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GLOBAL “Whistleblower” Screening Disturbs Peace at UN 24 October 2011 Women’s eNews UN Peacekeepers’ violations of women they are supposed… Read More »
Ongoing sexual violence and killings of women activists in North Sudan is a source of deep concern in reports issued… Read More »
Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum is calling for Guatemalan state and society to put an end to increasing incidents of… Read More »
When Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, her goal was to plant 1 billion trees. October 28th,… Read More »
Margarita González Carpio, a female Mexican police officer, has been forced into hiding for resisting sexual advances from her superior…. Read More »
The Nobel Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative today released a statement calling for the support of the Palestinian people… Read More »
Ma Pu Sein was a participant in the 2010International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Burma, an event co-hosted by… Read More »

The Paley Center for Media is screening a documentary titled Granito: How to Nail a Dictator – Wednesday, October 19,… Read More »
The Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) released a Report entitled, Burma’s Covered Up War: Atrocities against the Kachin People, on… Read More »
Two Sudanese women journalists – Amal Habani and Fatima Ghazali- have been imprisoned by government officials for reporting on a… Read More »
It is with great sadness that we say good-bye to our dear colleague and friend, Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai…. