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Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 – July 7, 1981), born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. [ 3 ]
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) [a] was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. [1] She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly nine months.
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman of Woman's Peace Party, president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and 1931 Nobel peace laureate. [12] Fannie Fern Andrews (1867–1950) – American educator, writer, social worker and pacifist
Mairead Maguire [3] [6] (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [7]
International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually as a focal point in the women's rights movement. ... Women and Peace: Women Managing Conflicts 2002
The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was a women-only peace camp formed to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca Army Depot to Europe in the fall of 1983.
The "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" [1] (later known as "Mothers' Day Proclamation") by Julia Ward Howe was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world. . Written in 1870, Howe's "Appeal to womanhood" was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...