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Shulamit King ( Hebrew שולמית קניג) (* 1930 in Jerusalem , Palestine ) is the founder and general director of the People's Movement for Human Rights (PDHRE). In 2003 she received the United Nations Human Rights Award .

Life

Shulamit König was born in Jerusalem in 1930. She is married to Jerry Koenig and has 3 sons and 4 grandchildren. She studied engineering and management at Columbia University . She initially worked on the development of products to save water. She has served as labor judge for women's labor relations, executive director of the Israel- India Friendship League, and elected chairperson for the civil rights movement in Israel. From 1973-1977 Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin nominated her as a member of the National Committee for the Status of Women. Koenig was a co-organizer of the New Outlook, Israel- Palestine Conference in Washington, DC (November 1980). She directed the human rights training program in Arab and Jewish schools and was co-founder of Shalom Achshaw in 1978 . In 1978 she founded Kol Koreh, a center for civil rights and democratic leadership (until 1982). She designed the Israeli-Palestinian art exhibition It's Possible , which was shown in Germany, Japan and the USA.

Since 1988 she has been the founder and general director of the People's Movement (Decade) for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) in New York . She fought for the UN Decade of Human Rights from 1995 to 2004. Her focus is on training in human rights. Another goal for them is the establishment of human rights cities, ie cities that actively implement human rights according to the rules of the PDHRE. There are now 24 cities u. a. Rosario in Argentina (1997), Nagpur in India , Thiès in Senegal and Graz in Austria (2001).

Definition of a human rights trainer

According to Ms. König, the following definition applies:

“A human rights trainer is a person, woman or man, who is able to awaken and encourage critical thinking and systematic analysis from the gender perspective on political, civil, economic, social and cultural viewpoints within the framework of human rights with the students Actions to lead to social and economic transformation. "

Awards

Fonts

  • Schulamit König, Mado Spiegler, Ispahan Merali: Passport to dignity . PDHRE, October 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The people's advocate. The Hindu, January 13, 2000, accessed January 7, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Living for Justice. Human rights. Environmental Protection. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Renner Institute, January 30, 2008, p. 3 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 5, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.renner-institut.at  
  3. ^ Schulamith Koenig: The Beginning of an Historic Process: Sustainable Human Rights Communities to Claim and Secure Our Right to Be Human. University of Minnesota , 1997, accessed January 5, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Kick-off event of the human rights city of Graz. (No longer available online.) ETC - European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy, June 2, 2001, archived from the original on November 9, 2007 ; accessed on January 5, 2009 (German, English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.etc-graz.at
  5. ↑ A narrative CV. (DOC; 29 kB) PDHRE, November 19, 2003, accessed on January 5, 2009 (English).
personal data
SURNAME King, Shulamite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King Shulamith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Director General of the People's Movement for Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Prize Winner
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem