Stasa Zajovic
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Stanislava Staša Zajovićwas born in 1953 in Nikšić, Yugoslavia. She is co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black, Belgrade.
As an Activist she has a lot of experience, from organizing street actions to working with refugees, women, etc.
She also initiated several women's network, like Women’s Peace Network,The International Network of Women’s Solidarity against War/International Women in Black Network, Network of Conscientious Objectors and Anti militarism in Serbia, The Coalition for a Secular State, etc.
She organized a lot of educational activities focusing on women’s human rights, women’s peace politics, interethnic and intercultural solidarity, women and power, and women and antimilitarism.
Staša Zajović is the author of numerous essays, articles and supplements in local, regional and international media, magazines and publications on women and politics, reproductive rights, war, nationalism and militarism, women’s resistance to war, and anti militarism (1992–present).
She has been nominated for and she won a range of prizes and awards. Among these are the following:
Millennium Peace Prize, Honorary Citizenship of Tutin, Honorary Citizenship of Granada, etc.
Nominated for The Nobel Peace Prize
as part of the 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign in 2005, also in 2005 and 2007 she was nominated for Newspaper Person of the Year by the daily Danas
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Biography
She speaks Spanish, Italian and English.As an Activist she has a lot of experience, from organizing street actions to working with refugees, women, etc.
She also initiated several women's network, like Women’s Peace Network,The International Network of Women’s Solidarity against War/International Women in Black Network, Network of Conscientious Objectors and Anti militarism in Serbia, The Coalition for a Secular State, etc.
She organized a lot of educational activities focusing on women’s human rights, women’s peace politics, interethnic and intercultural solidarity, women and power, and women and antimilitarism.
Staša Zajović is the author of numerous essays, articles and supplements in local, regional and international media, magazines and publications on women and politics, reproductive rights, war, nationalism and militarism, women’s resistance to war, and anti militarism (1992–present).
She has been nominated for and she won a range of prizes and awards. Among these are the following:
Millennium Peace Prize, Honorary Citizenship of Tutin, Honorary Citizenship of Granada, etc.
Nominated for The Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
as part of the 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign in 2005, also in 2005 and 2007 she was nominated for Newspaper Person of the Year by the daily Danas
Danas
Danas, Serbian for today is a daily newspaper published in Serbia.Danas was established in mid-1997 after a group of discontented journalists from the Naša borba newspaper walked out after getting into a conflict with the paper's new private majority owner...
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