[E-rundbrief] Info 865 - Alternative Nobelpreise 2009

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 865 - The Right Livelihood Awards (S): The Right 
Livelihood Awards 2009 - Alternative Nobelpreise 2009.

Bad Ischl, 19.10..2009

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2009 Right Livelihood Awards: Wake-up calls to secure our common future

The Right Livelihood Award Jury gave the following motivation for its 
choice of laureates:

"Despite the scientific warnings about the imminent threat and 
disastrous impacts of climate change and despite our knowledge about 
solutions, the global response to this crisis is still painfully slow 
and largely inadequate. At the same time, the threat from nuclear 
weapons has by no means diminished, and the treatable diseases of 
poverty shame our common humanity."

"The 2009 Right Livelihood Award Recipients demonstrate concretely what 
has to be done in order to tackle climate change, rid the world of 
nuclear weapons, and provide crucial medical treatment to the poor and 
marginalised."

www.rightlivelihood.org/

The 2009 Right Livelihood Awards go to four recipients:

David Suzuki

David Suzuki (Honorary Award, Canada) "for his lifetime advocacy of the 
socially responsible use of science, and for his massive contribution to 
raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public 
support for policies to address it".


Three recipients receive cash awards of EUR 50,000 each:

René Ngongo

René Ngongo (Democratic Republic of Congo) is honoured "for his courage 
in confronting the forces that are destroying the Congo's rainforests 
and building political support for their conservation and sustainable use".

Alyn Ware

Alyn Ware (New Zealand) is recognised "for his effective and creative 
advocacy and initiatives over two decades to further peace education and 
to rid the world of nuclear weapons".

Catherine Hamlin

Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia) is awarded "for her fifty years dedicated to 
treating obstetric fistula patients, thereby restoring the health, hope 
and dignity of thousands of Africa's poorest women".

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David Suzuki

David Suzuki is one of the most brilliant scientists, and communicators 
about science, of his generation. Through his books and broadcasts, 
which have touched millions of people around the world, he has stressed 
the dangers, as well as the benefits, of scientific research and 
technological development. He has campaigned tirelessly for social 
responsibility in science. For the past 20 years, he has been informing 
the world about the grave threat to humanity of climate change and about 
how it can be reduced.

Life and career choices

David Suzuki was born in Canada in March 1936 to parents of Japanese 
descent. Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, the family was 
interned, and later, after the war, settled in Ontario. With a PhD in 
zoology from the University of Chicago, Suzuki went to the University of 
British Columbia (UBC) in 1963, where he became Professor of Zoology six 
years later, specialising in genetics.

During his scientific work, Suzuki became more and more concerned about 
both the relationship between science and society, and the impacts of 
human activities on the natural world. He says: "After a great deal of 
soul-searching I concluded that all scientific insight has the potential 
to be applied for good or bad and the only way to minimise the 
misapplication of science is an informed public." While continuing his 
university professorships until 2001, Suzuki gave up his laboratory 
research in the late 70s to become one of the most important 
communicators of natural science in the world and "an environmental 
icon" as the 2005 Right Livelihood Award Recipient Tony Clarke has 
described him.

 From 1979 until today, Suzuki has been the anchorman of "The Nature of 
Things with David Suzuki", a prime time science programme on Canadian 
television, which has been sold to more than 80 countries. He has 
produced numerous other TV shows and series, and has written 43 books, 
whereof 17 for children.
The David Suzuki Foundation

In 1988, Suzuki's 5-part radio series about the global ecosystem crisis, 
It's a Matter of Survival, produced letters from 16,000 listeners asking 
what could be done. Suzuki's response was to set up, in 1990, with his 
wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF). Since its 
inception, DSF has become a nationally recognized and trusted voice on 
issues of the environment, one that is increasingly asked to speak on 
matters of critical importance.

In 2008, the David Suzuki Foundation reviewed its progress over the 
first two decades of its existence, and decided to focus its future 
efforts on five key areas.

1. Reconnecting with nature - Helping Canadians to become aware of their 
profound interdependence with nature.
2. Protecting natural systems - Working to ensure that systems are in 
place to protect the diversity and resilience of Canada's marine, 
freshwater, terrestrial and atmospheric ecosystems.
3. Transforming the economy - Encouraging a transition of Canada's 
economy towards increased well-being, fairness and quality of life, 
while recognizing the finite limits of nature.
4. Living neighbourhoods - Empowering citizens to live healthier, more 
fulfilled and just lives.
5. Protecting our climate - Holding Canada to account for doing its fair 
share to avoid dangerous climate change.

In 2009, the David Suzuki Foundation had 58 staff members and an annual 
budget of nearly CND 7 million, which comes from numerous foundations, 
and tens of thousands of individual supporters.

Climate change

For many years, Suzuki has been at the forefront of the climate debate, 
informing the public about the extreme urgency to act which follows from 
the best scientific evidence in the field. Suzuki has called Canadian 
Prime Minister Harper an "outlaw", because he is not following the Kyoto 
protocol although Canada has ratified it. At a speech in 2009 at McGill 
University, he said: "When you have politicians who are advised by 
scientists how bad climate change is going to hit, and by economists how 
bad it is for the economy, and they still do not take action, that is an 
intergenerational crime." Together with a group of engineers, Suzuki is 
now working on a study to see if and how Canada can get its energy 
entirely from renewable sources.
Suzuki on biotech

In his own discipline of genetics, Suzuki has played a crucial role in 
informing and warning the public about the weak and risky scientific 
basis of many of today's commercial applications of genetic engineering. 
  With science writer, Peter Knudtson, he wrote of his concerns in 
Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life. In an article Biotechnology: 
Panacea or Hype? he writes: "Every scientist should understand that in 
any young, revolutionary discipline, most of the current ideas in the 
area are tentative and will fail to stand up to scrutiny over time. In 
other words, the bulk of the latest notions are wrong. The rush to 
exploit new products will be based on inaccurate hypotheses and 
questionable benefits and could be downright dangerous. The discipline 
is far from mature enough to leave the lab or find a niche in the 
market. The problem is that those pushing its benefits stand to gain 
enormously from it."
Suzuki's role in Canadian society

An important aspect of Suzuki's and DSF's work is his relationship with 
Canada's First Nations. He used many of his broadcasts to campaign for 
their rights of decision over their ancestral resources, and has been 
formally adopted by three tribes, and made an honorary chieftain of one.

In a 2009 poll on 'Who does Canada Trust Most?' in the Canadian Readers' 
Digest, Suzuki was ranked no. 1. Suzuki holds a large number of honorary 
doctorates and has received Canada's highest honour, Companion to the 
Order of Canada.

Quotation

"Conventional economics is inevitably destructive and unsustainable 
because it ignores nature's services as 'externalities'. But nature 
maintains the biosphere as a healthy place for animals like us. Growth 
is just a description of the state of a system, yet economists equate 
growth with progress as if growth is the very purpose of economics. So 
we fail to ask 'how much is enough?', 'what is an economy for?', 'am I 
happier with all this stuff?'. Steady growth forever is an impossibility 
in a finite world and our world is defined by the biosphere, the zone of 
air, water and land where all life exists. Endless growth within the 
biosphere is like the goal of cancer within our body. We need to 
internalize the services of nature in an ecological economics system and 
work towards 'steady state economics.'"

David Suzuki

www.davidsuzuki.org

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René Ngongo

"...for his courage in confronting the forces that are destroying the 
Congo's rainforests and building political support for their 
conservation and sustainable use."

The Congo rainforest, in global importance second only to that of the 
Amazon, is under grave threat from the aftermath of war, population 
pressure and corporate exploitation. Since 1994, including through the 
civil war from 1996-2002, René Ngongo has engaged, at great personal 
risk, in popular campaigning, political advocacy and practical 
initiatives to confront the destroyers of the rainforest and help create 
the political conditions that could halt its destruction and bring about 
its conservation and sustainable use.

Life and career

René Ngongo was born in Goma in October 1961, and took a Bachelor in 
biology from the University of Kisangani in 1987. It soon became clear 
to him that the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical forest in 
the world, is under very grave threat - both because of the poverty of 
local people who cut the forest to satisfy their need for food and 
fuelwood and because of commercial logging and mining.

