Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
Izabela Walentyna Jaruga-Nowacka (born August 23, 1950 in Danzig ; † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician and member of the Sejm in the II., IV., V and VI . Electoral term, former chairwoman of Unia Pracy and Unia Lewicy and Deputy Prime Minister in the two cabinets Marek Belka .
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Jaruga-Nowacka a degree in ethnography at the University of Warsaw , later she worked at the Institute for Science Policy and Higher Education (1974-1976) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (Institute of the Socialist countries) (1976 until 1986). She was one of the founders of Unia Pracy . As Deputy Prime Minister under Marek Belka, she was Minister for Social Policy from November 24, 2004 to October 19, 2005.
She had two daughters and was married to Professor Jerzy Nowacki , the rector of the Polish-Japanese University of Computer Technology in Warsaw .
Political career
During the People's Republic of Poland it did not belong to any political organizations. She began her political activities related to human rights issues , especially women's rights. Since the mid-1980s she was active in the Liga Kobiet Polskich (League of Polish Women). She was chairwoman of the national executive committee of this organization for two terms. In 1991 she joined the Ruch Demokratieyczno-Społeczny (Democratic-Social Movement), from whose list she ran unsuccessfully for the 1991 Sejm elections.
In 1993 she became a member of the Sejm for the Unia Pracy in the second electoral term. She was deputy chairwoman of the Sejm Commission on Education, Science and Technological Progress and was one of two female members of the Sejm delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. She also headed the Polish-Mongolian parliamentary group.
She was re-elected to the Sejm in 2001. They won their mandate with 23,666 votes in the constituency Gdynia - Słupsk from the list of SLD - Labor United . She was a member of the Commission for Culture and Media for two months. On November 29, 2001, she became State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, and one month later she assumed the office of Government Plenipotentiary for Equality between Men and Women.
In the Marek Belka government , she became a minister with no area of responsibility and - alongside Jerzy Hausner - second deputy prime minister . Her duties included coordinating the work of the Council of Ministers in the areas of social policy, equality between men and women and the fight against discrimination, as well as overseeing the activities of the Government Center for Strategic Studies and the Government Plenipotentiaries for Gender Equality and woman.
She left Unia Pracy on April 19, 2005 and joined Unia Lewicy , which she founded . She was a member of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz's campaign committee in the 2005 presidential election . In the 2005 elections to the Sejm , she was a member of the SLD's list for the third time. In December 2005 she resigned from Unia Lewicy.
In the elections to the Sejm 2007 she won a member of the list of the coalition Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats - LiD) for the fourth time with 14,827 votes . She was a member of the Sejm committee for social policy and parliamentary ethics.
In April 2008 she joined the Lewica faction .
Political opinions
She advocated equal rights, an ideologically neutral state and the safeguarding of equal opportunities through free, general access to education. Together with Zbigniew Bujak , she organized a campaign for a referendum to legalize abortion in 1991 . In 1996 it drafted a legislative proposal for the liberalization of regulations on family planning, abortion and protection of the human fetus.
death
On April 10, 2010, Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka was part of a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński who was to travel to the memorial in Russia on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre . In a plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military airfield , however, she and other high-ranking representatives of Poland were killed. Posthumously Jaruga-Nowacka was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) on April 16, 2010 .
Web links
- Profile at sejm.gov.pl (Polish)
Footnotes
- ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
Marek Belka | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Jerzy Hausner | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Michał Kleiber | Wojciech Olejniczak | Krzysztof Opawski | Krzysztof Pater | Andrzej Raczko | Wojciech Rudnicki | Marek Sadowski | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Swatoń | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Marek Belka | Marek Balicki (from 2004) | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Mirosław Gronicki (from 2004) | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Andrzej Kalwas (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Krzysztof Opawski | Jacek Piechota (from 2005) | Józef Pilarczyk (from 2005) | Tomasz Podgajniak (from 2005) | Adam Daniel Rotfeld (from 2005) | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (2004–2005) |
Marian Czakański (2004–2005) |
Jerzy Hausner (2004–2005) |
Wojciech Olejniczak (2004–2005) |
Krzysztof Pater (2004) |
Andrzej Raczko (2004) |
Marek Sadowski (2004) |
Jerzy Swatoń (2004-2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaruga-Nowacka, Izabela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaruga-Nowacka, Izabela Walentyna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2010 |
| Place of death | Smolensk , Russia |