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Dr. Rashad Zidan, and the women of Iraq, have been working tirelessly to hold families together through the terrors of war. Nominated by the U.S.-based women's activist group CodePink, OneWorlders across the planet have voted them the People of 2006. Learn more.

We gave OneWorlders a chance to send in questions for Dr. Zidan in Baghdad. Click here to read what she had to say.

Image: © CODEPINK: Women for Peace

MEET THE OTHER FINALISTS...

Al Gore

With the runaway success of his film "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has made climate change a household term in the United States.

Al Santoli & the Asia America Initiative

Several OneWorlders nominated Santoli and his organization for their inspiring efforts to build peace and security through community development.

Anna Politkovskaya

Murdered in October, Politkovskaya was respected worldwide for her talent and fearlessness while covering wars and exposing rights abuses.

Rob Hopkins and the town of Kinsale, Ireland

The Irish town of Kinsale has taken up a plan -- devised by Rob Hopkins and his students -- to wean itself off fossil fuels.

Evo Morales

Bolivia's indigenous president has also become the face of those struggling for a more equitable distribution of the world's resources.

The 'Philanthropreneurs'

Social change isn't free. Entrepreneurs put up big bucks in 2006 -- perhaps marking a shift in global development funding.

Renee Saucedo & U.S. immigrants' rights activists

Perhaps the most powerful and surprising people's movement of 2006 had many leaders; Renee Saucedo was a driving force behind efforts in San Francisco.