In 1994 Ngongo founded, and became the national coordinator of, OCEAN 
(Organisation concertée des ecologistes et amis de la nature). OCEAN 
started as an environmental NGO in Kisangani, but has managed to reach 
out to the entire country through the work of volunteers. OCEAN's main 
activities are agroforestry, urban tree-planting, reforestation 
nurseries for the most threatened species, distribution of improved 
cooking stoves, monitoring of the exploitation of natural resources, 
education, especially through radio and TV broadcasts, and the advocacy 
and lobbying on local, national and international level.

Ngongo has also worked both for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and 
the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Since 2008, 
Ngongo has been working for Greenpeace to build up the new Greenpeace 
DRC office. He handed over the leadership of OCEAN to a younger 
colleague and became a member of its Administrative Council instead.

Promoting sustainable land use

The first focus of Ngongo's work was to promote sustainable land use 
models that would allow the local population to satisfy their need for 
food and fuelwood, and to receive a better income, without destroying 
the forest. From 1992 to 2000, Ngongo had a weekly radio programme on 
nature protection and the impact of deforestation called 'L'Homme et son 
Environnement - MAZINGIRA'. At the same time, Ngongo developed 
pedagogical tools and provided trainings for farmers to learn about 
alternatives to the destructive "slash and burn" agriculture. He created 
in Kisangani demonstration fields for sustainable agricultural 
techniques like agroforestry (growing food in the forest without 
destroying it) and taught locals how to save on fuelwood through 
improved cooking stoves.

Ngongo also co-ordinated the creation of a seedling plantation with 
20,000 seedlings of the most exploited tree species in the Eastern 
province. This plantation provided trees for several events such as 
'green city' (Ville Verte) during which tree planting took place in 
abandoned parks, along avenues and in schools. Children were actively 
involved in these events to ensure widespread dissemination of the 
environmental messages.

Exposing destructive mining and logging

Throughout the wartime years of 1996-2002 Ngongo was actively monitoring 
the exploitation of natural resources by the different warring parties. 
Many international organisations and research institutes recognised 
OCEAN as a key source of information. For instance, Ngongo's research on 
illegal mining operations (diamonds and other minerals) contributed to 
the UN Security Council expert panel report on the illegal exploitation 
of natural resources in the DRC. Ngongo is convinced that the struggle 
for the control over natural resources was the main driving force of the 
conflicts in the DRC that left millions of people dead.

Since the civil war ended, the destruction of the Congo rainforest has 
accelerated even more, because the DRC is now safe terrain for the big 
forestry multinationals to operate. OCEAN became the key organisation 
exposing irresponsible logging practices as well as weak governance and 
a lack of transparency in the forest and mining sectors. Not 
surprisingly, Ngongo has experienced a considerable amount of threats, 
manipulation and intimidation.

Today, the rainforests of the DRC are at a crossroads. In January 2009, 
the government finished a legal review of 156 forest concessions (on 20 
million hectares) and concluded that 91 of them had been illegal. 
However, in September 2009, several companies whose contracts had been 
declared illegal by the joint ministerial commission in January 
continued their activities in total impunity. Thus, it is one of 
Ngongo's priorities to campaign for the implementation of the 
government's decision and for respecting the moratorium on new logging 
activities in the forests of the DRC. He is arguing that the further 
destruction of the Congo rainforest would put local communities, who 
depend on the forest for their livelihoods, at great risk. It would also 
further accelerate global warming and make the DRC more vulnerable to 
its effects.

