley
cósmica. Hablamos de comprender todas las problemáticas mundiales desde una nueva espiri-
tualidad libre de dogmas, y desde la abertura que la física cuántica nos aporta, para evolu-
cionar hacia el homo conscienciatus
Javier Collado Ruano
Director of Edition
La Condición Femenina: Del Homo Sapiens en la
Época Prehistórica al Homo Conscienciatus en
la Cosmodernidad

Marta Benavides
6.- Reflections for the 21st Century: On How to Discern
on the Importance of International Women’s Day
10. Única solución:
refundar unas Naciones
Unidas capaces de
establecer un nuevo
orden mundial
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
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Women´s Day:
Interview with
Leymah Gbowee
2011 Peace Nobel
Prize
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e s u n d e r e c h o , l a
aceptación una decisión
Diana Díaz Rodríguez
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Guidote-Alvarez
UNESCO
DREAM
Center
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30. MDGs
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Reflections for the 21st
Century: On How to Discern
on the Importance of
International Women’s Day
The International day of Women was created in recognition and to celebrate
the Rights of women workers, in order to promote their participation in the
struggle for equity and equality, which presently is one of the UN Millennium
Development Goals/MDGs.. and in the upcoming Sustainable Development
Goals/SDGs, it is being considered as a possible stand alone goal, so, women
can have an effective equal presence with men, for social and personal
development. In the Sustainability and Social development Agenda, gender
perspective and women rights are considered to be key to the eradication of
poverty and hunger, and to the creation of the WORLD AND FUTURE THAT
MUST BE CREATED FOR THE CARE OF PRESENT AND FUTURE
GENERATIONS AND THE URGENT CARE OF THE PLANET.
It was first celebrated on 8th March1911, in Germany, Austria, Denmark
and Switzerland The United Nations at its General Assembly in 1977,
proclaimed 8th March as the International Day for Women´s Rights, and now
this celebration and commemoration is in most countries a Nationally celebrated
day.
Today, in spite of all the work about it, the concern on all types of
violence and discrimination against women continues to be a major issue and
concern, to the point that in many countries there are offices to monitor them as
femicides. El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico are concrete examples of this
situation, which happen in many more countries and still does not seem to be
effectively addressed.
Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual
women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the
current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with
a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that
not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative
development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.
There are aspects, many historical, many legal, many cultural, and
economic that affect directly the maintenance of this reality: the colonial and
slave enterprise, the international division of labor, the forced impoverishment
that maintains people to live in survival, which in turn needs to force women
into the care and the so called informal economy and to be cheap labor. All these
conditions are based in ignorance and a culture of discrimination and the
exploitation of peoples and whole nations, this is what we consider to be the
extractive model of development, which is based in the violations of all human
rights, the economic,social and cultural rights of peoples, and the rights of the
planet and the environment.
The structures of the state, must reflect the commitment to this
understanding, that this is a matter of peace and of national security, thus there
must be policies of state and administration of government that in fulfillment of
the national constitution go about meeting in a timely manner, these demands for
the well being of all, and the care of the planet. The national and international
budgets must reflect this commitment. This is not about assistance, but about
real transformation of all the endeavors of national and global society. If a
country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the
whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies
and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the
chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of
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these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then
urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the
financial and economic indebtedness of the society,
and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the
system of inequality and impoverishment as it
basically exist..
If we are serious about this commitments and
we keep our eyes wide open, and our eyes in the
prize as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called us to
be, we will be able to detect the countless very
costly gimmicks that are being created and carried
out today, under the guise for women equality and
for the defense of their rights.
It is time to go from the promises to real
action, it can be done, and the enjoyment of the
fullness of life can be a reality sooner rather than
later.Now is the time... let us move now.
A way to contribute to this societal change of
paradigm about equity and equality for all, and in
particular for women, it is most important to make
sure we have clarity of the call, FOR THE WORLD
AND FUTURE THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE
CARE OF PEOPLE AND PLANET, FOR THE
ERADICATION NOT THE ALLEVIATION OF
POVERTY AND HUNGER.
In El Salvador we have been conducting
consultations on the MDGs and toward the SDGs,
with the very people that have been excluded for
centuries, since the colonizers went global around the world. These are some of
the considerations that are key to real, timely and relevant results:
Women, youth/children, migrants, older adults, first nations, LGBT,
people with special challenges, rural and coastal peoples, who have been and
are traditionally excluded must be intentionally
listened to, and brought into the circle of all.
Use the correct language when referring to
people in conditions of poverty-- not the poor, the
marginalized, the less fortunate, the disadvantage..
etc. etc.. you know all the names used to refer to
people forced into poverty
Do remember that there is lots of expertise in
our communities, we know how to transform the
situations we have to face, besides resisting them,
we create possibilities. When we say we know how
to end poverty and hunger, listen to us.. it is because
of the illegal colonial practices, that we do not have
our lands, water, seeds.. we know how to feed
people, we have been doing this in spite of the land
graving that is still going on. See our expertise. Do
not continue to dismiss it, commit to not do it any
more.
Know that INGOs and NGOs can only
accompany us in the social transformations that
must happen, but each of person can choose to walk
with us. Do not look down on us, nor use our
situation to live privileged life.
Be willing to see deeply on what has been
going on.. we know of high level staff at the UN,
who deny the impact of the historical colonial and
slavery experiences.. these two are key to understand the conditions in which
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we are now, and to figure out the ways to move ahead. Cultural aspects are also
very important factors of development
For our communities peace and development are one and the same.. and
happiness is what we see as a good result of them... success and progress do not
mean the same to us as those people that see them as privilege, position and
money.
T h e U N i s a p e a c e
organization, thus all its work must be
for the enjoyment of a culture of
peace.
We understand that there is a
critical financial and economic crisis,
a crisis of employment and an
environmental - climate change crisis
that are impacting very negatively all
aspects of life and that is also at the
roots of conflict and violence, and
wars.
Especially we need to call
a t t e n t i o n t o t h e f o l l o w i n g
recommendation, which for our
people is the most important and
needed work that must carried out
immediately:
We a r e a f f i r m i n g t h e
recommendation consumption and production patterns by Social Watch:
Joint civil society action around Post-2015 has to focus on goals and
commitments for the countries of the North, the necessary changes of the
consumption and production patterns in these countries, and the structural
framework conditions shaped by these countries, particularly in the global
financial, investment and trade systems.
This call to do this urgent work is best understood and underlined by a
message from Bolivians on the terrible floorings they are suffering today:
Therefore the Bolivian tragedy cannot be blamed only in climate change but in
the fatal combination of causes all related to the thirst for energy of the
occidental way of life.
Here are suggested indicators to
measure the effectiveness of this
work, they were presented Feb 2014
to the UN by the Women Major
Group and the Women Post 2015
Coalition working for the creation of
the SDGs:
•Secure Safe and Sustainable and
Just Production and Consumption
Patterns and eliminate hazardous
substances and technologies.
•Guarantee (100%) application of the
precautionary principle and the
polluter pays principle to policies and
programs on sustainable production
and consumption and to new and
existing technologies, products and
waste management processes.
• Ensure full application of prior free and informed consent: Indigenous and
local knowledge systems and technologies are adequately recognized,
protected, strengthened and used ensuring control by the indigenous
communities. Women and other affected groups participate effectively in
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Marta Benavides with Rosa Lizarde, Feminist Task Force

decision-making throughout all stages of technology development, including
assessment.
• Eliminate (100%) hazardous substances: Phase out harmful substances and
chemicals and radioactive substances linked with persistent and/or
irreversible damage to humans and the environment.
• Harmful chemicals: hazardous pesticides, endocrine disrupting chemicals,
CMRs, PB…etc.
• Harmful substances including so mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, asbestos in
products and processes
Radioactive substances
• Eliminate (100%) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies,
regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards
sustainable, knowledge and employment-intensive sectors and local
sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including
industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise
unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy,
unconventional energy production/franking and industrial bioenergy,
extractive industries and chemical industry
• 100% Internalization of environmental costs for the full life-cycle of
products; this includes full insurance costs for greatest expectable accidents in
case of high-risk technologies. Currently, nuclear power operators and many
other high-risk industrial complexes, are exempted from insurance
obligations, which means that in case of accidents, the tax-payer/ citizens end
up paying for the damage.
• Full environmental and social corporate reporting and accountability. Set
binding criteria that industrial production and consumption practices,
especially extractive industries, do not cause violence, toxic pollution,
displacement, poverty, resource scarcity, gender disparity, or environmental
degradation.
• Enact corporate social accountability standards are put in place to enforce
decent labor conditions and prevent overuse and overproduction of resources
and pollution by investors and corporations.
• Ensure access to environmentally sound technologies, developing countries
have equitable access to technologies, agreement on lifting of intellectual
property barriers and measures to ensure that knowledge is in the public
domain.
• Full technology assessment and authorization: Ensure independent social and
environmental impact assessments to monitor and evaluate new and existing
industries by establishing a multilateral mechanism for ecological, social,
cultural, and economic evaluation of technologies. Enact moratorium on all
technologies that can damage Earth cycles, such as geo-engineering and deep
sea mining.
