WASINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today welcomed to Capitol
Hill Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program
of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ambassador
Hunt moderated a discussion featuring three women leaders who work
for peace and justice throughout the world, often risking their own lives.
Representatives and guests heard from Ida Kuklina, Ph.D., Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,
Ph.D, and Atema Eclai, Ph.D candidate, three members of the Women
Waging Peace network, an initiative founded by Ambassador Hunt.
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Ida
Kuklina, Ph.D., Secretary of the Analytical and Information Commission
for the Union of the Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia, will present
the work of this leading human rights group that is affecting military
reform in Russia and has become a model replicated throughout the former
Soviet Union.
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Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow at the Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, has worked with
the Mothers of the Guguletu 7 to push for recognition and reparations from
South Africa’s apartheid regime.
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Atema
Eclai, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University,
has worked with mothers’ groups in her native Kenya and throughout sub-Saharan
Africa. She has worked with women’s development groups, ecumenical
religious leaders, and chaired sessions for young African women at the
UN Women’s conference in Nairobi.
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