4th April 291: Election of the new President (Republic of Kosovo) = Mrs Vjosa OSMANI-SADRIU (1982) wikipedia
Forum international virtuel 4-7 avril = contact presse Astrid PERTUISEL + 33 (0)7 86 00 31 50 – clef.femmes gmail.com et site de la Coordinationa Françaisez = https://www.clef-femmes.fr/
A woman is President of Tanzania: Samia SUHULU (born 1960)
Gloria Steinem, world-renowned feminist, journalist and activist once explained “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist, nor to any one organization, but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” So make International Women’s Day your day and do what you can to truly make a positive difference for women.
a website = https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About
The next (and 7th) Director-General of the World Trade Organization is Ngozi OKONJO-IWEALA (1954) from Nigeria (her biography on WIKIPEDIA) – She received an international fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), that supported her doctoral studies
Yulia Borisovna NAVALNAYA (Russian: Юлия Борисовна Навальная, IPA: [ˈjulija nɐˈvalʲnɐja]; née Abrosimova (Абросимова); born 24 July 1976) is a Russian public figure, economist and the wife of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. She has been described in media as the “First Lady” of the Russian opposition and as a hypothetical candidate for the leadership of the opposition and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), presidency of the country and the State Duma.[1][2][3] (more on wilipedia)
On January 20th, many women were seen in charge:
and artists:
Hope this year will be better than 2020. Let’s try …
20th January: WOMEN power in Washington
A very bad news = the lawyer Ebru TIMTIK died in prison, after a hunger strike (7th January)
A new United States Secretary of the Interior = Deb HAALAND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haaland. Wonderful!
Scotland: scotland-becomes-first-nation-to-provide-free-period-products-for-all
Germany will require companies to put women executives on their boards
France: a website about “news” = https://www.lesnouvellesnews.fr/ (only in French so far)
USA : many women in the next government!
From Hungary: Katalin KARIKO (now in the USA)
Moldova: A woman elected president in 2020: Maia SANDU (1972) her biography on wikipedia.
Germany: A researcher medical woman with a Turkish origin = Özlem TÜRECI is working hard on a vaccine against SARS-CoV-
Iran:
USA: What about Kamala HARRIS? see wikipedia. She was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala GOPALAN, a biologist had arrived in the U.S. from Tamil Nadu in India in 1958 as a 19-year-old graduate student. Her father, Donald J. HARRIS arrived in the U.S. from British Jamaica in 1961. As children, she and her sister visited their mother’s family in Madras (now Chennai) several times. A TRUE CITIZEN of the WORLD!
Congratulations to Jennifer_Doudna (USA) and Emmanuelle_Charpentier (FR) for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Influential women; Bilkis (IN) 82, one of the 100 people quoted by TIME
Young feminists in France … and Laure ADLER published a new book about older people “la Visiteuse de la Nuit”
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) has found violations of the right to equal pay and the right to equal opportunities in the workplace in 14 out of 15 countries (see this link)
