Monika Hauser

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Monika Hauser (March 2004)

Monika Hauser (born May 24, 1959 in Thal , Switzerland ) is a specialist in gynecology . In the 1990s she founded the women's rights organization medica mondiale with the aim of providing medical and psychological help to women who were traumatized by the war. She has received numerous awards for her initiative, including the Right Livelihood Award 2008, known as the Alternative Nobel Prize .

Life

Monika Hauser was born in Switzerland in 1959 and grew up there. As the daughter of parents from South Tyrol , she is an Italian citizen. She studied medicine in Innsbruck and Bologna and graduated in 1984. In 1998 she successfully completed her training as a specialist in gynecology. She is married to Klaus-Peter Klauner, with whom they have a son. Today she lives in Brühl (Rhineland) .

From 1992 to 1994, Hauser realized the women's therapy center Medica Zenica in central Bosnia with the support of Bosnian specialists . The team supported the women in coping with the traumatic experiences. The association medica mondiale eV was founded and the commitment was extended to Kosovo , then Afghanistan and numerous other countries. Today, medica mondiale supports women and girls around the world who have experienced sexualised war violence in conflict areas.

In 2000, Hauser took over the management of medica mondiale . As part of her work, she is committed to removing taboos from society on the subject of war rape and passing this on to local women at various seminars.

Awards

Hauser has received numerous renowned prizes and awards for her work, including the Prize Women in Europe - Germany in 1995 , the Gustav Heinemann Citizen Prize , the Annette Barthelt Prize and in 2000 the Peter Beier Prize of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , as well as the Rotary Award Trentino-South Tyrol .

Of the ARD - Tagesthemen was 1993 Woman of the Year chosen. Hauser is one of the 1,000 women in 2005 by the initiative of world peace Women ( Peace Women Across the Globe ) for the Nobel Peace Prize have been nominated. In 2007 she received the Integration Prize of the Apfelbaum Foundation and in 2008 the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) .

Hauser refused to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in October 1996. She wanted to make her protest against what she believed to be the premature start of the repatriation of Bosnian civil war refugees to Bosnia-Herzegovina .

In 2009 Hauser was awarded the title “Political Personality of the Year” by the South Tyrolean Society for Political Science . The magazine Reader's Digest honored Hauser with the European Woman of the Year 2011 award for “her worldwide commitment to victims of sexual violence in war zones”. For 2012 Monika Hauser received the state award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia “for her outstanding humanitarian work”. In 2017 she received the Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association and in 2019 the Medal of Honor of the State of Tyrol .

literature

  • Chantal Louis: Monika Hauser - Don't stop starting. A doctor on duty for women traumatized by the war. Rüffer & Rub, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-907625-41-5 .
  • Erica Fischer: In the beginning there was anger. Monika Hauser and medica mondiale. A women's project during the war. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02641-0 .
  • Medica mondiale eV, Karin Griese (ed.): Sexualized war violence and its consequences. Handbook to support traumatized women in various fields of work. Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-935964-48-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ epd: 1000 women are recognizable ( memento from June 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 16 kB), June 29, 2005
  2. ↑ Integration award . Apple Tree Foundation, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Excellent Cologne doctor. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau, October 1, 2008, accessed on April 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Borchert: Fight for raped war victims. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau, October 1, 2008, accessed on April 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Biography on fembio.org
  6. ↑ Monika Hauser is "European of the Year 2011". In: presseportal.de from January 13, 2011
  7. ^ Website of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on October 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ Detlev Hüwel: The prize money goes to our project in Liberia. In: RP Online . November 14, 2012, accessed on January 20, 2013 (interview with Monika Hauser).
  9. ↑ https://www.tirol.gv.at/tirol-europa/protokoll/ehrenzeichen/

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SURNAME Hauser, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian specialist in gynecology and founder of the women's rights organization medica mondiale
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Thal , Switzerland