LIVE STREAMING from the press conference with Malala Yousafzai, #NobelPeacePrize 2014. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize. Malala won along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist. The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway’s former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland - on Friday … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION™ – Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
August 31, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this powerful female presence that graced our earth, living her life ahead of her times. WOMAN of ACTION™ Chien-Shiung Wu "I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted "laws" of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act … [Read more...]
Love after Love, Derek Walcott – WOMEN in RECOVERY(Self-Love)
June 15, 2012 by
Love after Love LYRICS The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the … [Read more...]
Wangari Maathai Award 2012
May 12, 2012 by
Wangari Maathai Award 2012 Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION™ – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
April 1, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this awe inspiring WOMAN of ACTION, through our Tribute here. WOMAN of ACTION™ Daw Aung San Suu Kyi "She inspired a generation who were desperate for change." -Martin Smith about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi was born in 1945 in Yangon, Myanmar, what was formerly recognized as Rangoon. She was educated in India and England, where she attended the University of Oxford. There, she … [Read more...]
WOMEN of ACTION – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
December 2, 2010 by
A Celebration of Women is elated to pay Tribute and Celebrate the Life of another Amazing WOMAN of ACTION. This woman rose above many adversities to make her dream happen, a life in medicine and research, during the 1940's and on....and, not only did she achieve, she changed our world for the better, through her research and study. Our World needs more Women of this Calibre, please enjoy this Tribute to a wonderful mind, genuine soul and tenacious spirit. WOMAN of ACTION Rosalyn … [Read more...]
