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The Nobel Women’s Initiative is deeply concerned by the detention of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and other human rights… Read More »
-Ottawa (June 30, 2009) The Nobel Women’s Initiative is deeply concerned by the detention of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire… Read More »
African civil society leaders, Nobel Laureates, and justice experts from across the continent united ahead of the African Union summit to call… Read More »
Over the last two weeks, the Iranian authorities have been criminalizing peaceful protest and taking violent actionsagainst its citizens. Gross human rights violations,… Read More »
-Ottawa (June 25, 2009) African civil society leaders, Nobel Laureates, and justice experts from across the continent are uniting ahead of… Read More »
UPDATE: Still no news on whereabouts or condition of Bani-Yaghoub or her husband. Read More. Iranian journalist Jila Bani Yaghoub and her husband… Read More »
Six women Nobel Peace Laureates called upon the government of Iran today to end the violence against protesters and free… Read More »
-Ottawa (June 19, 2009) To commemorate Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday on 19 June (her 14th in detention), local… Read More »
Detained Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, is spending her 64th birthday in Insein Pr… Read More »
Born on 19 June 1945, detained democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi will face her 64th… Read More »
The Iranian elections, held on June 12, 2009, captured attention worldwide. Results released to the public declared incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… Read More »
An Opinion Editorial piece written by Nobel Laureates, Wangari Maathai, Wole Soyenka, and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on African leaders… Read More »
Seventeen Nobel Peace Laureates have issued a declaration calling upon political leaders and citizens worldwide to act immediately to eliminate… Read More »