Capacity building

Much of Ngongo's work is dedicated to strengthening the knowledge and 
capabilities of NGOs, politicians and local authorities in the 
Democratic Republic of Congo to effectively protect the forest. He has 
coordinated training sessions for national and provincial politicians on 
the forest code. OCEAN is working with local communities affected by 
road construction projects to make sure that their voices are heard. In 
addition, Ngongo's ongoing support of grassroots initiatives provided a 
strong basis for the development of the 'Reseau des Resources 
Naturelles', a Congolese umbrella organisation for civil society groups 
working on mining and forestry issues. Ngongo has also organised many 
consultations with politicians, donors and industry representatives to 
promote sustainable forestry practices.
Quotation
"The forests of the DR Congo and the Congo Basin, the planet's second 
'lung', are a precious heritage that should be preserved. Those forests 
should not be considered merely as raw material to be exported and 
should neither only be seen as a carbon reservoir. Before anything else, 
it is a living environment, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a spiritual 
landmark for millions of forest communities and aboriginal peoples, 
those who are our forest's main guardians. Destroying the forest means 
destroying lifestyles that are worth as much as others... Those 
extraordinary forests, with a unique biodiversity, also represent a 
major asset for the DRC and the entire planet when it comes to the fight 
against climate change. Valorising them as standing forests brings about 
a quarter of the answer on how to defuse the threat of climate change. 
But unfortunately, with 13 million hectares disappearing each year, what 
future are we handing over to future generations? And in the meantime, 
so many meetings, speeches, good intentions... It is time to act and 
mobilise the necessary resources in order to guarantee an ecologically 
responsible and socially balanced future for our forests..."

René Ngongo

www.greenpeace.org/afrique

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Alyn Ware

Alyn Ware is one of the world's most effective peace workers, who has 
led key initiatives for peace education and nuclear abolition in New 
Zealand and internationally over the past 25 years. He helped draft the 
Peace Studies Guidelines that became part of the New Zealand school 
curriculum, initiated successful programmes in schools and thousands of 
classrooms throughout the country, and has served as an adviser to the 
NZ government and the UN on disarmament education. He was active in the 
campaign that prohibited nuclear weapons in New Zealand, before serving 
as the World Court Project UN Coordinator which achieved a historic 
ruling from the World Court on the illegality of nuclear weapons. Alyn 
Ware has led the efforts to implement the World Court's decision, 
including drafting resolutions adopted by the UN, bringing together a 
group of experts to prepare a draft treaty on nuclear abolition which is 
now being promoted by the UN Secretary General, and engaging 
parliamentarians around the world through Parliamentarians for Nuclear 
Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

 From kindergarten teacher to the United Nations

Alyn Ware was born in New Zealand in March 1962. He acquired a Bachelor 
of Education and a Diploma of Kindergarten Teaching from Waikato 
University in 1983. After a year of kindergarten teaching, Alyn 
established the Mobile Peace Van Society and for five years taught and 
co-ordinated all aspects of its peace education programme in 
pre-schools, primary schools and secondary schools. This included 
teaching in hundreds of classrooms; training teachers; co-founding the 
Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme, initiating War Toy Amnesty 
events, launching Our Planet in Every Classroom; distributing teaching 
resources to every school through the School Journal; and working with 
the Department of Education to develop the Peace Studies Guidelines.

During that time Alyn was also active in the campaign to make New 
Zealand nuclear-weapon free. This included chairing the Hamilton 
nuclear-weapon-free zone committee, co-founding Peace Movement Aotearoa 
and leading the 1987 Peace Walk for a Nuclear Free New Zealand. In 1998 
he travelled to the USA and USSR to share New Zealand's successful 
anti-nuclear campaigns with nuclear disarmament initiatives and 
organisations in those countries.

In 1990 he established the Gulf Peace Team office in New York and 
lobbied the UN Security Council on peaceful solutions to the Gulf 
Crisis. In 1991 he worked for the World Federalist Movement monitoring 
developments at the UN on the proposed International Criminal Court in 
preparation for the launch of the Coalition for an International 
Criminal Court (CICC) - which was successful in establishing the ICC. 
Alyn led the CICC Working Group on Weapons Systems during the ICC 
negotiations.

 From 1992-99 he was the Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on 
Nuclear Policy (LCNP), in which capacity he was also the World Court 
Project UN Co-ordinator. Under his leadership, the project was 
successful in getting the General Assembly to adopt a resolution 
requesting an opinion from the International Court of Justice on the 
legality of nuclear weapons. He also assisted a number of countries in 
their cases to the International Court of Justice in order to ensure a 
successful outcome. In its opinion, the Court declared the threat or use 
of nuclear weapons to be generally illegal and laid down a general 
obligation of states to achieve complete nuclear disarmament under 
international control.