A n d h e r e i s a l s o t h e O x f a m d o c u m e n t o n i n e q u a l i t i e s :
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/working-for-the-few-economic-inequality
By Marta Benavides,
GCAP Global Co Chair, and the Feminist Task Force/FTF,
SIGLO XXIII Movement for Culture of Peace,
El Salvador
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Es patente el caos en que han desembocado la codicia y las ambiciones hegemónicas de
unos cuantos países y la total irresponsabilidad intergeneracional con que han intentado
gobernar el mundo.
Es necesario y apremiante poner en práctica la Carta de las Naciones Unidas y el diseño
de cooperación, solidaridad, justicia y libertad para la “igual dignidad de todos los seres
humanos”, tan bien establecidos en los “principios democráticos” de la Constitución de la
UNESCO.
Está clara la crisis sistémica –ética, social, política, económica, medioambiental,…- que
estamos atravesando y que, como tantas veces he repetido, requiere múltiples transiciones:
• La transición desde una economía de especulación, deslocalización productiva y guerra a una
economía de desarrollo global sostenible y humano.
• La transición desde una cultura de imposición, dominio, violencia y enfrentamiento a una
cultura de encuentro, conversación, conciliación, alianza y paz.
• Una transición, en suma, de la fuerza a la palabra.
La Carta de las Naciones Unidas se inicia con un párrafo en el que, insisto, se sintetiza la
razón de ser de las Naciones Unidas en 1945 y, hoy mismo, las soluciones que podrían permitir
a la humanidad en su conjunto iniciar una “nueva era”: “Nosotros, los pueblos… hemos resuelto
evitar a las generaciones venideras el horror de la guerra”. No se cita a los gobiernos o a los Esta-
dos sino a los pueblos, que son quienes deben tener en sus manos las riendas del destino común.
Y no se aplica, una vez más, como se ha hecho a través de la historia, el perverso adagio de “Si
quieres la paz, prepara la guerra”. Se tiene que “evitar el horror de la guerra”, es decir, se debe
construir la paz. Paz en uno mismo, paz en relación a los demás, en relación a nuestro entorno,
paz a escala nacional, a escala regional, a escala mundial. Pero el inicio de la Carta nos da otra
clave esencial para el mañana: la responsabilidad intergeneracional, el tener en cuenta, como
compromiso supremo, según palabras del Presidente Nelson Mandela, a la generación que llega
a un paso de la nuestra. Debemos cuidar la habitabilidad de la Tierra, y debemos cuidar también
desde un punto de vista conceptual nuestro legado, de tal manera que todos los seres humanos, y
no sólo unos cuantos, puedan vivir dignamente.
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Única solución: refundar unas Naciones Unidas capaces de
establecer un nuevo orden mundial
Fede"co Mayor Zaragoza
por
Director General de la UNESCO 1987-1999
Presidente de la Fundación para una Cultura de Paz

El neoliberalismo globalizador sustituyó a las Naciones Unidas por grupos plutocráti-
cos y los valores éticos por los bursátiles, por el mercado. El resultado está a la vista: crisis de
toda índole y de gran profundidad, en la que todos los parámetros se agravan, con en efecto,
desigualdades inadmisibles -85 personas, según OXFAM, acaparan una riqueza equivalente a
la de la mitad de la humanidad (¡!), estimada en 3.300 millones de seres humanos, que sobre-
viven (o mueren) en condiciones de pobreza extrema-; amenaza nuclear; tráficos
supranacionales de drogas, personas, armas…; incumplimiento reiterado de las
responsabilidades propias de ciudadanos democráticos, puesto que evaden los impuestos en
lugar de procurar comportarse como corresponde a las representaciones fidedignas de la volun-
tad popular... Hace años, a principios de la década de los ochenta, puse de relieve que la
adopción de medidas no podía aplazarse, especialmente en casos de potencial irreversibilidad.
Y hoy, de manera particular en todo lo que tiene que ver con los procesos sociales y naturales,
en lugar de asumir con criterios socialmente apropiados y con rigor científico la situación, nos
dejamos guiar exclusivamente por el cortoplacismo de los beneficios dinerarios. El mercado lo
domina todo, mientras que la propia habitabilidad del planeta se deteriora.
Sólo el poder ciudadano, sólo “Nosotros, los pueblos…” puede ahora terminar con la
deplorable situación mundial y esclarecer los sombríos horizontes actuales.
Los siguientes títulos publicados en los últimos días en un periódico (“El País”) pueden
hacernos reaccionar y expresar en un gran clamor popular el rechazo total, la objeción de
conciencia y la desobediencia cívica a quienes intentan, a pesar de la severidad de los retos y
amenazas que afligen a la humanidad, seguir favoreciendo la pujanza de unos cuantos cuando
los muchos ven cómo se van mermando cada día sus necesidades materiales, intelectuales y
culturales:
• “La rebelión laica en Siria se rompe”.
• “Ucrania se hunde en la violencia” y “La represión desencadena una matanza”.
• “Los desmanes de la mayor mina europea de cobre a cielo abierto”(las multinacionales
mineras siguen produciendo estragos en el medio ambiente… llenándose los bolsillos y
colmando los paraísos fiscales).
• “El negocio del cambio climático. Empresas y fondos apuestan por industrias que se
beneficiarán del aumento de las temperaturas. Para los inversores, la clave estará en el
agua…”.
• “Tres años después de la primavera árabe"... (y once años después de la invasión de Irak… en
medio del total desconcierto, aunque, eso sí, los yacimientos de petróleo ya están, desapareci-
dos Sadam Husein y Gadaffi, en manos de los “grandes del poder energético”…)
• “Se ven luces, pero Oriente Próximo no mejora”: es de especial urgencia terminar con la
vergüenza del “eterno” conflicto palestino—israelí… sólo, con la autoridad de unas Naciones
Unidas dotadas de un apoyo global y de los medios humanos, financieros y técnicos necesa-
rios, podría reorientarse adecuadamente y sin mayor retraso, el futuro de Siria, Egipto…
• “Inflamable” (las noticias que llegan de Ucrania, Tailandia o Venezuela hacen evidente que la
historia es una pelea perpetua…).
• “59 años de cárcel para siete acusados de inducir a la prostitución a menores…” (el tráfico y
consumo de drogas, inmensamente mortíferos, no se resolverán hasta que se enfrenten, con
acciones reguladoras apropiadas, como problemas de orden sanitario y no de seguridad, y dejen
de promoverse, por los fabulosos réditos que proporcionan y por la existencia de paraísos fis-
cales, que nunca desaparecerán porque son los países más ricos de la Tierra, cuya brújula está
desquiciada por la ambición, los que los protegen celosamente).
• “Pequeña guerra fría: el contraataque de Bruselas a Suiza intenta contener la escalada popu-
lista en Europa”…
• “Justicia Universal, sí, si no afecta al amigo… La presión política y la diplomática se impo-
nen sobre los derechos si los criminales son socios. Prima la geoeconomía”…
• El G-20 promete un plan para acelerar el crecimiento un 2% en cinco años", y "las tensiones
por la fragilidad de los emergentes afloran en el G-20"
Ya ven: “Para muestra, dice el refrán, vale un botón”. Este desolador panorama requiere
con gran apremio un Sistema de Naciones Unidas eficaz para toda la humanidad, sin excepcio-
nes. El Partido Republicano de los Estados Unidos se opondrá siempre –como lo hizo ya en
1919 con la Sociedad de Naciones- a que la justicia, la seguridad y la paz sean garantizadas por
la unión de todos los países, capaces de reaccionar con prontitud y contundencia cuando un
país recurra a la violencia, contraviniendo los principios de convivencia democrática.
Democracia a escala mundial es la solución.
Por primera vez en la historia, podemos construirla e incorporarla a nuestro comportamiento
cotidiano. El tiempo de la obediencia ciudadana y de la sumisión ha terminado. Podemos expre-
sarnos libremente y tenemos que hacer posible la gran inflexión histórica de la oligocracia a la
democracia, del bienestar de unos cuantos al bienestar generalizado, donde cada ser humano
único pueda desarrollar plenamente las facultades que le distinguen.
“Nosotros, los pueblos…” tenemos la palabra. Unos cuantos tienen la fuerza. No
estemos distraídos ni atemorizados: ha llegado el gran momento, después de tan-
tos siglos de oprobio y sumisión, en que la palabra prevalezca sobre la fuerza.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY
INTERVIEW WITH LEYMAH GBOWEE

Javier Collado Ruano: Today, 8th March 2014, International Women´s
Day, we have a special guess with us: Ms. Leymah Gbowee, President of
Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) and 2011 Nobel Peace
Prize, along Ms. Tawakel Karman and Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Thank
you very much to attend us and to share your time and some of your
reflections between our readers in this special today.
Leymah Gbowee: Thank you very much to you Javier. The pleasure is mine.
JCR: As an inherent specialist in Human Rights, Woman Rights and
Peacebuilding, do you think 90´ Liberian woman experiences is a good
example of Human Rights and Gender flight for other countries around
the world, especially in Africa?
LG: The Liberian women peace movement demonstrated to the world that
grassroots movements are essential to sustaining peace; that women in
leadership positions are effective brokers for peace; and the importance of
culturally relevant social justice movements. Liberia’s experience is a good
example to the world that women—especially African women—can be
drivers of peace.
