John Key John Phillip Key (born 9 August 1961) is the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand, in office since 2008. He has led the New Zealand National Party since 2006. Born in Auckland before moving to Christchurch when he was a child, Key attended the University of Canterbury and graduated in 1981 with a bachelor of commerce. He began a career in the foreign exchange market in New Zealand before moving overseas to work for Merrill Lynch, in which he became head of global foreign exchange in 1995, a position he would hold for six years. In 1999 he was appointed a member of the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until leaving in 2001. Personal life Key was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to George Key and Ruth Key (née Lazar), on 9 August 1961. He attended Aorangi School, then Burnside High School, and earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting from the University of Canterbury in 1981.[3][5] He has attended management studies courses at Harvard University.[6]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela She was married to Nelson Mandela for 38 years, including 27 years during which he was imprisoned. Although they were still married at the time of his becoming president of South Africa in May 1994, the couple had separated two years earlier. Their divorce was finalised on 19 March 1996,[2] though Winnie Mandela continued to be a presence in Mandela's life in later years despite his remarriage in 1998. Early life[edit] Marriage/children[edit] She met lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in 1957. Apartheid[edit] Winnie Mandela carved her own name in struggle lore. In 1985, Mandela won the Robert F. Criminal convictions and findings of criminal behaviour[edit] Her reputation was damaged by such rhetoric as that displayed in a speech she gave in Munsieville on 13 April 1986, where she endorsed the practice of necklacing (burning people alive using tyres and petrol) by saying: "[W]ith our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country Legal problems[edit]
David Shearer David James Shearer, MBE (born 28 July 1957) is a New Zealand politician and former United Nations worker. He spent nearly 20 years working for the UN, managing the provision of aid to countries including Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq.[1] In 1992 Shearer was named (together with his wife) as New Zealander of the Year by the New Zealand Herald.[2] The following year he was appointed as Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the British New Years Honours list. In 2009 he won the Mount Albert by-election becoming a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand for the Labour Party. He was the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party from December 2011 to August 2013. Early life[edit] Shearer was born and brought up in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe. Public service and Non-Government Organisation career[edit] Member of Parliament[edit] Opposition leader[edit] Personal achievements[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Albert Lutuli Inkosi Albert John Lutuli (commonly spelled Luthuli;[1] c. 1898 – 21 July 1967), also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi, was a South African teacher and politician. Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid. He was the first African, and the first person from outside Europe and the Americas, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Early life[edit] The third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898. Teaching[edit] On completing a teaching course at Edendale, near Pietermaritzburg, Lutuli accepted the post of principal and only teacher at a primary school in rural Blaauwbosch, Newcastle, Natal. Tribal chief[edit] Anti-Apartheid activist[edit]
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. Obama was re-elected president in November 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013. Early life and career Obama was born on August 4, 1961,[1] at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children) in Honolulu, Hawaii,[2][3][4] and would become the first President to have been born in Hawaii.[5] His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry.[6] His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya.
AFRIQUE DU SUD # L’implant contraceptif sera désormais gratuit pour toutes les femmes En 1994, l’Afrique du Sud a autorisé ses habitantes à interrompre gratuitement leurs grossesses au cours des 12 premières semaines et jusqu’à 20 semaines en cas de danger physique ou mental (pour la femme ou le fœtus), de viol ou d’inceste mais également si la grossesse met en péril la situation sociale ou financière de la femme. Ces dispositions très favorables au bien-être des femmes a cependant ses limites, elles font face à des résistances sociales (stigmatisation et harcèlement). De plus, seuls 24% des centres de santé publics offrent ce service et les centres privés coûtent très cher, jusqu’à 3200 rands soit 2,5 fois le salaire mensuel moyen (hommes et femmes confondus). Une étude a démontré que la moitié des femmes sud-africaines recourant à l’IVG le font dans la clandestinité ce qui représente des risques très importants en matière d’hygiène, de respect des pratiques sécurisées et d’accompagnement des femmes. Espérons que son accessibilité soit totale. sources Like this:
Kate Sheppard Katherine Wilson Sheppard, also known as Kate, (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934)[a] was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (the movement to allow women to vote in New Zealand), and is the country's most famous suffragette. She also appears on the NZ ten dollar note. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, Sheppard's work had a considerable impact on women's suffrage movements in other countries. Early life[edit] Kate Sheppard was born Catherine Wilson Malcolm in Liverpool, England to Scottish parents Jem Crawford Souter and Andrew Will Malcolm. In 1885, Kate Sheppard became involved in establishing the New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union, part of the larger temperance movement. Woman's suffrage movement[edit] Discovering that much of the support for moderation came from women, the Temperance Union increasingly became active in advocating the cause of women's suffrage, an area in which Sheppard quickly became prominent.
Art Against Apartheid | Vinay Lal Before Nelson Mandela, there was Albert Luthuli. A majestic figure, a hereditary Chief of the Zulus, Luthuli was clearly the most inspirational figure of his generation in South Africa, and his untimely death at the age of 69 in circumstances that can only be described as suspicious robbed South Africa of its most creative exponent of nonviolent resistance to apartheid. Luthuli had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1945, and he rose to become president of the provincial Natal branch of the ANC in 1951; the following year, Luthuli was among those who orchestrated resistance to the notorious pass laws. His part in the Defiance Campaign earned him the opprobrium of the government, and he was offered the choice of renouncing his membership in the ANC or being stripped of his Chieftainship. It is under Luthuli that Mandela, who was his deputy and president of the ANC branch in Transvaal, attained political maturity. All images reproduced courtesy of the artist, Ronald Harrison.