Current positions and peace initiatives

In 1999, after helping establish a human rights presence in East Timor 
and Indonesia under Peace Brigades International, Alyn returned to New 
Zealand to take advantage of the peace and disarmament opportunities 
arising with the new Labour government under Prime Minister Helen Clark. 
Although based in New Zealand, this work required extensive travel, 
particularly to North America, Europe and Asia. This included ongoing 
work at the United Nations including the drafting and presentation to 
the UN Security Council of a Judges and Lawyers' Appeal on the 
Illegality of the Preventive use of Force - one of the initiatives which 
helped ensure that the UN Security Council did not authorise the US-led 
invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Alyn currently holds the positions of:

     * Director of the Wellington office of the Peace Foundation, a 
peace education activity in New Zealand schools and communities;
     * Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau, in which he is 
most active on their Disarmament for Development Program;
     * Consultant to the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and the 
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) for 
which he is responsible for the programmes promoting Nuclear Weapon Free 
Zones and a Nuclear Weapons Convention;
     * New Zealand Coordinator of the World March for Peace and 
Nonviolence which started in New Zealand on 2 October 2009 and is 
travelling around the world promoting nuclear abolition, an end to war 
and the prevention of violence at all levels of society;
     * Co-Founder and International Coordinator of Parliamentarians for 
Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), which engages 
legislators from across the political spectrum in nuclear disarmament 
issues and initiatives; and
     * Board member or advisor of a number of other international 
organisations including Abolition 2000, Middle Powers Initiative, Peace 
Boat, Mayors for Peace and the Global Campaign for Peace Education.

Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament

In 2002, Alyn established Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation 
and Disarmament (PNND), a project of the Global Security Institute and 
the Middle Powers Initiative. PNND educates and engages parliamentarians 
in initiatives at the national, regional and international levels.

At the national level, Alyn helps legislators to draft parliamentary 
resolutions, engage in parliamentary debates, provide input into 
national policy decisions, adopt legislation, and participate in civil 
society actions and initiatives relating to nuclear non-proliferation 
and disarmament.

At the regional level, Alyn ensures that PNND is active in the 
development of nuclear-weapon-free zones, and in reducing the role of 
nuclear weapons in alliances such as NATO, ANZUS (Australia and the US) 
and the Japan-US and South Korea-US alliances.

At the international level, Alyn leads PNND activities to engage 
parliamentarians in key bodies such as the UN General Assembly, 
Conference on Disarmament, UN Security Council and NPT Review 
Conferences. PNND also assists parliamentarians to be active on specific 
issues and initiatives including nuclear testing, fissile materials, 
prevention of an arms race in outer space, and achievement of a nuclear 
weapons convention.

Advancing a Nuclear Weapons Convention

In 1995 Alyn co-founded Abolition 2000, an international network now 
numbering over 2000 endorsing organisations that calls for negotiations 
to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention - a treaty to prohibit and 
eliminate nuclear weapons under effective international control. 
Following the 1996 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on 
the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Alyn drafted a UN 
resolution on implementation of the ICJ opinion through negotiations for 
a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Since then, this resolution has attracted 
every year the votes of some 125 countries in the UN General Assembly - 
including from the New Agenda Countries (Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, 
New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden), the Non-Aligned Movement, and 
some of the nuclear-weapons possessing countries - China, India, 
Pakistan and North Korea.

Alyn then brought together a group of experts to draft a Model Nuclear 
Weapons Convention - a 70-page document outlining the legal, technical 
and political measures required to achieve and sustain a 
nuclear-weapons-free world. This Model Nuclear Weapon Convention has 
been circulated and promoted by the UN Secretary-General.

Ware is also one of two principal authors of the book Securing our 
Survival: the Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, published by IPPNW 
and distributed to diplomats, academics, scientists, parliamentarians, 
mayors, non-governmental organisations and media around the world.