JCR: I believe you. When we met last month of September in Salvador
de Bahía, Brazil, during your conferences “Fronteiras do Pensamento”
(Boundaries of Thought), I felt all your enormous courage comes from
your ideological convictions and specially from your role as Mum.
Mother of six children, you said that social changes must be performed
by mothers. What kind of message could we send today to support their
role as engine of change of the world-society?
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2011 Nobel Peace Prize:
Ms. Tawakel Karman,
Leymah Gbowee and Ms.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

LG: There are three things women can do as
engines of change. First at the family level, we
have to go back to the space as mothers. We lay
down the values and principles for our children;
we show them what is right and
how to care for others. Many
times and in many places,
mothers think of their children as
friends, and don’t enforce the
values and principles of healthy
living, of leading a healthy life.
Second, mothers understand the
challenges and ills of their
communities. They know what is
wrong and what is right in their communities. It is
incumbent upon mothers to work on the issues
that can derail the safety of their communities; if
left untouched, the values and principles of family
are undermined. At the national level, mothers
must keep their eyes open on the political
dynamics because the personal is the political.
Politics affect the prices in the market, the
maternal mortality rate, whether our children can
obtain a quality education. Politics even decide the
reproductive rights of women. Therefore, we must
ensure that our political representatives expand
and protect our rights.
JCR: There are not doubts you see the world-
society with a rich and interesting approach
after your long theoretical and pragmatically
experience. In this sense, how do you imagine
the closed future? What are the hot points that
human being should be focused to improve the
current world?
LG: The issue of rights will continue to be a
source of tension well into the future. If we look at
the situation of conflict in many communities, a
lot of it derives from individuals not respecting the
rights of others whether its
determining the sexuality of
others or what happens to the
bodies of people. We must recog-
nize that the way you treat your
neighbors extinguishes or ignites
conflicts. Essentially, the hot
point is: How do we respect the
rights of individuals?
JCR: It is a good question and it is more
interesting if we take a look to the humankind
future. In fact, following some statistics from
different studies, such as United Nations
Department of Economic and Social
Affairs inform of 2012, DESA, what
kind of challenges we will have in
2050, for example, when the number of
citizens arrive to 9,600 thousand of
millions?
LG: There are two major challenges we
now face that will continue to define our future:
the environment and youth unemployment. The
environment—specifically climate change—
impacts the way we relate to the Earth and to each
other. The scramble for environmental resources
will continue to be a source of conflict
exacerbated by youth unemployment. Our failure
to provide meaningful opportunities for the youth
makes conflict more attractive which has a
destabilizing affect.
JCR: In this sense, it is also interesting to link
your reflections with the Millennium
Development Goals of the United Nations
(MDGs), because it is the first time in the
history of humanity in which almost all the
countries around the world signed deals to
work together under the same premises. What
do you think about them? Will we see them
achieved any day?
LG: The Millennium Development Goals are an
important effort to address issues of gender-parity,
opportunity, and safety. However, the MDGs are a
little too ambitious. Unfortunately, we will likely
not achieve the MDGs according to the timeline.
This is evidenced by the limited commitment of
national governments to fund education and
gender parity programs. Instead, competing
interests often override
the national political
will to adhere to the
MDG which further
d e l a y s i t s f u l l
implementation.
J C R : D e a r M s .
Gbowee, thank you very much for your time
and inspiring words, it was a real pleasure for
me to know you and also to share your
reflections today, International Women´s Day.
LG: Your welcome, the pleasure was me.
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Nº 7 International Women´s Day: Interview With Leymah Gbowee
“The Liberian women
p e a c e m o v e m e n t
demonstrated to the world
that grassroots movements
are essential to sustaining
peace”
“mothers must keep their
eyes open on the political
dynamics because the
personal is the political”

Leymah Gbowee was born in 1972 in Monrovia,
Liberia, and spent most of her formative years there, which at
the time was one of the most modern and sophisticated cities
in West Africa. Leymah attended private school, and was
always a very driven and ambitious student. In high school
she served as a senator in the student government and was on
the honor roll. She had dreams of being a doctor, and in 1990,
after graduating from high school, she planned to enroll in the
University of Liberia to study medicine.
It was at this same time that a small group of rebels
passed from the neighboring country of Cote d’Ivoire into a
small county in northern Liberia. Led by a man named
Charles Taylor, the rebels were starting a movement to
overthrow the current Liberian president, Samuel Doe. Doe
was a corrupt and violent man who had sharply divided the
Liberian population along tribal identities. It was in the face
of this discrimination and corruption that Taylor started his
rebel movement to kick Doe and his followers out of their
political offices.
As Taylor and his men advanced towards Monrovia,
thousands of people became displaced as well as victims of
rape, looting, and violence, by both government and rebel
soldiers. Because Leymah’s father worked for the Liberian
Security Agency in the US Embassy, he was able to send for
his family, and they found safety there. As the situation in
Liberia continued to deteriorate, Leymah, along with her
mother and sisters, made plans to flee Liberia on a refugee
boat that was headed for Ghana. They ended up in the
Buduburam refugee camp, living among thousands of other
displaced Liberians.
In 1991 there was a break in the fighting, and Leymah
returned to Liberia. There she ran into a man named Daniel,
whom she had met in Buduburam, and they began a
relationship. Daniel and Leymah had four children together,
but Daniel turned into an emotionally and physically abusive
man. In an effort to gain back some independence and self-
confidence, Leymah enrolled in a local social work program.
There she received her social work certificate and began
working with refugees of the Sierra Leone civil war, helping
to heal them from the traumas of war. Leymah enjoyed her
role in helping others to heal, and in an effort to also heal
herself, left Daniel and moved back in with her parents.
Then, her work as a peace-builder really began. With
the encouragement of her mother, Leymah returned to school
and received her Associate of Arts Degree while volunteering
with the Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program
(THRP). She worked with those in the rural communities who
had suffered the worst acts of violence during the war; as well
as with “Taylor’s Boys,” who where the children Taylor’s
men had abducted and forced to become child soldiers.
Leymah’s work, especially with the women of her
country, made her realize how important it was for women to
have a voice in the peace process, and Leymah dreamed of a
time when women would be called together to fight for peace.
A friend of Leymah’s, who she had met through her trauma
healing work, presented her with a life-changing opportunity
to make this dream a reality.
Leymah’s friend, Thelma Ekiyor, had started an
organization known as the Women in Peacebuilding Network,
or WIPNET, and she asked Leymah to head the Liberian
chapter. Leymah became their voice as the women of Liberia
called for an end to the war. By this time, Taylor had been
elected President of Liberia, but another rebel force had been
carrying out attacks in and around Monrovia in an effort to
overthrow him. There had now been violence in Liberia for
roughly 14 years. The women of WIPNET decided they
would not rest until peace was achieved. Leymah led several
outreach campaigns to both Christian and Muslim women,
which started the creation of the Women of Liberia Mass
Action for Peace Movement. This movement brought
thousands of women from all over the country to Monrovia
day after day, wearing white and bringing signs declaring
peace. The women of WIPNET staged a sit-in at a fish market
by Capitol Hill, and told Taylor they would not move until he
agreed to meet with them.
They sat for weeks, in the baking hot sun and pouring
rain, until Taylor eventually set up a meeting. As WIPNET’s
voice, Leymah was chosen to address Taylor. She called for
an immediate end to the fighting, and the resumption of peace
talks between Taylor and the rebels with oversight from an
international organization. Taylor agreed to these conditions.
Leymah and other other core WIPNET workers made the
same plea to the rebels, who also agreed. In June, Leymah and
other supporters traveled to Ghana where the peace talks were
being held, and staged a sit in there as well. However, the
news day after day was that the negotiations were stalled.
Leymah eventually led the women inside to the meeting hall,
looped arms, and created a blockade, not allowing anyone out
until an agreement had been signed. This last effort changed
the course of the peace talks and by August, West African
peacekeeping troops had arrived in Liberia, intercepting
thousands of dollars worth of weapons that were intended for
Taylor. A few days later, Taylor resigned and went into exile
in Nigeria.
Leymah’s work was instrumental in pushing Taylor
into exile and smoothing the path for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s
election -Africa’s first female head of state. Gbowee has con-
tinued her work in peace and conflict resolution, and is now
leading the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, one of the six
coordinating organizations that created and guides the
roadmap of resolution. She is the President of the Gbowee
Peace Foundation Africa, based in Monrovia, and also serves
as the Executive Director of Women, Peace and Security
Network Africa (WIPSEN-Africa).
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El 10 de diciembre de 1948 se firmó la Declaración Universal de los Derechos
Humanos reconociendo que todas las personas nacen libres y en condiciones de dignidad e
igualdad de derechos. Sin embargo, 66 años después, actos de discriminación y violencia
siguen provocando la persecución de niños, niñas, hombres y mujeres alrededor del
mundo.
