Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
Izabela Walentyna Jaruga - Nowacka ( born August 23, 1950 in Gdansk, † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk (Russia) ) was a Polish politician and Member of the Sejm in the II, IV, V and VI. Term, former chairman of the Unia Pracy and the Unia Lewicy and Deputy Prime Minister in the two cabinets Marek Belka.
Curriculum vitae
Jaruga - Nowacka a degree in Ethnography at the University of Warsaw, later she worked at the Institute for Science Policy and Higher Education ( 1974 to 1976 ) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (Institute of the Socialist countries) ( 1976 to 1986 ). She was one of the founders of the Unia Pracy. As Deputy Prime Minister, Marek Belka among them was dated 24 November 2004 to October 19, 2005 Minister for Social Development Studies.
She had two daughters and was married to Professor Jerzy Nowacki, the rector of the Polish -Japanese Academy of Computer Technology in Warsaw.
Political career
While the People's Republic of Poland, she belonged to any political organizations. She began her political activity in connection with human rights issues, especially women's rights. Since the mid- 1980s she was active in the League Kobiet Polskich ( League of Polish women). During two election periods, she was chairwoman of the national executive of this organization. In 1991, she joined the Ruch Demokratyczno - Społeczny ( Democratic- Social Movement) to, from whose list they ran unsuccessfully for the Sejmwahlen 1991.
In 1993 she became the Unia Pracy Sejmabgeordnete in the second term. She was deputy chairman of the Sejmkommission of Education, Science and Technological Progress, and was one of two women MPs, who belonged to the Sejm delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. She headed beyond the Polish -Mongolian Parliamentary Group.
It was in 2001 again elected to the Sejm. She won her seat with 23 666 votes in the constituency Gdynia Slupsk from the list of SLD Unia Pracy. Two months she was a member of the Commission for Culture and the Media. On 29 November 2001 she became Secretary of State in the Prime Minister's Office, a month later, she took over the office of the Agent of the Government for equality between men and women.
In the government Marek Belka, she was Minister without remit and - besides Jerzy Hausner - Second Deputy Prime Minister. Her responsibilities included the coordination of the work of the Council of Ministers in the areas of social policy, equality of men and women and the fight against discrimination, as well as the supervision of the operations of the Government Centre for Strategic Studies and the Agent of the Government of equality of men and wife.
She left on 19 April 2005, the Unia Pracy and joined, founded by her Unia Lewicy. She was a member of the election committee of Włodzimierz Cimoszevicz in the presidential elections of 2005. In the elections to the Sejm in 2005 it was the third time deputies from the list of SLD. In December 2005, she resigned from the Unia Lewicy.
In the elections to the Sejm in 2007, she won with 14,827 votes for the fourth time a deputy's mandate from the list of coalition Lewica i Demokraci ( Left and Democrats - LiD ). She is a member of the Sejm commissions for business policy and ethics deputies.
In April 2008 she joined the group Lewica.
Politics
It strives for equality, a ideologically neutral state and the securing of equal opportunities through free, universal access to education a. Along with Zbigniew Bujak 1991, she organized a campaign for a referendum on the legalization of abortion. In 1996, she developed a legislative proposal for the liberalization of the rules on family planning, abortion, and protection of the human fetus.
Death
On April 10, 2010 Izabela Jaruga - Nowacka belonged to a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński, who was to travel on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre to the memorial to Russia. However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the military airfield Smolensk - North they came together with other high-ranking representatives of Poland died. Posthumously awarded Jaruga - Nowacka on 16 April 2010 the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazda Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).