United Arab Emirates

Susan Macaulay Susan is an “ordinary” woman, with an extraordinary mission and huge determination to make it happen. So many women believe that you have to be rich, or famous, or to have overcome insurmountable... Dubayy United Arab Emirates Community/Women's Organization

Argentina

María Lourdes Cuerda Its my sister and is the most wonderfull peaple a knoow in my life!I love it! Buenos Aires Province Argentina Family

Australia

Catrine Von Dinklage She is always serving and community building with a wide range of community groups, encouraging others while staying in the background away from the spotlight. New South Wales Australia Community/Women's Organization

Dr Susan Evans Co-Founder of Asia Pacific Endometriosis Association, she's dedicated her life to supporting women with endometriosis, practising from Adelaide branch of Endometriosis Care Centre. A complete... Australian Capital Territory Australia Community/Women's Organization

Bermuda

Juliette Jackson Juliette has always shown extreme professionalism whenever dealing with her clients, from owning The BlueJay Luncheonette with her husband, Wayne, to starting up her own cake making business, Triple... Southampton Bermuda Business

Brunei

Lily Chiam Lily Chiam is one of the most talented inspiring demonstrators I know. With a well established music school and record sales and continuously expanding into Singapore and soon Indonesia she is not... Brunei and Muara Brunei Country/Government/Military Service

Canada

Donna Dahl Donna Dahl is an inspiration to all women entrepreneurs, whether they are just starting out or have been in a business for many years. I have been a single mom for 23 years and had endeavored to... Ontario Canada Business	Beverley Jaremko Bev is very dedicated to her family and helps them whenever she can. She also flys to Ottawa to babysit grandchildren when their daughter is at a meeting in another city and her son-in-law is at... Alberta Canada School/Church
Lee Anne Gibbs She has dedicated her life to empowerment for women and children. She is co-founder of www.theoptimalway.com and worked... Ontario Canada Community/Women's Organization	Judi aka Judi The Manners Lady Vankevich Judi is a woman on a mission who is making a difference in the lives of women, mothers, children, teens, athletes and business people in Canada and around the world. Known and loved as Judi The... British Columbia Canada Country/Government/Military Service
GLORIA JOAQUIN ...she gives her all and her best to the betterment and improvement of other people's lives without worrying about what critics think! She shares all that she knows, and credits her success to God... Alberta Canada Community/Women's Organization	Marilyn Bali Marie-Eve Bali My twin sister is exceptional The closeness that twins experience is unique. Growing up in the same family, and the same age, we are in a unique position to share perspectives on life. Depending on... Quebec Canada Business
Marilyn Bali she is a one of kind lady, with a tender heart, a winning attitude and a focused oriented mind as a self-employed business woman. A decision she took with an determination regardless of the negative... Quebec Canada Family	Angela Schira This Sister has recently retired from her position with the BC Federation of Labour, Secretary Treasurers position. Angie has been a mentor and a friend to Women across Canada. She would always be... British Columbia Canada Community/Women's Organization
Annie Lim Dr. Annie Lim is a compassionate, fun and inspiring person. She is a powerful, loving, authentic woman who brings that love, spark, passion, business savvy, strength, brilliance, beauty and... Ontario Canada Business	Marie-Eve Bali She is a 55years old modern lady with an impressive shape and diamond solid Will to show the world, that no matter what the age and your life path, you can be healthy and in shape by embracing new... Quebec Canada Business
Marie-Eve Bali Shellie, is a 55years old modern lady with an impressive shape and diamond solid Will to show the world, that no matter what the age and your life path, you can be healthy and in shape by embracing... Quebec Canada Business

India

Wanitha Ashok I am a fan of Wanitha Ashok. She had put it up on face book about doing a web show.So As I follow her I googled and came accross this awards.And I said if one person who desrerves it then it this... India Community/Women's Organization	Karin Bedi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdteZIdoF4A "Yes Madam, Sir" sums it up...just look at this... India Country/Government/Military Service
Priya Anand Pariyani I am nominating myself, because I am woman. My name is Priya Anand Pariyani, a graphic designer & painting artist from India. I have done many painting exhibition in India & Canada also. From... Gujarat India Business	Priya verma Eighteen year Priya is a student,writer,innovator, environmentalist,artist,social worker, youth leader, change maker, role model and a state, national and international award holder in the field of... Chandigarh India Community/Women's Organization
Sathya Ravirajan A Dearest sister to Many in the city of Coimbatore, she's sharing unconditional and empowering women from all walks of life. Her mission to empower at least one woman day, and she requests all woman... Tamil Nadu India Community/Women's Organization

