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Aung San Suu Kyi Refuses to Participate in Unjust Elections

Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, has announced she will not take part in the upcoming elections in Burma…. Read More »

Iranian Women’s Rights Campaign Wins Freedom of Expression Award

The Change for Equality website has been awarded Reporters Without  Borders first-ever “Netizen Prize”. Change for Equality is run by… Read More »

Wangari Maathai Launches ‘Africa Talks Climate’

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai joined Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Kenya last week to launch the regional ‘Africa Talks Climate’… Read More »

European Union Complicit in Crimes Against Palestinian People: Russell Tribunal

Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire participated in a tribunal last week that examined human rights violations in Palestine. The international community’s… Read More »

Laureates Meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams and Thin Thin Aung of the Women’s League of Burma met yesterday with… Read More »

Thank You Tibet Event – March 4, 2010 in New York City

The Tibet Fund will present a special Thank You Tibet! program with Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi… Read More »

International Organizations Demonstrate Solidarity with Women of Iran on International Women’s Day

Change for Equality has called on its international partners to use the month of March as a time to highlight… Read More »

The World is Watching… Media Coverage of Tribunal

Burmese rape victims speak out, IPS, 7 March 2010. This is my witness, Open Democracy, 5 March 2010. Nobel winners… Read More »

Stories of the Women of Burma… Courage

Listen to Saw talk about the inspiration and courage she draws from the words of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Press Release: International Tribunal on Burma Calls for End to Impunity of Military Regime – FULL TEXT

-New York (March 3, 2010 10 am EST) International Tribunal on Burma Calls for End to Impunity of Military Regime… Read More »

Press Release: International Tribunal on Burma Calls for End to Impunity of Military Regime

Read the full text of the press release with findings and recommendations here. -New York (March 3, 2010 10 am… Read More »

Common, But Not Normal: Reflections on the Third Session of Testimony

By Shannon Sommerauer   The testifiers in the third and final session of testimony spoke to violations of economic, social… Read More »

"It Broke My Heart, Once and for All": Reflections on the Second Session of Testimony

By Shannon Sommerauer   In our second session of testimony, we heard from four testifiers who have experienced egregious civil… Read More »

Tortures of Shame and Silence: Reflections on the First Session of Testimony

By Shannon Sommerauer   The first session of testimony, Violence Against Women, has just come to a close.  Already, those… Read More »

Anticipation

By Shannon Sommerauer   Sitting here before the start of the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma, the… Read More »

Stories of the Women of Burma… Day 4

In Burma I was a colleague of Aung San Suu Kyi and a very active member of Generation 88. My… Read More »

Stories of the Women of Burma… Day 3

After fleeing our village, my family and I lived in refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border. For 10 years we… Read More »