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February 2010
Show Catalog
San Suu Kyi
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0001
San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in Burma (Myanmar) for 18 of the past 23 years. After she was elected President of the National League for Democracy Party in 1990, the ruling Junta took control instead. Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Benazir Bhutt
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0002
script: Benazir Bhutto died on the path to freedom.
Benazir was the great hope of freedom for Pakistanis when she was murdered in 2007. She returned from exile to campaign for the Presidency despite death threats from Islamist terrorists. Urdu.
Ashin Koveda
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0003
Ashin led the Buddhist Monks who organized protests in Rangoon, Buma in 2007. Many monks were beaten and have disappeared into jails. Ashin is in hiding in Thailand and has been granted asylum in the USA. Burmese script is from a banner carried by monks to lead the protest. “May the wishes of the people of Burma be fulfilled.”
Mukhtaran Mai: An Honorable Woman
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0004
Mukhtaran was gang raped in retaliation when her brother was perceived to have dishonored the village. She became a symbol of hope for Pakistani women when her attackers were convicted. Never allowed to go to school, she is responsible for building the first girl’s school in her village. Arabic Script, Qu’ran Chapter 17, Verse 15:…no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another’s burden.
Malalai Joya
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0005
Malalai is the youngest woman elected to Afganistan’s Parliament. She has survived four assassination attempts and the bombing of her home. She braves death as she tries to bring Warlords who committed human rights abuses to justice. “They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it is the voice of all Afgan women.” Arabic Script: Defend Malalai Joya!
Nadia Anjuman
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
16 X 20
$425
MACP-0006
Nadia was a member of the Sewing Circle of Herat, women who risked their lives to study literature under the Taliban regime. At age 25 she published her first book of poetry, “Dark Red Flower.” Believing the book brought shame on the family, her husband beat her to death. She had a six month old son. Arabic Script: The Qu’an, Sura 58,a: Allah hears the words of that woman who disagrees with her husband. God hears all and sees all.
Taslima Nasmin
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
28 X 24.5
$450
MACP-0007
Taslima is a Bengali Bangladeshi physician, writer and feminist human rights activist living under an Islamic fatwa since 1993. In 2007 a bounty was again offered for her beheading. The government of Bangladesh has banned most of her fifteen books because of her critical views on religion and the treatment of women under Islam. She has defied the ban by posting her writing on the web in the Bengali language.
Gege Katana: The Iron Lady
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0008
Gege has survived attacks and threats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of her work in human rights for women. Her network of peace groups in villages trains women activists to work to end violence against women and against rape as a weapon of war. “The rape of women and girls, without distinction of age, by armed men…must be punished as a crime against humanity.”
Munir
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0009
Munir Siad Thalib, cofounder of the National Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence in Indonesia, was poisoned aboard a flight to Amsterdam where he was to study international human rights. Mengapa dia dibungham? Bahasa Indonesian: Why was he silenced?
Suciwati Munir
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0010
Suciwati is the widow of Munir Siad Thalib. Despite death threats she continues to pressure the President of Indonesia to release results of a fact-finding commission into her husband’s death and to bring to justice those in power responsible for his assassination. Siapa pembunuh Munir? Bahasa Indonesian: Who murdered Munir?
Iris
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
20 X 24
$450
MACP-0011
Iris Chang chronicled atrocities committed by the Japanese Military in 1938 in The Rape of Nanjing. Japan refuses to acknowledge the atrocities and eliminates them from textbooks. Chinese Script from a stone plaque in “the killing fields” at Nanjing.
Honor
Phyllis MacLaren
mixed media collage
18 X 24
$450
MACP-0012
A rise in the murder of Muslim girls and women by male relatives brings dishonor to the families and countries that condone or tolerate it. Arabic Script, Qu’ran Chapter 17, Verse 15:….no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another’s burden.
Updated: 2010.01.28
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