Dentro de la totalidad de la población, las personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales,
transgénero e intersexuales (LGBTI) y los defensores de sus derechos hacen parte de uno
de los grupos más perseguidos. Una muestra de los niveles atroces de violencia social y
política en su contra está relacionada con el hecho de que la orientación sexual e identidad
de género de las personas LGBTI son ilegales en 76 países, siete de los cuales castigan las
relaciones con personas del mismo sexo con la pena de muerte. Lo anterior, sumado a ex-
presiones de violencia y discriminación permanente por parte de todos los sectores de la
sociedad, incluso en países en donde no es penalizado, han obligado a miles personas a
huir de sus lugares de origen en busca de protección. En situaciones de conflicto armado o
extrema violencia los derechos de las personas LGBTI se ven amenazados con mayor ve-
hemencia, generando la necesidad de buscar protección en el exterior o ser víctimas de
desplazamientos forzados internos.
Ante las más recientes y preocupantes demostraciones de brutal violencia hacia
personas de la comunidad LGBTI, ACNUR manifiesta que todas las personas sin ex-
cepción alguna deben ejercer sus derechos independientemente de su orientación sexual o
identidad de género y saluda con gratitud las iniciativas y expresiones de solidaridad que
al respecto han surgido.
Es importante insistir en que ser lesbiana, gay, bisexual, transgénero o intersexual
no es una enfermedad. La violencia y la discriminación están basadas en la inequidad de
género y esquemas de valores restrictivos contrarios a la libertad e integridad sexual, y al
libre desarrollo de la personalidad. Ser LGBTI es ser una persona como cualquier otra que
por cuenta de su orientación sexual o identidad de género se ve enfrentada a desafiar los
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ACNUR: La igualdad es un
derecho, la aceptación una
decisión

modos convencionales de ver la vida en familia, la sexualidad y las relaciones de poder,
es vivir de una manera que va en contra de creencias culturales que niegan el pluralismo
y la diversidad. A pesar de los avances en la reivindicación de los derechos humanos, las
personas LGBTI se ven obligados a vivir como ciudadanos de segunda categoría que no
tienen acceso igualitario a sus derechos en una sociedad que les esconde, niega su exis-
tencia y les denigra.
ACNUR con base en la premisa que “los derechos LGBTI son derechos
humanos” ha convocado a organizaciones de la sociedad civil, entidades estatales,
agencias de Naciones Unidas y miembros de la comunidad LGBTI a unir esfuerzos en
contra de la violencia y discriminación. El pasado 25 de noviembre durante los 16 días
de activismo en contra de la violencia basada en género, ACNUR lanzó una campaña
que busca el respeto de los derechos a la vida, a la integridad, a la libertad, a la libre
expresión, a la igualdad, a acceder a un trabajo digno, y a acceder a procedimientos de
protección y asilo sin temor a ser abusados, discriminados o violentados.
En el marco de dicha campaña ACNUR invita a todos los miembros de la
sociedad a ponerle fin a la desigualdad, oponerse a los actos de violencia y a hacer frente
junto a personas LGBTI, activistas y defensores para que los derechos puedan ejercerse
condiciones de igualdad y dignidad.
Hechos históricos de rechazo hacia personas LGBTI en varios de sus entornos
sociales más cercanos (familia, iglesia, escuelas, etc.) se han convertido en esquemas de
violencia cultural que se han traducido en políticas públicas y leyes restrictivas, anti-
democráticas y punitivas. A menudo los asesinatos, la violencia sexual, la represión y el
aislamiento son cometidos en contra de personas LGBTI como castigo por ejercer sus
derechos y resistirse a la discriminación. Estos actos de violencia que se traducen en de-
tenciones arbitrarias, condenas injustificadas, tortura, secuestro y demás abusos son en
efecto violaciones reiteradas a sus derechos, actos que deben tener fin sin cabida a más
postergaciones.
Pese a las dificultades, varios países avanzan en el reconocimiento y respeto de
los derechos de personas LGBTI; desde 1990 40 países han legalizado las relaciones
entre personas del mismo sexo. Países como Sur África e India llevan una trayectoria
luchando por descriminalizar las relaciones del mismo sexo y muchos otros han prohi-
bido legalmente la discriminación hacia personas LGBTI. Acogiéndose al Derecho
Internacional de Refugiados, la Corte Europea de Justicia (ECJ) ha ordenado
recientemente que personas gay puedan solicitar refugio en la Unión Europea en caso de
estar en riesgo en sus países de origen, reiterando el proceso al que cualquier ciudadano
tiene derecho.
ACNUR define como refugiado a aquella persona que huye de su país de origen
y cruza fronteras internacionales por un temor fundado de persecución por pertenecer a
un grupo, raza, religión o partido político. Dado el contexto y las circunstancias en las
que viven lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero e intersexuales, esa persona puede ser
su vecino, su colega de trabajo, su amigo cercano, su hija, incluso usted, y en todos los
casos dicha persona tiene derecho de acceder a un proceso adecuado de protección den-
tro o fuera de su país de origen.
En las Américas, ACNUR ha trabajado en colaboración con organizaciones, ci-
viles y estatales, para garantizar la protección de todas las personas de interés y en
promover la creación de un espacio de protección libre de discriminación y desigualdad.
El gobierno de Brasil ha concedido asilo y ha aceptado los casos de reasentamiento de
personas que huyeron de la persecución por motivos de su orientación sexual. En
Venezuela, ACNUR ha trabajado con la Comisión Nacional encargada de elaborar los
criterios y el procedimiento de tramitación de los casos LGBTI. México ha incluido
como una quinta casual para el reconocimiento de la condición de refugiado la persecu-
ción por motivos de género. En Colombia ACNUR, a través del Sistema de Gestión de
Datos sobre Violencia Basada en Genero (GBVIMS) que se ejecuta en coordinación con
UNFPA, ha identificado graves casos de violencia sexual contra jóvenes y mujeres por
su orientación sexual que han causado su desplazamiento forzado. Todos estos países se
han sumado a la campaña lanzada por ACNUR con el fin de erradicar la violencia y la
discriminación hacia personas LGBTI.
ACNUR agradece y fomenta que todos los países mantengan abiertas sus puertas
y trabajen en aumentar la protección de aquellos que huyen a causa de la violencia por
ser lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero o intersexuales, dentro y fuera de los países
de origen, y se mantiene firme y comprometido en la lucha contra la discriminación, la
intolerancia y la violencia basada en género.
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Diana Díaz Rodríguez
Asistente Regional de Información Pública
ACNUR Colombia

Javier Collado Ruano: Dear readers, today we have the opportunity to learn from a big
activist and a distinguished theatre artists in drama, music, literacy, arts, dance, visual and
martial arts. Her name is Cecile Guidote-Alvarez and she is the Director of the Philippine
Center of International Theater Institute/Earthsavers UNESCO DREAM Center. I met her
in Rio+20 and since then we have exchanged reflections about how to achieve sustainable
development, between many other issues. Ms. Guidote-Alvarez, thank you very much to
attend us today, for our special edition of Global Education Magazine: International
Women´s Day.
Cecile Guidote-Alvarez: Thank you for allowing us the golden opportunity to share the
Bohol Declaration that launched interdisciplinary, interfaith, the RAINBOW CROSS
Movement of healing trauma through the arts.
JCR: I would like to start the interview saying “thank you very much” for invite us to
attend the Workshop-Forum entitled “the Inter-disciplinary Cultural Roadmap to Heal-
ing Trauma and Building climate Solutions”, which took place two weeks ago in
Bohol, the area affected by earthquake/ Super Typhoon Haiyan. Unfortunately, our aca-
demical obligations did not allow us to visit the Philippine that time, but I hope to have
new opportunities in the closed future. In the letter you sent me, you said “the forum
and workshop will orient and engage teachers, artists, social workers, medical practi-
tioners, policymakers, industry representatives, scientists, and other stakeholders in a
lively discussion and demonstration of the realistic options at hand for restoring and nurtur-
ing the mental health of survivors with skills training for employment or entrepreneurship
while engendering fortitude, faith and the strength of spirit to triumph over adversity”.
Could you please let us know what the results of such dialogue and effort were? Did you
achieve the goal to build the “Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Therapeutic Emergency
Response”?
CGA: Yes, the demonstration workshop with disaster survivors was an effective theatre
experience. Artists from different parts of our country worked together and collectively
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by Cecile Guidote-Alvar!
Nº 7
International Women´s Day
INTERVIEW WITH
CECILE GUIDOTE-ALVAREZ

created scenarios that reflected the angst, the fears, and hopes through the coordination of
the NCCA- National Committee of Dramatic Arts (NCDA) chaired by Luthgardo
Labad. I think it is noteworthy to underscore the observation of Dr. Hubert Gijzen who
witnessed the workshop and the vignettes created by different teams from Luzon, Visayas
and Mindanao and teachers from Bohol that had theatre healing orientation through the
support of “Save the Children” This was complemented by the Earthsavers ‘handicapa-
ble’ artists synergized with indigenous and out-of-school youth working with deaf
children and survivors for 3 hours which they joined the showcase performance.
The Earthsavers within the Philippine Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI)
were honored by UNESCO as Artists for Peace in 2003 and in 2011, the Earthsavers
Academy with its inclusive and transformative teaching module for persons in difficult
circumstances was designated the 6th in the world as a UNESCO DREAM Center. It was
personally inaugurated in the Philippines by Director-General, Dr. Irina Bokova.
