Krishna Ahooja-Patel

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Krishna Ahooja-Patel (born March 15, 1929 in Amritsar , India ; † December 27, 2018 near Ottawa , Canada ) was an Indian trade unionist, women's rights activist, publicist and pacifist who worked in various United Nations (UN) organizations was.

Life

Krishna Ahooja-Patel was born in 1929 as the oldest of five siblings in Amritsar, northern India. The family belonged to Sikhism and Hinduism . Her mother stayed at home, her father was a progressive businessman. In 1942 the family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai ), where, as a 13-year-old student , they heard a speech by Mahatma Gandhi , whose ideas deeply impressed them.

From 1947 to 1962 Ahooja-Patel lived in Great Britain , where she studied law and worked for the BBC . She married an Indian journalist who also worked for the BBC and whom she later divorced. From 1962 to 1987 she worked for the International Labor Organization (ILO), a specialized agency of the United Nations , for which she initially worked as a legal advisor in Ethiopia and later moved to Geneva . In 1974 she represented the ILO at a conference on women and education in Cambridge and was then responsible for the interests of women workers at the ILO. From 1977 to 1987 she published the magazine Women's Network .

In the 1990s, Ahooja-Patel was Deputy Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) in the Dominican Republic and President of the Women's World Summit. In 1995 she traveled with a “peace train” organized by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) to the 4th  UN World Conference on Women  in Beijing and joined the WILPF.

From 2000 onwards, Ahooja-Patel and the WILPF worked on translating UN Security Council Resolution 1325 into as many languages ​​as possible in order to spread it around the world and thus increase the pressure on the UN to actually implement the resolution. The resolution emphasizes the important role women play in conflict avoidance and resolution and in peace processes. Other central topics of WILPF are peace education, women's rights, disarmament and strengthening the UN. In 2001 Ahooja-Patel was elected the first non-white president of the WILPF. She devoted herself to this task until 2004.

In 2002 she witnessed the riot between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat , in which over 1,000 people were killed. As a result, in 2003 she organized a seminar for peace and reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims. Together with her second husband, she directed the Institute for Economic Justice and Development at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad , India. In December 2004 she was elected President of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva, an umbrella organization to which more than 35 international NGOs belong. In 2005 Ahooja-Patel was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 women project.

On December 27, 2018, Krishna Ahooja-Patel died after a brief illness in a senior citizen facility near Ottawa, Canada, where she had spent the last years of her life.

Quote

Krishna Ahooja-Patel is considered to be the author of the quote:

"Women are half of the world's population, do two-thirds of the work, get one-tenth of the income, and are the owners of one per cent of the property."

Women make up half of the world's population, do two-thirds of the work, get a tenth of the income and own one percent of the wealth.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krishna Ahooja-Patel. Retrieved July 12, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Charlotte Hooij: Remembering Krishna Ahooja-Patel. In: WILPF. Retrieved July 12, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ https://www.epw.in/author/krishna-ahooja-patel
  4. ↑ https://www.wilpf.org/remembering-krishna-ahooja-patel/
  5. ↑ https://www.epw.in/author/krishna-ahooja-patel
  6. ↑ https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/krishna-ahoojapatel
  7. ↑ https://www.epw.in/author/krishna-ahooja-patel
  8. ↑ https://www.wilpf.org/remembering-krishna-ahooja-patel/
personal data
SURNAME Ahooja-Patel, Krishna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian trade unionist, women's rights activist, publicist and pacifist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Amritsar , India
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2018
Place of death near Ottawa , Canada