Japan

Ann Sado I admire her vitality and strong leadership. Tokyo Japan Community/Women's Organization	Caroline Pover Caroline is highly devoted and is a mentor to many woman active in this area. Tokyo Japan School/Church
Holly Helt Holly is a woman of passion and vitality. Her entrepreneurship is an inspiration to many woman in the business world. Tokyo Japan Business	Atsuko Muraki Atsuko has selflessly fought for people with least power in society for many years . Her pensiveness and devotion has encouraged many working women in Japan for the last four decades. Nagasaki Japan Country/Government/Military Service
Yoko Moriki Yoko Moriki has been projecting "Kids Dynamics" which support children and their parents to find their strength and weakness and guide to life with happiness, satisfaction and fulfillments. And that... Tokyo Japan Family

Kenya

Ann Njeri Ann Njeri is a dynamic, young and powerful woman who is going beyond the talking and is MAKING change happen in parts of the world that have seen very little change for the positive in a very long... Rift Valley Kenya Community/Women's Organization

Agnetta Nyalita Agnetta Nyalita is a 23 year old young leader who has selflessly contributed immensely to the empowerment of young people in her Itaava district a remote and dry region of Eastern Kenya and other... Eastern Kenya Community/Women's Organization

Sri Lanka

Dona Delicia Neela Wickramasinghe I would like to nominate Dona Delicia Neela Wickramasinghe a Noble Woman The Pinnacle of Neelas Acivement is the highly appreciated UNICEF advertistement she appeared for the worthy cause of... Western Sri Lanka Community/Women's Organization	ROCHELLE EKANAYAKE she is a tremendous lady in the field of Hair & beauty business. Mrs B C Rochelle Ekanayake - LCGI (UK) MUKAP (UK) MInstLM (UK) Managing Dirctor -... Western Sri Lanka Business
First Lady Shiranthi Rajapakse Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa the First Lady of Sri Lanka is a devoted wife, dutiful mother and glamour queen. Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa views education as being of paramount importance as “educated... Western Sri Lanka Family	Shantha Mayadunne Shantha who has been in the culinary field for more than 25 years says she always tries to show that cooking can be done easily and simply Shantha Mayadunne teachers the easy way of local cooking.... Western Sri Lanka School/Church
Dr. Soma Edirisinghe The multi award winning Deshabandu Deshashakthi Dr Soma Edirisinghe is considered as Sri Lanka's beacon for women, who from being a housewife, was forced to take on her husband's business on his... Western Sri Lanka Community/Women's Organization	KALYANI KARALLIYADDA I am Nominating Ms Kalyani Wijeratne Karalliyadda as she was born to an upper middle class very respectable family living in small village called Kivulekada in the Anuradhapura District, which is 250... North Western Sri Lanka Country/Government/Military Service