Speaking in Bohol, Dr. Gijzen, Diector of
the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Science
Bureau stated: “With the Theatre on the
Edge Festival, I also saw that building
back better for you is not only related to
the infrastructure, but also to the ‘soft-
ware’, to the society at large. You, the per-
formers and artists showcased today the
power of culture, the power of arts and
music, which can be applied in so many
areas.
Whether it is to raise awareness on
MDGs, on political or societal issues, on
the MDGs, or on complex issues such as
climate change, the performing arts and
music play a very special role in convey-
ing sometimes difficult and complex mes-
sages.
Via this Theatre on the Edge Festival you
focused on the specific theme of natural
disasters, and I could recognize at least
three key functions:
a) To raise awareness on the origins and causes of natural disasters.
b) To contribute to community preparedness, so that we know how to respond when
disaster strikes.
c) To mobilize arts for healing of trauma inflicted by natural disasters
We all learned a lot from this. I personally learned also something else, namely that the
performing arts and music is a very powerful way of conveying complex
messages. Politicians and organizations like the United Nations, including myself, we all
use words to convey our messages. The power of words indeed is strong, and if words are
chosen right, the message goes straight to your head. But arts is much more powerful, be-
cause the message goes straight to the heart.”
JCR: And what was the role of the UNESCO-Jakarta, Regional Science Bureau for Asia
and the Pacific, in such practices at
the events?
CGA: The dissemination of the Bohol
experience will be facilitated by the
UNESCO bureau in our region of the
Asia-Pacific that is so vulnerable to
extreme climate occurrence. The bu-
reau’s wealth of research, experts and
experience in the field enhances our
goal of helping build green cities and
safer schools. Moreover, UNESCO is
a partner to strengthen south-south
dialogue in defying disasters, our
plans to link, coordinate and collabo-
rate through facilitation of support
from parallel UNESCO offices to
expand the network with inter-
continental connectivity with
countries in the Arab-African region
as well as in the Caribbean-Latin
America region. We involve public-
private partnership to execute our
programs.
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The United Nations office of Coordinating Affairs (OCHA) reports that the Asia-
Pacific region suffered worst national disasters in 2013 besides the impact of the fierc-
est typhoon recorded in history, the Philippines also suffered 16 natural disasters. The
Asia-Pacific region was hit by 137 natural disasters compared with 93 separate events
in 2012. Meanwhile, the number of people killed recorded was 18, 375 and 82 million
affected. More than 3.9 million people in 4 countries hit Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR
and Thailand. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were hit by deadly typhoon ‘Mahasen’. India
and China were also heavily affected by floods, not to count other earthquakes and tsu-
namis in the last 3 years.
In the light of this reality, the Asia-Pacific Science Bureau of UNESCO headed by Dr.
Hubert Gijzen is humongous. We are grateful for the commitment of support from
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova as expressed in her message: “It is symbolic
and important that this workshop is held in Bohol, which suffered from the impact of
the earthquake and from the devastation of typhoon ‘Haiyan’. Bohol embodies the
spirit of resilience that all societies need today, and especially those of Small Island
Developing States, on the frontline of climate change.
This Asia-Pacific Regional Forum is designed to address trauma through an interdisci-
plinary approach to restore the confidence of communities and to rebuild anew. For
this-the workshop will train and mobilize national teams to cope and over-
come—through creativity and solidarity—the difficulties faced by survivors of disas-
ters, victims of armed conflict or other forms of violence.
Art Education has a key role to play in releasing trauma, in
promoting healing and in catalyzing positive change….
This is why UNESCO supports arts education as a vital tool
for intercultural learning, for global citizenship and for the
acquisition of life skills. This education highlights the
importance of cultural diversity, and it reinforces behaviors
and values for deeper social cohesion. This is essential for
all societies today—global challenges mean that no State
can stand alone, and humanity can only move forward
together, guided by shared values and common aspirations
for a better future.”
This vision is re-enforced by the message of our President, His Excellency Benigno
Aquino III who applauded the organizers led by the UNESCO DREAM Center in stress-
ing that “Adaptation, education, and synergized action are fundamental components of
the global discourse on climate change. No longer are nations resigned to tackle
environmental threats and issues within borders; all are moving towards more compre-
hensive and inclusive approaches to development.
Citizens hold crucial roles in the task, ensuring that our dialogues remain focused on
intergenerational progress and grounded in the current and future needs and aspirations
of the people. This is especially important as the Philippines recovers from one of the
most devastating calamities in recorded history, and as we refine our strategies in the
context of our vulnerabilities to climate risk.
May your initiative serve the Filipino people as well, as it lends face to our country’s
disaster preparation and risk reduction campaign. Let your exchange effectively chan-
nel efforts into managing the risks we are exposed to as humanity harnesses natural
resources, and enable your participants to become agents of healing and empowerment
within and beyond our archipelago.”
JCR: Without doubts, these efforts will go a long way as community members become
more aware of the phenomenon of climate change, especially for the natural disasters.
In this sense, I totally agree with Dr. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO,
when she expressed you in the letter of 19th December 2013 that “the expedition of the
Ensemble to Paris would not have been possible without your personal engagement and
energy. Your presence here in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan was a more timely ges-
ture to honour the victims of the devastating natural disaster”. I am sure the initia-
tive Theatre Training for All of the ITI in the Asia-Pacific region will represent a big
initiative to help all survivors. How could our readers support this initiative? How
could they be involved?
CGA: Readers can liaise and identify the theatre or culture group within their schools
or community. You can share this methodology of cultural caregiving to get involve
with them as a volunteer and reach out to vulnerable and marginalized sectors in your
place to extend to them, with value laden art education. Hospitals, prisons, refugee
camps, organizations for persons with disabilities and senior citizens, rehabilitation cen-
ters for drug abusers can all be given arts education for their recuperation and restoring
their mental health.
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Those interested can join our growing network and can connect with the International
Theatre Institute (ITI) whose Director-General Tobias Biancone can be accessed for
events like: the World Theatre Day in March, Arts Education Week in May, World
Dance Day in April or the Earthsavers for participation in Clean Up the World in Sep-
tember, Earth Day in April. The ITI website is: www.iti-worldwide.org Our Philippine
Center of the ITI will be offering this Creative Theatre Transformative course show-
cased in Paris and Bohol through a consortium of universities like the University of
Makati, Isabela State University with La Salette University in Northern Luzon, through
the SVD system and other community groups through the Earthsavers-UNESCO
DREAM Center. My Skype address is cecile.alvarez7 and Viber number is +63917-
543-2889. We have a nationwide radio broadcast. We are now building a new Earthsav-
ers website with the help of Filipino-American students from Stanford University in
California, USA. Our email address is: dreamcenterphilippines@yahoo.com.ph
JCR: By the other hand, I wanted to quote a phrase of Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-
General of the United Nations: “There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries,
cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excus-
able, never tolerable.” Under this premise, our intentionality would be to integrate
the new humanism vision of UNESCO to all our readers, especially for the women. In
this way, I was thinking about how create a new “vanishing point” and raise awareness
about the situation of women worldwide. That´s why I feel you could help us to build
that kind of vision with your artistic and creative approach. Why do you think it is so
important the theatre to help people in general and specially for those who are now
handicapped physically and psychologically?
CGA: Theatre is a mirror. It calls attention to problems and provides a multi-sectoral
avenue for an intercultural dialogue to reflect on solutions and creatively bond groups
of common interest to cooperatively address or prevent crisis. Creative empowerment
with skills and confidence building coupled with endurance and perseverance is a pre-
requisite armor for people who are in a mental state of discombobulation because of
incalculable grief of loss, anger and despair due to physical incapacity or deprivation. It
is an engine for creative industry and social entrepreneurship.
Theatre is also an anchor that can help participants and audience grow in the apprecia-
tion of indigenous heritage and traditional values that must not be laid aside but recon-
ciled with technological advances. It is an antidote to forgetfulness. In fact, a memory
bank to draw lessons from history to guide present and future action because the worst
illness that can be inflicted on a person or a nation is amnesia and even Alzheimer’s dis-
ease.
JCR: In this sense, doing a cultural-sensitive parallelism between the emotional shock
after earthquake that shook Bohol, I wanted you to express that, under UN WOMEN s-
tudies, 70% of women in the world report having experienced physical and/or sexual
violence at some point in their lifetime. Do you think it could be interesting to
introduce “theatre therapy” into educational curricula at schools? Could that help the 60
million girls worldwide who are married before the age of 18?
CGA: Yes. It is necessary to introduce an early awareness for the curriculum in
schools. I had talked with our Secretary of Education informing him of our healing arts
education module and he was receptive to integrate it in our K-12 educational
curriculum. We are concerned that media also serves as a creative classroom and that
local governments must be appropriately involved.
There is a Commission on the Role of Women. Media must sustain interest on the
violations or non-implementations of laws to protect the rights of women and children
provide as well the good news. We linked up agencies of government, a number led by
women and there is a greater number of women in both houses of the legislature.
Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Committee on Environment and Climate Change
has stressed that “there is an urgent need of healing. Disasters have wreaked havoc on
cities and psyches across the Philippines. We cannot allow these people to wallow in
collective sense of loss, grief and depression the same way we don’t allow the wounded
to be left untreated. We need to deliver psycho-social assistance to these
victims. “Besides her commendation, our Bohol effort has received attention as well
from other women legislators, Senator Pia Cayetano who heads the Education and
Culture Committee, Senator Cynthia Villar who addresses agricultural security, Senator
Grace Poe who supervises the Committee on Communications and Information and
Senator Nancy Binay as Minority Leader in the Committee on Women, Family
Relations and Gender Equality and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago for Foreign
Relations.
In the House of Representatives, the President of the Lady Legislators,-Representative
Gina de Venecia composed of ¼ of the Congress. She is a mother, who in losing her
only daughter in a fire has created a support network to deal with the pain of loss of
their children.
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JCR: Unfortunately, up to 50% of sexual assaults are
committed against girls under the age of 16. This is a
big challenge to confront it and this is the reason why
I would like to request you some advices to empower
people. What kind of suggestions and advices you
would like to tell us to develop a new vision of
human values? What is it the essence of theatre ther-
apy approach and how useful it is for people?
Cecile Guidote-Alvarez: We realize that domestic
violence and sexual harassment in the work site now
even with internet outreach are rampant in our
country equally so in the Asia-Pacific, Arab-African
region where there is practice of girl brides and
dowry system, the hidden crime against children, in-
cest and the spread of pedophilia. Our government
with civil society support has put up hotlines and
women’s desk in police stations among its remedial
measures.
It is most surprising that an EU report by the Vienna-based director Morten Kjaeran
still shows extensive human rights abuse with physical, sexual and psychological
violence against women. These aggressions result in long lasting deep seated effects
reflected in panic attacks, depression, difficulty in subsequent relations and even suici-
dal tendencies. All these must be addressed but is unfortunately systematically
under-reported. There is the stigma, the shame and fear of further reprisals. Society
itself must be more open in providing understanding for the victims. Media should
avoid sensationalizing reports of sexual violence into long running scandalous melodra-
matic news stories. There must be respect for their privacy. Obviously, their trauma
must be given the same cultural caregiving service to be able, after reflecting about
their atrocious experience to move on and be empowered through innovative culture-
based therapy response. This should be is beefed-up by medical and psychiatric guid-
ance. One can see where artists, duly oriented and concerned can be employed to
enhance the concept of social rehabilitation.
Through a painting, poem, song, dance or even an installation, allowing release and
imaginative approach to break the silence to calm tensions, to learn from and cast aside
the pain of past experience towards better self-esteem and envisioning a stronger, grasp
of their human right and discovery of their inner
strength and ability to move on.
The arts therapy encounter provides the bridging for
similar expressions that generate the support system
that engenders hope, the will to live and a mecha-
nism for safety and security. We re-enforce with the
Christian tenet that after the agony of Calvary and
agony is the ecstasy of resurrection.
JCR: Doing a link with your previous reflections,
Edgar Morin, as many other authors, talks in his
life´s work about the importance to reform thought,
education and politics to face the challenge of future
humanity´s governability. In this sense, it is obvi-
ously that word-society need a deep transformation
to achieve a sustainable development. Ideally, theatre
therapy could reflect a values-based in the new
humanism approach mentioned. Therefore, it would
promote “stakeholder value,” where stakeholders include the whole human race and the
planet itself. In shorts, all big thinkers of today are claiming a new and holistic vision
about the world-society and their interconnections. What do you think it is the role of
Global Citizenship Education proposed by UNESCO to achieve it? What kind of
changes we should introduce to raise awareness about our responsibility with global
problems?
CGA: Definitely, change of attitudes, habits, and mindsets is essential for reform
towards good governance to put a premium in affirming life rather than engagement in
destruction of life. Violence against mankind and Mother Earth is a human rights issue.
Caring, and sharing, dedication and perseverance to pursue a vision must be instilled
through early childhood education. The absence of greed or substituting this obsessive
desire for materialism with compassion and sensitivity to unfortunate conditions of
others is a key to fighting poverty. Empathy is the ability to feel with those suffering
atrocities, catastrophes, injustice and deprivation as well as the capacity to celebrate
achievements that better the condition of mankind in particular the triumph of the spirit
over adversity. We are deeply grateful to the citizens of the world for its expression of
sympathy and immediate humanitarian aid to the Philippines that was crystallized with
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the personal visit of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Taclo-
ban, Leyte.
UNESCO’s advocacy of global citizenship underscores the need to inculcate a sense of
kinship with the family of nations and as well as a sense of duty and responsibility to
advance the welfare of every citizen, regardless of race or creed to protect the planet
earth, our common home.
JCR: By the other hand, I also wanted you to ask about your beliefs, in order to
understand better the bridges that you do between culture and spirituality. Is theatre ther-
apy a thinking way faced with religions or, on the contrary, it is a new form of “entan-
glement” cultures?
CGA: Theatre therapy requires the appreciation and sensitivity in applying the inherent
qualities of theatre (the meeting ground of all the arts) for healing. Those in difficult
circumstances feel isolated and helpless. Theatre is a social art that engenders linkages,
participation, and social interaction. It brings hope like a “Balm in Gilead”. After con-
ducting theatre workshops since I was 15 years old beginning at the Orthopedic
Hospital under a Jesuit drama and media teacher, Fr. James B. Reuter pursuing this
mission when I founded the Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA in
1967); and carrying on in exile at La MaMa Theatre in a Brooklyn public school, work-
ing the trainable and educable students, many institutions like the prison and church
groups in ghettos, the deaf, the mentally challenged and even the delinquent at some
point. I have been elated and gratified that the crippled, the blind are transformed like
butterflies out of a cocoon.
Our theatre therapy experience is a vehicle to draw them out of despair and despon-
dency to help them express their fears and anxieties, to recall their experience of trauma
and portray through any artistic form synchronized with their dream of a better life and
hope for its fulfillment. They become ‘handicapable’ able to smile and continue
learning while earning, rebuilding their lives with fortitude and faith. They have to re-
call their own good experiences and use it as a foundation to develop the spiritual
strength to continue and find a sense of confidence and purpose of existence.
I believe in miracles and the power of prayers having undergone the persecution and
repression of a dictatorial regime and being victorious after a long difficult struggle for
freedom. Personally being afflicted with cancer, faith together with respect for my doc-
tor’s medical formula for recovery has been the spine for my journey of survival. This
is the wellspring of my conviction.
JCR: At this point, it is interesting note that famous quantum physics Basarab Ni-
colescu said that word “war” does not exists anymore in the vocabulary of trans-
disciplinary, because its goals are “understand the present world, which passes by
understanding the meaning of our life and our sense of death in this world which is
ours”. Then, seeing theatre therapy as interdisciplinary programs which were
recognized as UNESCO Artists for Peace for the cultural bridges developed… How do
you see the future of the humanity after all your long experience as exiled? Could we
achieve the SDG goals proposed in the agenda post-2015?
CGA: Our work in exile to help achieve a peaceful restoration of our democracy
provided me a stronger perspective that justice will prevail no matter how exceedingly
slow it may seem to grind. Nothing is impossible with God’s grace coupled with one’s
willingness to sacrifice with determination, patience and faith to pursue what is right
and defend the truth.
I am confident that if the social conscience is forged and global political leaders are con-
cienticized; the post 2015 agenda for sustainable development can be agreed upon and
can be realized. I believe that we all care for the future of our children and
grandchildren. Cooperation is absolutely essential to insure the survival and safety of
mankind through the health of our habitat. We cannot afford to fail. Self-interest must
be substituted by commitment for the common good.
JCR: I cannot imagine how such experience as exile changed your life and your way of
thinking. Maybe it is interesting mentioned now that, globally, around 603 million
women live in countries where domestic violence is not yet considered a crime. Have
you ever considered writing a theatre piece to empower women in such situation?
CGA: Returning to the Philippines— When I was in exile, convinced that the UN
Conference on Women in Mexico in 1980 was a historic milestone to put in the global
agenda. I was determined to participate and call attention to the marginalization of
women in all aspects of life. We are lucky in the Philippines there is a law that punishes
violence against women and children. The UN has passed the convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women. (CEDAW)
I have featured in our award-winning DZRH Radio Balintataw, the heroic lives of
ordinary women on nationwide broadcast & global webcast to inspire those ‘in trou-
ble’ and in doubt about stories of women in difficult circumstances that fought for their
right to a dignified life and strengthen their faith in Divine providence with the value of
a supportive family.
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One is a crippled who was able to serve as a senior official in the Solicitor-General’s
office. Another is a cancer victim after being cured had set-up a help cooperative for can-
cer patients called the I CAN SERVE FOUNDATION. An indigenous woman in Palawan
struggled to achieve education and after graduation, did not look for greener pastures in
the city life but remained to teach the tribal children.
A historical figure, the wife of Sultan Kudarat, jumped-off the cliff with her child rather
than be caught and used as a hostage by the Spanish conquistadores to allow Kudarat to
lead the Muslims in defying the unhampered occupation of Mindanao.
Beyond our local heroines, there is the path-breaking leadership of Dr. Irina Bokova, the
first woman to lead UNESCO on her second term is a champion of ‘new humanism’ with
her cross- disciplinary vigorous pursuit of education for all especially for girls.
