This week, a group of diverse Sudanese women leaders is meeting at a conference in Juba, Sudan organized by My Sister’s Keeper and supported by the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

In addition to providing support for women’s participation in the event, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai also personally reached out to the women of Sudan with a special message on the need to work together and to take their place in Sudan’s peace processes.

The meeting in Juba brought together women from all regions of the country – including from Darfur, East, North and South Sudan, as well as refugees from Chad.  They have come together in recognition of the critical ongoing peace processes in Sudan.  They also seek to emphasize the need for women to be front and centre within these processes, including in the Darfur peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar and in the preparations for the upcoming referenda that will decide on Southern Sudanese succession and the status of the regions of Abeyi, Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan.

Watch Wangari Maathai’s video message to the women.

LEARN MORE

Learn more about the event in Juba.

Learn more about the work of My Sister’s Keeper.

Read the recent Op-Ed by Wangari Maathai on the need for women’s inclusion in the Southern Sudan referendum.

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Call on the United Nations to ensure women’s participation in peace processes.