Malaysia

Wendy Tan Wendy has been a role model for women entrepreneurs here in malaysia/asia, being in a very successful engineering business. She is a very down to earth, person, who knows her stand in business.... Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Business	Po Chiok Lim her love and passion for art, education, learning, nurturing and bringing out from within the gifts and creativity of the children she inspires. Her commitment towards excellence is astounding, by... Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Family
Lee-Jean Fung she is the epitome of a woman of heart. Lee-Jean has built her business with 9 pharmacy outlets in Johor and Kuala Lumpur -- and her life based on her core values. She was also awarded the Pharmacist... Johor Malaysia Country/Government/Military Service	Zaiton Osman she has dedicated her entire working life to raising the bar for her profession! Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Country/Government/Military Service
Mariza Abdul Kadir Mariza's passion is infectious! Her passion in children and education is very inspiring. Her determination is to be modeled after. Her passion to change the education systems for the children and... Kuala Lumpur Malaysia School/Church	Sabariah Jusoh She has built up a business to improve the proficiency of the English Language and of financial education of schoolchidren in Malaysia. By addressing a weakness of the Malaysian education system, she... Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Business
Fancy Tan Fancy is an amazing & inspiring women who is the community organization known as Rotary Club. Fancy has been passionately chairing and organizing the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp for more... Johor Malaysia Community/Women's Organization	Chang Kit Ti Through her efforts, she had increased the revenue of a local Malaysian photography and training company by 4000%, allowing them to achieve their first half million ringgit project since the company... Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Business
Julia Loh Julia is an incredible mum who is very supportive of her children. Through the years, she has demonstrated great commitment in ensuring that all her children attained proper education so that they... Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Family	Tan Chun Luan She built up a successful paint manufacturing and supply business in Penang by herself. Her company's products are acknowledged to be of high quality, and she is now converting them to be more... Penang Malaysia Business
Christina Chia she is a woman of grace, beauty, passion, intelligent, strength and puts her heart into everything that she does - be it in business in establishing a successful, well-respected law firm, to creating... Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Community/Women's Organization	Meher Doulath Jalaludeen From Singapore - My mother, she is born and brought up in India. My mother migrated as an obedient and loving wife, with my dad, to singapore in the 1970s, giving all she can for the family.... Wilayah Persekutuan Malaysia Family
Samantha Wong FROM SINGAPORE - Samantha has dedicated her life, working with women in Singapore, at community and grassroots level. A very active committee member of WINS - Women Integrated Network - Council which... Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Community/Women's Organization

Nigeria

JULIANA NGOZI OKEKE She founded the WOMEN INITIATIVE FOR PEACE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE,local organization that works directly in all grassroots communities of Nigeria. Its activities centers around increasing awareness and... Anambra Nigeria Community/Women's Organization

New Zealand

Judith Speight Judith is making a difference not only in New Zealand but in the world as see by the following statements taking from her bio: "In September 2010 Judith was one of four NZ women business people... New Zealand Country/Government/Military Service	Dame Georgima Kirby Dame Georgie is a matriarch for Maori business in New Zealand. Her energy, her devotion, her commitment has helped hundreds of women succeed in business. Wikipedia says about Dame Georgie Dame... Auckland New Zealand Business
Deborah Bush Ms Bush is Chief Executive Officer of Endometriosis New Zealand, an organisation at the forefront of internationally recognised endometriosis services and programmes. She runs education and... Auckland New Zealand Community/Women's Organization

Peru

Rebeca Kuniyoshi (Becky) Dr. Rebeca Kuniyoshi, signed up as the representative of the Latin American Region of the International Society of Medical Women (MWIA) in the Centenary of International Women's Day, the... Lima Peru Community/Women's Organization

Philippines

Gloria Barba She is very energetic at her age of 64. Considering that she's a senior citizen already, but she keeps on managing having the laundry at home and taking care of her grandchildren. She's like a... Cavite Philippines Family

Corazon Yabes-Almirante A graduate of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine, Dr. Corazon Yabes-Almirante is wife to a successful husband and mother to four sons who are all professionals. She finished... Quezon Philippines Community/Women's Organization

Pakistan

Noor Aftab Launching the careers of hundreds of women through mentoring, grooming and loans, earned her the respect of her peers. Helping flood-hit women in Nowshera, she caught gastro enteritis that became a... Punjab Pakistan Community/Women's Organization

Russia

Revekka Mesenzhnik She considers herself the happiest wife in the world and she is extremely humble. She is a wife and an angel for her husband, a worldwide known scientist, inventor and thinker, social leader and... Moscow (City) Russia Family	Rimma Vedeneeva Rimma’s credo is “Greats thoughts exist for the sake of great actions” and she is an example of this. She has been very talented in many areas from her childhood. But her love for nature and... Moscow (City) Russia Community/Women's Organization
Zemfira Tsakhilova She likes to remind to herself: «You never create unity between others, if there is no integrity inside you». Everyone who meets Zemfira is influenced by her bright and all-round personality, her... Moscow (City) Russia Community/Women's Organization	Vera Boldycheva-Kazakidi Vera Boldycheva-Kazakidi is President of Cultural fund “My Moscow”, Chief Editor of magazine “My Moscow” and General Director of Publishing house “New Line”. She is a strong and all-rounded... Moscow (City) Russia Community/Women's Organization
Victoria Lepko The ancient wisdom says: «A desire of a woman is a desire of God». It can be a slogan of Victoria’ art and life. She is an actress and a poet. Her heart is open for God. God is love. And love in all... Moscow (City) Russia Community/Women's Organization

