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Fourteen Nobel Laureates today released an open letter to the members of the United Nations Security Council. This, in response… Read More »
On July 25th, more than 110 cities worldwide hosted events as part of a Global Day of Action calling for… Read More »
In a show of solidarity with Honduran Feminists in Resistance, women throughout the Americas are mobilizing to pressure the US… Read More »
UPDATE: The verdict, which was expected to be delivered on Friday, July 31st, was postponed to August 11th. Read more…. Read More »
In a recently published op-ed, Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai challenges G8 nations to commit to action on climate change. Maathai… Read More »
UPDATE: Global protests call for end to Iranian rights abuses , Globe and Mail, 25 July 2009. On Saturday July… Read More »
Leading human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, was abducted near her home in Grozny on the morning of 15 July 2009…. Read More »
Attempt to Break Siege of Gaza and Ending Up Abducted and Imprisoned in Israel for a Week By Mairead Maguire,… Read More »
Chechen human rights activist, Natalia Esterimova, was abducted and murdered on July 15th. Esterimova worked for the Chechnyan human rights… Read More »
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For Gaza and the Palestinian People – A Poem by Mairead Maguire
Nobel Peace Laureate, Jody Williams, attended the Global Women’s Summit in Santiago, Chile in May. The summit is an annual… Read More »
In a June 28th coup d’etat, the democratically elected President of the Republic of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was… Read More »
Following the renewed demonstrations, detentions and abuse of human rights in Iran, United for Iran is calling on the international community… Read More »
Following the renewed demonstrations, detentions and abuse of human rights in Iran, United for Iran is calling on the international community… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative and other supporters of the International Criminal Court were disappointed by a joint resolution issued at… Read More »
On the 6th of July 2009, Presidents Obama and Medvedev committed to decrease their nuclear arsenals by up to a… Read More »
A group of Nobel Peace Laureates today sent an urgent letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking him to… Read More »
Update: Mairead Maguire released from Israeli prison. Read more. View the poem she wrote from her prison cell. Learn more… Read More »
UPDATE: (5 July 2009) Ban Ki Moon leaves Burma without having been granted a visit with Aung San Suu Kyi…. Read More »
Update: (5 July, 2009) 14 activists, including Mairead Maguire, still being detained. The five Bahraini activists have been freed. Listen… Read More »