I received the email below from OneWorld - and strongly encourage you to participate! These kinds of awards can change the lives of the winners. Kabissa has been a partner of OneWorld for many years and we are greatly appreciative of their contribution and early innovations in social media for social change. -Tobias
Update: VOTING NOW CLOSED...
Today is the last day to vote for OneWorld.net's Person of the Year. Cast your vote now!
The slate of candidates is below. The winner gets additional publicity
for themselves and their cause. It can be an important boon for them,
so please vote.
And if there are other people we should know about, by all means, tell us!
Thanks again for everything you do as part of the global OneWorld
network. I'll be back in touch soon to announce the results and let you
know how we'll be following up with the winner this year.
Jeffrey Allen
Managing Editor, OneWorld.net, United States
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| MEET THE FINALISTS |
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 Dozens
of humanitarian aid workers were targeted and killed around the world
this year. In some countries, particularly severe surges of violence
have forced aid organizations to reconsider or suspend life-saving and
community building operations.
 Since
the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, Patricia Smith Melton has devoted her
life to voicing the unheard stories of women living, coping, and taking
action to build peace in all corners of the globe. Her latest endeavor
focuses on Israeli and Palestinian women.
 Sexual
violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been called "the worst
in the world," and it has only gotten worse in recent months. But amid
the daily threats to their life and communities, women are organizing
to support each other and demand justice and protection.
 Francisco
Soberón has worked to find justice for Peruvians for over 25 years, and
the human rights group he founded has been instrumental in bringing
former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to trial for alleged crimes
against humanity.
 An
independent grassroots movement of Iranian women and men is educating
women about their fundamental human rights and steadily becoming a
powerful force for women's equality in the patriarchal country.
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 Pamela
Adoyo stands calmly and resolutely at the epicenter of Kenya's AIDS
epidemic. Her women's group is helping care for the sick, impede the
disease's spread, and stitch back together a community torn apart by
the epidemic.
 The
mayor of one of Portugal's smallest and poorest municipalities has
launched one of the largest green business initiatives in the world,
and now he's spearheading an eight-country project to create
communities run entirely on renewable energy.
 Martin
Fisher is a businessman, an activist, and a mentor, among many other
things. But first and foremost, he's an inventor and a humanitarian --
one whose inventions have helped hundreds of thousands of people move
themselves and their families out of poverty.
 After
studying and working in the United States, Ashwin Naik has returned to
his native India to launch a set of rural health care facilities that
he hopes will help bridge the massive gap between the rich and poor in
the rapidly developing country.
 With
the signatures of over 62 million Pakistanis committed to the Yeh Hum
Naheen Foundation's anti-terrorism campaign, founder Waseem Mahmood has
become a leader in a movement promoting Islam as a peaceful, tolerant
faith.
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Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 9 December, 2008 - 20:30
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