Honorary Member, Sevim Arbana

Ms. Arbana is an early activist of the democratic and feminist movements in Albania and among the 1000 women candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She is founder of Useful to Albanian Women (UAW) and YWCA- Albania. Her first regional program, Woman Bridge for Peace and Understanding, promoted nonviolence and women in leadership as well as initiated a rehabilitation center for street children, a campaign against trafficking of Albanian girls and women, and saw the country’s first Women’s Club. Arbana is currently leading the initiative ‘Another Balkan is Possible! Another World is Possible!’. She was President of Albanian NGO, Head of the Nat’l. Council of Albanian Women, leader of the UNESCO Council of Women, and appointed to the HWPL Cmte. – Albania for Peace Advocacy (2015). She was also 1 of 12 women featured in The Peace Calendar from Ambassadors of Peace-Albania. She has received numerous awards including a Human Rights award from France; a Philanthropy award from Partners, Albania (2016); and a Plaque of Appreciation from Nam Hee Kim, Chair of the Intl. Women Peace Gr. (2017), in recognition of her contributions to the Decl. of Peace and Cessation of War.