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Nobel Laureates Condemn Harassment of Human Rights Defenders in Iran

-Ottawa (December 22, 2008) The Nobel Women’s Initiative—led by six Nobel Peace Prize winning women—reached out to world leaders today… Read More »

Nobel Laureates Condemn Harassment of Human Rights Defenders in Iran

MEDIA RELEASE (Ottawa), December 22, 2008 The Nobel Women’s Initiative—led by six Nobel Peace Prize winning women—reached out to world… Read More »

Award-Winning Activist Barred From Leaving Iran

Last week, Iran prevented a prominent human rights lawyer from leaving the country to receive an award in Rome. Nasrin… Read More »

Nobel Women’s Initiative Update – December 2008

In Recent News First Global Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs Signed in Oslo Eleven years to the day following the signing… Read More »

2008 Peace Delegation Report Now Available!

This past July the Nobel Women’s Initiative led a delegation of prominent human rights activists to the Thai-Burma border, Ethiopia,… Read More »

Release Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureates Ask for UN Action

Recent events in the Congo prevented UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon from meeting with a delegation of Nobel Peace… Read More »

Nearly 100 Countries Sign Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs

Countries including Laos, Lebanon and the United Kingdom gathered today in Oslo to sign the first global treaty on banning… Read More »

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2008

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute… Read More »