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 Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: Nominate Someone for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize |
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My personal nominee:
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E. Catherine Hamlin, AC (24/01/24) is an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist, the co-founder of Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital with her late husband Dr. Reg Hamlin. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital is the world's only medical center dedicated exclusively to providing free fistula repair surgery to poor women suffering from childbirth injuries. Dr. Hamlin has been recognized by the United Nations agency UNFPA as a pioneer in fistula surgery for her development of techniques and procedures for obstetric fistula treatment.
Most patients are destitute when they arrive and cannot afford to pay for the surgery, so the surgery is provided for free. In addition to the main hospital in Ethiopia's capital, Dr. Hamlin has opened three new Hospitals in the Ethiopian cities of Bahr Dar, Mekele and Yirgalem, and she is opening two more in Harrar and Metu. The Hospital is also a global center of expertise in fistula repair and trains surgeons from around the world. In 2008, the Hospital will move more aggressively into the important area of fistula prevention with the opening of the Hamlin Midwifery College in Addis Ababa. The growing network of Hospitals -- the Hamlin Fistula Hospitals -- and the Midwifery College are supported largely by private donors in Australia, the UK and the United States. The largest of the dedicated support organizations is the Fistula Foundation, located in Santa Clara, California.
Dr. Hamlin was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. After graduating from the University of Sydney Medical School in 1946, she (then Catherine Nicholson) took a resident position at the Crown Street Women's Hospital under the medical directorship of Dr. Reginald Hamlin, whom she later married. In 1959, Catherine and her husband traveled to Ethiopia to establish a school of midwifery in Addis Ababa. Fifteen years later, they founded Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. Dr. Hamlin, her late husband and their team of doctors and staff have treated more than 34,000 women, returning health and dignity to otherwise often forgotten women.
Dr. Hamlin has been awarded honorary fellowships in the medical associations of Australia, England and the United States. In 1995, Dr. Hamlin was awarded Australia's highest honour, being made a Companion of the Order of Australia. She is the author of the best-selling book The Hospital by the River. In 2004, she received the coveted "Best Practices in Global Health Award" from the Global Health Council. She has been described as a modern day "Mother Teresa" in an editorial by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.
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Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights activist, who gained international celebrity for his attempted citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001, on charges of torture and other human rights abuses.
Tatchell was selected as Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981, and was denounced by party leader Michael Foot for supporting extra-parliamentary action against the Thatcher government; though the Labour Party subsequently allowed his selection, when he ran in the Bermondsey by-election in February 1983. In the 1990s, he became a prominent gay equality and LGBT campaigner through the direct action group OutRage!, which he co-founded. He has tackled a wide variety of human rights issues, and is a frequent contributor on such subjects in print and through broadcast media authoring thousands of articles and six books. In 2006, New Statesman readers voted him sixth on their list of "Heroes of our time".[1][2]
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He's mostly known as a gay-rights proponent, but that doesn't really begin to cover the width and depth of his activism. He's been involved a LOT of different issues, and always seems to me to be very even-handed. He dishes it out to anyone he thinks deserves it, across the ideological and religious spectrums.
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mateomiguel
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I think Catherine Hamlin's work is amazing and wonderful, although I just read about it here. I've never heard of her before. But perhaps there is another Nobel prize which fits her better? The Peace prize seems to be about international relations rather than health.
This Tatchell guy sounds like a great dude. I wish I could try a citizens' arrest of a notable world villain. It woulda been better if he was successful, though. |
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