Archives › 2007 › October
This week, Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire helped celebrate the completion of the World Peace Bell Park in the demilitarized… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is very concerned over the Bush administration’s announcement that it will increase sanctions against Iranian banks and designate Iranian… Read More »
After respected peace US activists Medea Benjamin and Ret. Col. Ann Wright were barred entry to Canada in mid-October, parliamentarians… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative continues to appreciate your interest in our work. Here is a brief update on activities since… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative joined today with activists around the world and Crisis Action in calling for the release of… Read More »
Since 1996, sexual violence against women and children in the eastern part of the DRC has been used to torture… Read More »
Jody Williams is joining with the Darfur Divestment Campaign to call for activist pressure on Swiss Banking Giant, UBS. UBS is… Read More »
Little has been done to end the conflict [in Darfur], now in its fifth year. Hundreds of thousands are dead,… Read More »
Peaceful protests by Burmese pro-democracy activists and Buddhist monks and nuns have come under brutal attack by the ruling… Read More »
In mid-August 2007 Burma’s military regime unleashed the latest crackdown on its citizens’ long-standing nonviolent resistance movement. On August 15… Read More »
The United Nations Security Council issued, for the first time, a Presidential Statement on the situation in Burma. The Statement… Read More »
Human rights groups, survivors, and state representatives of affected nations met together in Belgrade, Serbia on 3-4 October to discuss… Read More »
An emergency meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council convened on Tuesday, 2 October, in response to the Burmese… Read More »
Today, Friday October 5 Mairead Corrigan Maguire presented the RAW in WAR Anna Award, on behalf of all of her sister laureates… Read More »
On Saturday September 29, Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Laureate, hand-delivered a statement from six of the seven women Nobel Peace Laureates… Read More »