support to local human rights initiatives abroad, and also financed access to medicine and education in poor countries. She supported a "no" vote in the 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution: "I denounce the power of the economy over people, a system that turns individuals into elements in an economic equation, does not respect the poor and excludes everyone that does not live up to the principle of profitability". Works These men are first our brothers (Ces hommes sont avant tout nos frères), Ramsay, 1996, on the Indians of Chiapas Torture in Tunisia: Committee for freedom and human rights in Tunisia (La torture en Tunisie : Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l’homme en Tunisie), Le temps des cerises, 2000 Honours The French International School MLF Danielle Mitterrand in Iraqi Kurdistan is named after her. Foreign honours : Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (1991) : Order of Gabriela Silang (11 July 1989) : Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (11 May 1984) References External links France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand French activists French women activists . Spouses of French presidents 1924 births 2011 deaths Female resistance members of World War II French Resistance members People from Verdun Tibet freedom activists Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Netherlands) Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star 20th-century French politicians 21st-century French politicians French women in World War II 20th-century French women Mitterrand family