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Three TN women in Nobel nomination list
Three Tamil Nadu women have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Chennai-based NGO for their work on issues such as AIDS.
Three Tamil Nadu women have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Chennai-based NGO - Initiatives: Women in Development - for their work on issues such as AIDS, environment and social parity.
The names of Shyamala Natarajan, Saraswathi and Krishna Jagannathan were announced by the NGO Wednesday.
The three women figure in a list of 1,000 women from 150 countries, whose names have been submitted to the Nobel Prize Committee.
Natarajan is a journalist in her late 40s and is the founder director of South India AIDS Action. She has been working with HIV-positive and AIDS-affected people for more than a decade.
Saraswathi, hailing from Chennai, works with campaigns to eliminate caste discriminations.
Jagannathan is an environmentalist and works for women's issues. She belongs to Nagapattinam district, which was hit badly by the December tsunami disaster.