Rwanda

Jeanette KAGAME She initiated different activities through the Imbuto foundation such as; empowering women and youth and children,health insurance support, helping orphans, widows and poor famillies etc Kigali-ville Rwanda Country/Government/Military Service	Khatun Jaffer Jaffer She has established one of main businesses from a small rudimentary factory(Sulfo Rwanda) in Rwanda and gives employment to many people as well as serving the development of the country, and she also... Kigali-ville Rwanda Business
Lycee Notre dame de Citeaux LNDC This is a school run by catholic sisters and has been one of the main performers in national examinations.They empower girls by giving a good education and positive moral behaviour. This for a long... Kigali-ville Rwanda School/Church	PROFEMMES TWESE HAMWE This organisation has served as an umbrella for women associations and supported them in different areas of development, gender equality and advocacy in Rwanda. A lot of projects has been done by... Kigali-ville Rwanda Community/Women's Organization
Felicite MUKARUGIRA She is a mother (widow) taking care of her family, she has also dedicated her life for spiritual service by giving courses about positivity and self development through Brahma kumaris center in... Kigali-ville Rwanda Family

Thailand

LORRAINE CLARK Lorriane is an outstanding woman, always there to lend a hand and organise avents. She has helped with many charities and is full of enthusiasm and lots of ideas. Samui is very lucky to have... Surat Thani Thailand Community/Women's Organization	Somboon Suprasert Somboon or “Auntie Boon” has a heart filled with compassion for those who suffer from HIV/AIDS. At 79, she has led a life that exhibits hard work and commitment, in order to provide a future for the... Chiang Mai Thailand Community/Women's Organization
Lynn Gregory Lynn is enthusiastic and devotes a lot of the time to raising funds and awareness of things that need our attention on Samui and could do with improving to keep up with the fast pace of development... Surat Thani Thailand Community/Women's Organization	Sue Holehouse Sue runs the extremely popular "Sisters On Samui" (SOS) Women's Club on the island of Koh Samui. The informal group was created for ladies to be able to meet over lunch, making friends and welcoming... Surat Thani Thailand Community/Women's Organization
Susan Dustin Hattan-Aldous Susan is a very inspiring women who breathes and lives the spirit of service above self. She has spend tremendous amount of time, energy and effort in serving and supporting the people in prison,... Bangkok Thailand Community/Women's Organization

Trinidad and Tobago

Gia Virginia Gaspard-Taylor Mrs Gia Gaspard: Have been involved in the Women's movement for many year, she was the youngest first lady of the City of Port of Spain (wife of the Mayor of our capital city) he served three... Tunapuna/Piarco Trinidad and Tobago Community/Women's Organization

Ukraine

Valentyna Naidenko I am nominating my WONDERFUL MOTHER because she is truly an EARTH ANGEL! She's been working as a physician (general practitioner) for 35 years. For all these years she's been giving all her time and... Kirovohrad Ukraine Family

United Kingdom

Bernie Allen Bernie is from Ireland but even tho its a small Island Bernie could see how women had lost thier way so Bernie join a network marketing company 17 years ago to help women find thier true potential... Armagh United Kingdom Business	Funmi Olonisakin Dr. Funmi Olonisakin, Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) at King’s College London; is a dedicated activist and passionate humanitarian on subjects related to peace,... London City of United Kingdom Country/Government/Military Service
Dorothy Ward Dr. Dorothy Ward, as a previous President of the Medical Women's International Association lead women doctors in speaking out with a loud voice in an advocacy role about the importance of WOMEN'S... Renfrewshire United Kingdom Community/Women's Organization

South Africa

Rachel Jewkes Rachel Jewkes is the director of the MRC Gender & Health Unit in South Africa. Her research carries profound impact on women's health, particularly focusing on gender based violence. She also was... Gauteng South Africa Country/Government/Military Service