JCR: I am agree that Dr. Irina Bokova is a big example for thousand of women, but you
are too. I am sure there will be thousands of people very fortunate to be around of your
transformative energy, because you work with passion and wisdom. Personally, I will con-
tact you again in the closed future, when I visit the Southeast Asia. Thank you very much
to share your reflections and your time in this special day. I am wondering if there is any-
thing I have not asked about that you wish I had?
CGA: Partnerships and linkages are so important in spreading the apostolate of theatre
that I have been engaged for 55 years reiterating like a Man-
tra, that we can win the war against poverty and pollution, crime
and corruption, disease and drugs, terrorism and tyranny. Not by
force but by art, not by compulsion but by persuasion through a
community spirit of caring and collaboration.
Dear Javier, You were incisive and comprehensive in your
questions, I was delighted to respond.
We look forward to your visit where we can have a stronger
exchange of best practices to realize our common vision that
culture with arts is a catalyst to realizing the UNESCO
‘Education for All Policy’, now given the mechanics for
implementation by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s push
for a Global Education First Initiative.
The assurance of the replication, echoing and adoption of the
Bohol Declaration that launched RAINBOW CROSS is guaranteed through the messages
from the Ocean Security Initiative led by its Chairman, Viktor Sebek, with Carlos Mauri-
cio Iriarte Barrios, Gobernador del Departamento del Huila, Colombia in the Latin-
American region, Professor Dr. Angela de Luca Rebello Wagener, Member of the OSI
Scientific and Academic Board, Potificia Universidade Católica Do Rio de Janeiro, Vini-
cio A. Cerezo, President 0f Guatemala from 1989 to 1991 as well as from leaders in key
points of the globe: from South Africa, Francois Baird, Chairman of Daniel J Edelman
Inc./ Policy Advisory Board Member: Ocean Security International; from Russia, Vtaly
Lyststov, member of OSI Scientific and Academic Board National Research Cen-
ter “Kucrhatov Institute” as well as the network of the Climate Institute in Washington
D.C USA, one of the oldest NGOs concerned with global warming headed by its Presi-
dent, Mr. John Topping, Jr. with Philippine Climate Change Commissioner Heherson Al-
varez as Chairman of its advisory board.
We are planning a global playwriting contest as a collaborative effort of the ITI-CIDC and
the International Playwrights Forum (IPP) that will be coordinated by our Secretary-
General of our Philippine ITI Center, an award-winning playwright, Dr. Isagani Cruz.
JCR: Thanks a lot Cecile, I will try to visit you in the following months to continue with
our dialogue. At the final point, what should it be your message to all the readers of
Global Education Magazine in the International Women´s Day?
CGA: Women constitute the other half of the world population. A
woman is a symbol for Mother Earth, for our motherland. It is a
portrait of love, the heart of the home. It is sad that the lament of
mothers so often heard in areas of armed conflict and places dev-
astated by ecological disasters have not been fully responded.
Justice, peace and sustainable development must prevail in all
corners of the world. Women must be harnessed in the center of
peace negotiations and good governance. We are grateful for the
concern of Global Education Magazine in linking women
through media to continue the struggle for gender equity, protec-
tion of their rights and family solidarity. We must sustain energy
and strength from our common vision of restoring the beauty and
bounty of our environment as we seek a safer, peaceful, sustain-
able world for our children up to the seventh generation.
JCR: Thanks a lot again Cecile for your inspiring words in the
interview.
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Ma maman fait parti de ses nombreuses femmes aux
grands cœurs, aux sourires enjôleurs et dotés d’un
très grand courage!
Quand je la regarde, elle exprime une vie remplie d’aventure, pleine
d’émotion, parfois de chagrin, et de malheur, mais je garde en mémoire ses
éclats de rire, et ses rencontres avec le bonheur.
Cependant, je sais aussi qu’avant d’arriver à la joie, elle a fait preuve de
sagesse, qu’elle a dû vaincre ses peurs, ses doutes, qu’elle a aussi traversé
des intempéries et combattu la souffrance.
Ma maman aurait pu être Simone de Beauvoir, cette femme française, née
à Paris en 1908.
« Mes vingt premières années se sont écoulées entre Notre-Dame-des-
Champs et Saint-Germain-des-Prés sans qu’il m’arrive rien d’exceptionnel
… » Écrit Simone de Beauvoir, qui allait devenir la compagne de Sartre (un
écrivain), l’auteure du Deuxième Sexe et, en 1974, la présidente de la Ligue
des droits de la femme.
En effet, cette femme bouleversante pour la génération d’avant-guerre était
une femme au grand pouvoir de liberté et écrivaine. Ces mots, ses lignes
écrites sur de nombreuses pages, traversent encore les océans et les langues
de notre monde.
Après de brillantes études, elle poursuit ses cours supérieures à la Sorbonne.
C’est à l’agrégation de philosophie qu’elle se présente en 1929, en même
temps qu’un jeune homme qui a pour nom Jean-Paul Sartre. Il est reçu
premier, tandis que Simone de Beauvoir sort deuxième du concours.
En 1943, elle publie son premier livre, l’Invitée…
English Version here
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Après quelques années de liaison amoureuse, elle passe
avec Sartre un « pacte de franchise » qui conjugue
indépendance et vérité l’un vis-à-vis de l’autre. Elle va
désormais en écrire les thèmes dans son œuvre. Ses
premiers romans enseignent que l’engagement peut seul
délivrer l’homme de la mauvaise conscience (le Sang des
autres, 1945) et que la mort, loin d’être une malédiction,
fonde la valeur de nos actes et de nos sentiments en leur
donnant une portée irréparable (Tous les hommes sont
mortels, 1946). Sa pièce les Bouches inutiles (1945) cher-
chent à définir une morale politique, dont le fondement
est la « joie d’exister » Pyrrhus et cinéas,1944 ; pour une
morale de l’ambiguïté, 1947.
Les voyages aux États-Unis (l’Amérique au jour, le
jour, 1948), puis dans la Chine de Mao (la Longue
Marche, 1957) conduisent Simone de Beauvoir sur les
routes de la dénonciation de la condition féminine.
Cette position est clairement assumée dans son essai de
1949, le Deuxième Sexe, texte fondateur du mouvement
féministe en France. À la même époque, elle tombe
amoureuse d’un écrivain américain rencontré à Chicago,
Nelson Algren ; elle lui envoie des Lettres passionnées, et
leur relation dure jusqu’en 1964.
Simone de Beauvoir sera encore solidaire du « Manifeste
des 343 », pétition signée par 343 femmes pour réclamer
la légalisation de l’avortement et rendue publique en
1971. Avec l’avocate et femme politique Gisèle Halimi,
elle sera ensuite la cofondatrice du mouvement Choisir,
dont le rôle sera déterminant dans ce combat.
Cette femme qui aurait pu être ma mère ou la vôtre est
décédée en 1986.
Une autre femme française et courageuse, une autre
femme appelée Simone sera souvent comparée à
l’écrivaine par sa force et sa ténacité.
Simone Veil est l’une des figures politiques françaises les
plus populaires. Légalisant l’avortement en 1975, elle a
été la première présidente du Parlement européen (1979)
et la première femme ministre d’État (1993).
Si j’étais né au Pérou, en Amérique latine, j’aurais pu
être le fils ou la fille de Jacqueline Domhoff. Pour-
quoi ?
Parce que sa force de vivre, sa force de vaincre tous les
démons est une force que j’aurais souhaité recevoir de
ma mère.
« Le rire est la meilleure façon de répandre l’amour, la
paix et c’est aussi un bon moyen de nous gué-
rir » raconte Jacqueline.
“ Vous avez un cancer ”, c’est un ainsi que l’histoire
émouvante de Jacqueline, commence. Cette phrase
formulée par son médecin, continu de lui expliquer
qu’elle est atteinte d’un cancer des ovaires.
Comment doit-on réagir face à cette terrible évidence ?
Jacqueline répond pour nous : « Avec des rires et sans
larmes ! »
Titulaire d’un Master reçu en Espagne, elle revient dans
son pays pour devenir responsable des relations
publiques. Jacqueline avait tout professionnellement et se
promettait un avenir fleurissant.
“Personne ne s’attend à avoir un cancer. J’ai réalisé à
quel point la vie peut prendre une sale tournure en moins
de deux seconds. La vie elle-même est une leçon, j’ai dû
faire un choix et j’ai choisi de donner un sens à ma vie.”
Après bien des tempêtes, Jacqueline s’efforce de
reprendre le cours de sa vie et être positif.
« Une amie m’a parlé de la thérapie liée au positivisme,
la joie de vivre et le bien-être qui conduit à une
amélioration du système immunitaire, juste ce don,
j’avais besoin ! . »
Jacqueline prend des leçons de Yoga du rire et devient
formatrice de la thérapie.
Le yoga du rire est un traitement sérieux pour les
personnes atteintes d’un cancer. Cette méthode permet
aux globules rouges d’augmenter en volume, et attaque
ainsi les cellules cancéreuses. Plus nous rions et plus nos
cellules cancéreuses s’éliminent par notre énergie
positive.