The links between peace education in schools and international peace

Alyn Ware believes that his peace education work in schools and his 
international peace and disarmament work are intricately linked. He says:
Quotation
"The principles of peace are the same whether it be in school, at home, 
in the community or internationally. These are primarily about how to 
solve our conflicts in win/win ways, i.e. in ways that meet all peoples' 
needs. My kindergarten teaching was thus good training for my 
international peace and disarmament work. And when I am back in the 
classroom, I can help students see that the ideas and approaches they 
are using to solve their conflicts are similar to the ideas and 
approaches we use at the United Nations to solve international conflicts."

Alyn Ware

www.pnnd.org

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Catherine Hamlin

Catherine Hamlin came to Ethiopia from Australia in 1959 to work as an 
obstetrician and gynaecologist at a hospital in Addis Ababa. With her 
husband Reginald she pioneered the surgical treatment of obstetric 
fistula. The Hamlins built their own hospital in Addis, where women are 
treated free of charge. The facilities include reception hostels for the 
women, who come from all over the country, and a rehabilitation centre 
for the badly injured. They have also established regional centres to 
make the treatment more widely accessible and a midwifery school to help 
prevent obstetric fistula occurring in the first place.

Catherine Hamlin was born in Sydney in January 1924. In 1959, she left 
Australia together with her husband Reginald in response to an 
advertisement to work as obstetrician/gynaecologist at a hospital in 
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The couple was horrified by the prevalence of 
obstetric fistula, a condition arising from prolonged obstructed labour 
that leaves the affected woman incontinent of urine, with 20% suffering 
bowel incontinence as well. Permanently leaking bodily fluids, they 
often become social outcasts, without hope, and live in the most 
miserable conditions. Obstetric fistula, formerly common throughout the 
world, is now almost non-existent in industrialized countries, thanks to 
better obstetric care, but is still prevalent in developing countries.

Pioneering fistula treatment

At the time the Hamlins started their work, there was little treatment 
available for the condition anywhere in the world, but the Hamlins 
developed surgical techniques, began to operate on their patients and 
eventually achieved a 93% success rate. Soon, women started arriving at 
the hospital from all over the country hoping for the operation. Small 
hostels were built on the hospital's grounds to accommodate them as they 
awaited their turn. All treatment was - and still is - free of charge.

Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital

Recognising that they needed their own hospital, the Hamlins went 
fundraising abroad. Eventually, in 1974, Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital 
was opened. Since then, it has become a global centre of expertise in 
fistula repair and also trains surgeons. In addition to the main 
hospital in the capital, there are now, in 2009, five regional hospital 
centres in other Ethiopian cities to make the treatment more widely 
accessible. Their doctors treat 2,750 women per year - about 29 % of new 
fistulas in Ethiopia - and have treated over 32,000 women in total. They 
have also built Desta Mender - 'Village of Joy' - a rehabilitation 
centre for women so badly injured that they need long-term care.

Hamlin also focuses on the important area of fistula prevention with the 
establishment of the Hamlin Midwifery College in Addis Ababa. The 
midwives will be placed in rural health clinics around the country in 
order to prevent obstetric fistula in the first place, to raise the 
quality of care in child-birth generally and to lower the high maternal 
death rate.

The hospital and associated activities have about 400 staff and cost 
more than EUR 1 million per year to run. Catherine Hamlin, while still 
also operating on patients, spends a lot of time travelling the world to 
raise awareness about the condition and its disastrous effects on the 
lives of its victims, and to fundraise for her clinics and midwifery 
school. Funds come from eight international partner organisations (that 
in Sweden has 70,000 members) and major charities. The Australian 
Government is also a key supporter.

Honours and books

Hamlin has been awarded many medical honorary fellowships, and a number 
of civil honours, including Companion of the Order of Australia (1995) 
and the Rotary Award for Understanding and Peace (1998). In Australia, 
her book The Hospital by the River became a best-seller.

Quotation
"Nothing can equal the gratitude of the woman, who wearied by constant 
pain and desperate with the realization that her very presence is an 
offence to others, finds suddenly that life has been given anew and that 
she has once again become a citizen of the world."

Catherine Hamlin chose to quote the British fistula surgeon, Professor 
Chassar Moir of Oxford, who summed up the ethos of fistula treatment

www.hamlinfistula.org

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