Femmes actrices de développement

 

26/02/2008	Jeanne d'Arc; conversations with the sky
	"I saw them with these eyes, as well as I see you." That was one of the answers Jeanne D'Arc gave to the judges who interrogated her when she was accused of witchcraft some months before her tragic death in a bonfire. (...)

26/02/2008	Mother Teresa, pure love and humanitarian work
	If you say her real name, none is going to know about who are you talking about. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is known all over the world because of her pure love and humanitarian work as Mother Teresa. (...)

21/02/2008	Frida Kahlo, icon from the Mexican culture
	Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon's biography is full of pain. After a really dramatic accident she would undergo as many as 35 operations, mainly on her back and her right leg and foot, including the amputation of one of her legs. Her back had a terrible smell “like a death dog” and she was hung from her head in order to fortalice her column. (...)

12/02/2008	Amina Lawal, símbolo de la lucha contra la lapidación
	Puede que sea el nombre propio que más se asocie al de “lapidación”. Amina Lawal consiguió gracias a la presión internacional ser absuelta y no morir lapidada. Su culpa, haber tenido un hijo fuera del matrimonio. (...)

12/02/2008	Amina Lawal, symbol of the fight against the lapidation
	Word “lapidation” can be without any doubt completly associated with her Amina Lawal got thanks to the international pressure to be acquitted and not to die stoned. Its fault was to have a baby outside the marriage. (...)

12/02/2008	Marie Curie, a life of achievements
	Marie Curie's life is full of achievements: she discovered polonium and the radium in 1898, she was the first woman in obtaining the Nobel prize and in her case for two times. Her daughter Irene also received the Nobel prize of chemistry in 1935. (...)

12/02/2008	Mileva Maric, A woman behind Einstein Theory of Relativity?
	Mileva Maric found in Albert Einstein someone with whom share its love by the physics. She was the first woman in receiving the master's degree and according to the investigator E.H. Walker the fundamental ideas of the theory of the relativity are hers that made his husband world-wide famous. (...)

12/02/2008	Rigoberta Menchú, “Limin” for friends
	At her house and at her village she is well-known as “Limin”, but for the rest of the world she is Rigoberta Menchú, part of the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture in Guatemala. (...)

01/02/2008	Aung San Suu Kyi, democracy ideas inside a military dictatorship
	Burma lives in a military dictatorship since 1962, without celebrating elections for 18 years, and with thousands of political prisoners in jail. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace prize in 1991, is under house arrest 12 of the last 18 years because of her defends to the democracy, from its political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).  (...)