Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Women peacemakers born today
- 1893 Muriel Lester born Leytonstone, Essex (d. 1968). "Mother of World Peace"; pacifist writer and lecturer; Socialist; settlement worker. Opposed World Wars I & II as early member of Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1914; friend of Gandhi; interned by British in Trinidad, repatriated to Holloway prison in England, 1941.
- 1895 Whina Cooper (née Te Karaka) born Hokianga, North Island, New Zealand (d. 1994). "Mother of the Nation" Maori leader of hikoi, nonviolent march against loss of lands, 1975; first president Maori Women’s Welfare League, 1951.
- 1930 Felicia Langer born Tarnow, Poland. Israeli human rights activist lawyer; recipient of Alternative Nobel Prize, 1990.
- 1934 Judi Dench born Heworth, North Riding Yorkshire, England. British actress; supporter of Survival International for protection of tribal peoples.
- 1946 Sonia Gandhi (née Maino) born Lusiana, Italy. Nonviolent Indian leader of Congress Party, 1998; United Progressive Alliance, 2004.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1897 First issue of La Fronde, feminist pacifist journal, Paris.
- 1940 Nonviolent woman Ambus Salaam went with Gandhi to Karachi to quiet riots with love.
- 1964 UN Human Rights Convention on Marriage effective.
- 1968 Eleanor Roosevelt got first UN Human Rights Prize.
- 2010 Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, human rights activist murdered in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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