Barbara Gladysch
Barbara Gladysch (* 1940 ) is a German peace fighter. She is the founder of the “Mothers for Peace”. Since 1997 she has been campaigning primarily for Chechen children and refugees .
Awards
She has received multiple awards, including a. with honorary membership in the Committee of Russian Soldiers' Mothers, the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, the Bremen Peace Prize and the Mac Bride Peace Prize of the International Peace Office in Geneva. Her commitment was also recognized when she was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize in the 1000 Women Project . In 1997 she was awarded the Jan Wellem Ring by the city of Düsseldorf . It returned it on April 3, 2008 in protest against the attitude of Mayor Erwin, who refused to hoist the Tibetan flag on March 10 in solidarity with Tibet, as over 900 other cities in Germany have done. However, she got the ring back on September 9, 2018. She rejected the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, which was awarded to her in 2005. In 2010 she was nominated for the taz Panter Prize. At the end of 2016 she announced that she would not accept the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia because of the deportation of 10 refugees to Afghanistan.
exhibition
- “Chechnya’s Children - Chechnya’s Future” (updated June 2006)
Movies
- "Little Star", 2004, DVD, 18 min.
- “The Children of Grozny”, 2006, DVD, 29 min.
Fonts
- The little stars of Grozny. Children in the dirty war of Chechnya. Herder Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29004-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Gladysch gets Jan Wellem Ring back , wz.de, September 9, 2018
- ↑ www.expinger-herbert.de
- ↑ Because of Afghans' deportation: Peace activist rejects NRW Order of Merit , Rheinische Post , December 31, 2016
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| SURNAME | Gladysch, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German peace fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |