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On April 26, Shirin Ebadi accepted the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on behalf of Nasrin Sotoudeh, lawyer currently imprisoned in Iran…. Read More »
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Join the nine Nobel Peace Laureates in calling on world leaders to say no to nuclear energy. TAKE ACTION Write to President Obama: Reverse… Read More »
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – and six weeks after the devastating nuclear… Read More »
- Ottawa (April 21st, 2011) On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – and six… Read More »
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate, sent a letter to the UN this week regarding recent violent attacks against Iranian Sunni… Read More »
Women fleeing violence in the Ivory Coast report the pervasive use of sexual slavery and rape in the conflict, according… Read More »
Last week, European Union foreign ministers met and decided to maintain EU targeted economic sanctions against the dictatorship in… Read More »
Last week, European Union foreign ministers met and decided to maintain EU targeted economic sanctions against the dictatorship in Burma… Read More »
In a statement, the Shan Women’s Action Network and the Shan Human Rights Foundation along with other organizations accused the… Read More »
Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and nine other human rights and labour rights organizations expressed concern last week towards Iran’s… Read More »
Rosa Elbira Coc Ich and ten other indigenous Mayan women recently filed a lawsuit against Canadian mining companies HMI Nickel,… Read More »
Last week, activists and civil society around the world called on the international community to pay attention to the dire… Read More »
Meet Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú. They are indigenous women of the Me’phaa nation from the state of… Read More »
Zaynab is the Coordinator of Sudanese Women Empowerment for Peace (SuWEP). SuWEP has a strong vision of a united women’s… Read More »