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The Nobel Women’s Initiative has called on the President of Azerbaijan to immediately stop the forced evictions and illegal demolitions… Read More »
Stand in solidarity with the women human rights defenders in Burma by supporting their campaign for a United Nations General… Read More »
Today marks the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. On 2 December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August… Read More »
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi has submitted a report on the human rights situation in Iran to the United Nations Special… Read More »
The rape case of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú, two indigenous women of the Me’phaa nation from the… Read More »
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, made her first political appearance outside of the main city of Rangoon this… Read More »
Over fifty organizations, legal academics and professionals – as part of the August 12 Campaign – have sent letters to… Read More »
Nobel Laureate and Green Belt Movement (GBM) founder Wangari Maathai recently spoke from Nairobi on US National Public Radio (NPR)… Read More »
Last week Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Honduras to negotiate a free trade agreement between the two countries. While… Read More »
Binalakshmi Nepram, the Founder of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and Secretary General of Control Arms Foundation of India has… Read More »
In an op-ed published in the Mail & Guardian, Wangari Maathai warns that South Sudan cannot fade from our memory… Read More »
For Spanish see below. (August 11, 2011) On the eve of Prime Minister Harper’s trip to Honduras, the Nobel Women’s… Read More »
Human rights groups critical of the Israeli government are under threat from a series of anti-democratic bills sweeping the Knesset…. Read More »
Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a crime reporter for a daily newspaper Notiver, was abducted from her home by gunmen… Read More »
Japan commemorated the 66th Anniversary of the Hiroshima – Nagasaki disaster on Saturday August 6th. Thousands attended the ceremonies to… Read More »
The national court of Spain has announced they will launch a full legal investigation into sexual abuse inflicted on women… Read More »
Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has offered to assist in mediation between the government and ethnic groups as… Read More »
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Peace Laureate and Laura Reyes are two indigenous women running for office in the upcoming Guatemalan… Read More »