Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has written her autobiography, A Life for Liberia. A few days after her birth, she says at the beginning, an old man visited her parents to look at the newborn and wish her luck. And said, “This child will go to the top.” He was right: the girl became the first woman in Africa to attain the office of head of state through an election. In 2011, she received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Category: Women
Lebanese television journalist May Chidiac was the victim of a bomb attack. The Christian and critic of Syrian government lost one arm and one leg. But she continues to fight for freedom in her home country.
The “grande dame” of political street theater, turned 80.
In the wild 1960s, she belonged to the avant-garde of American and European off-theatre. Born the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi in Germany, her family fled to New York to escape the Nazis. Now, Judith Malina has been touring the world with her legendary Living Theatre for half a century.
August 5, 2005
Neither whores, nor submissive
“Honor” and gang rapes: Everyday life in French immigrant quarters. Young Muslim women in the working class suburbs of France have two choices: slut or servant. Algerian-born Fadela Amara is trying to offer them a third option: respect.
In her account of her experiences, “Die bröckelnde Festung” (“The Crumbling Fortress”), Gabriele Stötzer comes to terms with her time in the notorious GDR women’s prison Hoheneck.
Vera Bohle from Berlin is the only German woman who clears mines in international crisis areas. Her last assignment was in Afghanistan.
The only female helicopter pilot in the German Armed Forces was in coma for two years after a suicide attempt
In a farewell letter, the model soldier made serious accusations against her superiors. Is it true what friends and acquaintances suspect? Is the Bundeswehr not interested in solving the case?
The physician in exile in Pakistan is not even intimidated by the Taliban. She built schools and hospitals for women in Afghanistan.
Sima Samar ©Rebecca Hillauer