Jacqueline n’est pas seulement une survivante du cancer,
elle est aujourd’hui la fondatrice de l’hôpital de la joie et
un fil moteur dans l’amélioration émotionnels et
spirituels pour plus de 6 000 personnes dans différents
quartiers de sa ville Lima.
Son équipe bénévole apporte le bonheur et la thérapie du
rire dans différent centre hospitaliers, de maisons de
retraite ou de clinique. Le rire de Jacqueline a guéri
environ 1200 personnes sur la place Plaza Mayor de Li-
ma « nous voulons répandre le rire et ainsi augmenter la
positivité dans le monde. Lorsque vous changez votre
comportement, vous changez votre optimiste et vous
attirez le positivisme. C’est le meilleur moyen de
répandre l’amour, la paix et aussi de nous guérir. »
« En avant toutes », est le titre du livre de Sheryl
Sandberg, cette femme Américaine qui souhaite
l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes. Qui refuse
d’être une simple femme au foyer si ce n’est pas le choix
de sa destinée. Elle œuvre pour que les femmes accèdent
au pouvoir, qu’elles bénéficient des mêmes opportunités
que les hommes, qu’elles osent s’affirmer et assumer leur
choix : autant de défis que propose Sheryl Sandberg, à
partir de son expérience personnelle. Sheryl est un
exemple dans son pays, une figure parmi les cent
personnalités les plus influentes au monde selon le
Times. Sheryl est sincère et drôle. Souhaitant par son
humour aider les hommes à se révéler, à aider leur
épouse, à soutenir leur famille et à améliorer et gagner
en efficacité. À rendre la femme plus épanouie. Elle
conseille aux femmes, qu’elles peuvent être une femme,
une amante, une femme d’affaires, tout en étant une
bonne-maman et de ne pas s’oublier, mais plutôt de
gagner leur indépendance.
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Sheryl reverse les bénéfices de son livre à « Lean In »,
une fondation à but non-lucratif encourageant les
femmes à réaliser leur ambition, ainsi qu’à d’autres
organisations caritatives de soutien aux femmes.
Sheryl est une véritable femme révolutionnaire et un
vrai modèle à suivre pour notre génération future. Et
j’aurai été très fière d’être sa fille !
Naître en Suède et vivre près de Linda Forsell,
photojournaliste, pourquoi ?
J’aurai ainsi pu combattre à ses côtés contre la
violence domestique et psychologique.
Linda nous confie : « La violence conjugale est
répandue dans le monde. Elle ne fait aucune différence
de races ou de socio-économiques, ni cultuelles ou
encore religieuses. »
Linda raconte que les statistiques de la Banque
mondiale démontrent que la violence domestique,
frappe et tue plus de femmes que les accidents de la
circulation, le paludisme et la guerre réunissent.
Linda souhaitait changer ces horreurs.
Elle crée alors le projet « Cause du décès : femmes »,
une plate-forme où
elle dénonce et capture des photos témoignages de
femmes confrontées aux violences dans 10 pays, les
États-Unis, l’Afrique du Sud, l’Égypte, la Suède, le
Pakistan, le Mexique, le Brésil, le Congo, l’Espagne et
la Russie.
Linda photographie des militantes, des survivantes,
mais aussi de belles femmes qui racontent le drame et
la perte d’une proche. Elle immortalise les souffrances,
les horreurs que ces femmes vivent chaque jour.
La violence conjugale comprend l’agression physique,
sexuelle, verbale, émotionnelle et psychologique, et
nous pouvons rajouter à la liste les menaces et
l’intimidation. La plupart de ces actes ne sont pas
signalés de peur d’empirer la situation, aucune preuve,
car la plupart du temps les agresseurs ne laissent pas
de trace de leur passage ou tout simplement pas honte.
Selon l’ONU plus de 600 millions de femmes vivent
dans des pays ou la violence domestique n’est pas
considérée comme un crime !
Bien que la violence ait toujours été présente, le monde
n’a pas à accepter l’épouvantable.
“Les femmes et la sécurité routière : projet de société”
7 & 8 mars 2014 Palais des Congrès, Skhirat – Marra-
kech – Maroc.
Tous les jours, au Maroc et dans le monde beaucoup de
gens sont tués ou blessés sur les routes. Les hommes,
les femmes et les enfants qui vont à l’école ou au travail
à pied ou de jeunes conducteurs ne reviennent pas en
vie, laissant derrière eux des familles effondrées par le
drame. Selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, les
accidents sont parmi les dix principales causes de décès
chez les adolescents et les femmes adultes. Dans les
pays au revenu élevé ou moyen, les accidents sont la
principale cause de décès parmi la population féminine
entre 10 et 44 ans.
Considérant le rôle central et multiforme ont les
femmes, le Comité National pour la prévention des
Accidents de circulation (CNPAC) et la Nationale
Union des femmes du Maroc (UNFM), co-organiser le
1er Congrès mondial sur la femme et la sécurité
routière, sous le thème “femme et la sécurité routière :
projet de société. » Ce Congrès mondial fournira
également l’occasion de rappeler au monde les rôles
que les femmes et la société civile peuvent jouer dans le
domaine de la sécurité routière et les défis de l’avenir.
Et je pleure celle qui aurait pu me donner la vie, cette
écrivaine rebelle de l’Inde, déterminée, passionnée,
courageuse pour la cause des femmes Afghanes.
Sushmita Banerjee, indienne installée en Afghanistan,
infirmière en gynécologie, devenue écrivaine par
hasard et assassinée le quatre septembre 2013.
Sushmita s’est rendue célèbre en Inde avec sa
biographie devenu un best-seller adapté à Bollywood.
Elle raconte son aventure, son mariage en secret en
1990 avec Janbaz Khan, un Afghan. Sa rupture avec sa
famille causée par l’hostilité de son union. Elle quitte
l’Inde pour rejoindre son époux dans son pays
l’Afghanistan.
Une expérience tumultueuse, au cœur d’un pays ultra
conservateur et sensible à la propagande de l’islamisme
des Talibans.
Sushmita n’en devient pas pour autant une femme
soumise, elle était la seule femme dans l’ensemble de
Paktika se refusant a porter une burqa.
Sushmita ouvre une clinique et réclame la liberté
d’expression aux femmes de son village.
Revenue en Inde en 2003, après plusieurs menaces de
mort et condamnation de mort par un tribunal Taliban
local, elle écrit sa biographie révélatrice sur le Taliban.
La même année, Bollywood sort le film retraçant la vie
de Sushmita. Elle écrira quatre autres livres et dévoile
les horreurs des Talibans.
En 2013, Sushmita, décide de retourner en Afghanistan,
rejoindre son mari et sa belle-famille. Elle avait un
nouveau projet de livre, et même semble-t-il un
documentaire écrit sur la vie des femmes là-bas. Ses
assassins ne lui, on pas laissé le temps de continuer ses
démarches.
Elle est âgéeseulement de 49 ans, quand le destin
décide de lui donner des ailes et de la laisser s’envoler
vers d’autres horizons.
Nous garderons en mémoire la bonté de cette douce et
courageuse femme indienne.
Nous devons soutenir les femmes qui pendant neuf mois
donnent la vie à l’enfant de demain ! Et n’oublions pas
la journée mondiale du bonheur du 20 mars, qui résume
le visage de nos mères quand leur regard se pose
délicatement sur leur enfant.
Sources : Mujeres Mundi, le rôle des femmes dans le
développement de leurs communautés.
Nº 7 Ma maman fait parti de ses nombreuses femmes aux grands cœurs, aux sourires enjôleurs et dotés d’un très grand courage!

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Research Papers
Transversal Studies
Mujeres: Narrar lo público-privado
y la política del entre-lugar y el
entre-tiempo
María Antonia Miranda
González
Female Genital Mutilation - Truths
and Lies
Athanasia Zagorianou
Vidas Sumisas: la Mujer Indígena
Lorena Yañez Ruano
A n á l i s e s d a c o n t r i b u i ç ã o
harmônica da execução em piano
do “Concerto Italiano-971 de Bach”
Alexia Kapsampeli
Pedro Javier Gómez Jaime
Millennium
Development Goals
Inspiring Change With the
W o m e n ’ s D i r e c t o r s h i p
Programme
Amy Lau and Nick Marsh
Empoderamento feminino sem
fronteiras
Valdir Lamim-Guedes, Eli-
ane Santana, Luciene Silva
Souza, Paulo Guilherme
Martins da Rocha
Rape in Somalia: Women and
‘Double Victimisation’
Patrick Mugo Mugo
Turning Policy into Action: One
Adolescent’s On-the-Ground Ac-
tivism
Julia Carter
Global Education
Mulheres Rurais: Cooperação Internacional para Estudos Multidisciplinares de
Gênero, Educação, Cidadania e Responsabilidade Social da Universidade,
José Cláudio Rocha e Denise A. B. F. Rocha
The Story of the Green Lane Environmental Diary: Uniting Children and Cultures
through Environmental Education, Katy Orell
The Divine Nature of Women Naturally – A Challenge of 21st Century. Rashmi
Chandran
And the Walls Come Folding Down: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Building
Awareness, Balance, and Connection in Ourselves, Our Schools, in Our Communities,
and in Our World. Karen Melaas
Education and Suicide. Anna Barchetti Durisch
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