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Sunita Viswanath
Sunita Viswanath is an Indian-American activist who has worked in women's and human rights organizations. She co-founded the human rights organizations Women for Afghan Women, Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, and Hindus for Human Rights. Early life and education Viswanath was born in Chennai, India. She moved between London and Chennai during her early age, and later moved to the US when she was 19. Viswanath received a BA in mathematics from Douglass College, Rutgers University and a MA in sociology from SNDT Women's University. Activism Women for Afghan Women In 2001, Viswanath co-founded the nonprofit humanitarian organization Women for Afghan Women (WAW). In 2002, Viswanath edited the volume of essays, ''Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future.'' Initially founded to support the Afghan community in Queens, WAW expanded in 2005 to support the rights and needs of women in Afghanistan. In 2011, Viswanath was awarded the Feminist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.Stoeckel, Althea"Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a Private university, private liberal arts college but it has evolved into a coeducational public university, publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Messinger
Ruth Wyler Messinger (born November 6, 1940) is a former American political leader in New York City and a member of the Democratic Party. She was the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City in 1997, losing to incumbent mayor Rudy Giuliani. Biography Life Born and raised in New York, Messinger attended the Brearley School. She graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1962 and received a Master of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma in 1964. She is married to Andrew Lachman, her second husband, and has three children. She is formerly the President and CEO of American Jewish World Service, an international development agency. Politics Messinger was a delegate to the 1980 Democratic National Convention and served on the New York City Council from 1978 to 1989, representing the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In the City Council, she proposed extending rent control from individuals to businesses. From 1990 to 1998, she served as Manhattan borough presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass College Alumni
Douglass may refer to: Surname * Douglass (surname) * Douglass family, family of Frederick Douglass ** Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), noted abolitionist Given name * Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974), Canadian actor in early Hollywood * Douglass Houghton (1809–1845), American geologist and physician * Douglass Morse Howell (1906 – 1994), American papermaker and artist * Douglass Lubahn (1947–2019), rock bassist * Douglass Montgomery (1907–1966), American actor *Douglass North (1920–2015), American economist and Nobel Prize laureate *Douglass Wallop (1920–1985), American novelist and playwright * Douglass Watson (1921–1989), American actor Places In the United States: * Douglass, Kansas * Douglass (Memphis), a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee * Douglass, Texas * Douglass (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. * Douglass Township (other) Elsewhere: * Mount Douglass, Antarctica * Douglass (lunar crater), named after A. E. Douglass * Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Chennai
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American Women's Rights Activists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Voice For Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP; קול יהודי לשלום ''Kol Yehudi la-Shalom'') is a left-wing Jewish activist organization in the United States that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. Founding, staff, and advisory board JVP was formed in September 1996. Stefanie Fox is the executive director; as of 2016, there were 27 other staff members. Members of the advisory board include Tony Kushner, Sarah Schulman, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Wallace Shawn. Positions JVP opposes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and criticizes what it describes as the "severe human-rights violations that Israel engages in every day." It "endorses neither a one-state solution to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, nor a two-state solution". JVP supports the Palestinian right of return while opposing the Law of Return and the Birthright Israel movement. The organization also supports the boycott against I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of ''Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found'', which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, ''Maximum City,'' was published in 2004. The book, based on two and a half years research, explores the underbelly of the city. He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''National Geographic, Granta'', ''Harper’s'', ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', '' The New York Review of Books'' and Scroll.in, and has been featured on NPR’s ''Fresh Air,'' and NPR's ''All Things Considered''. Mehta has also written original screenplays for films, including ''New York, I Love You'' (2008) and '' Mission Kashmir'' with novelist Vikram Chandra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-governmental Organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit organization, nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in humanitarianism or the social sciences; they can also include club (organization), clubs and voluntary association, associations that provide services to their members and others. Surveys indicate that NGOs have a high degree of public trust, which can make them a useful proxy for the concerns of society and stakeholders. However, NGOs can also be lobby groups for corporations, such as the World Economic Forum. NGOs are distinguished from International organization, international and intergovernmental organizations (''IOs'') in that the latter are more directly involved with sovereign states and their governments. The term as it is used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masuda Sultan
Masuda Sultan (Kandahar 1978) is an Afghan American entrepreneur, memoirist, and international human rights advocate. Biography Sultan arrived in the United States at the age of five and was raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens . She attended local public schools and attained her master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of ''My War at Home'', a memoir reflecting on her life as an Afghan American, in which she speaks of conflicts arising from her need for independence in the scheme of Afghan traditional culture, for example, her arranged marriage with an Afghan man. She is one of the founders oWomen for Afghan Women Masuda returned to Afghanistan in December 2001 and learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid 60 miles north of Kandahar. Masuda was featured in and contributed to the making of the documentary ''From Ground Zero to Ground Zero'' in which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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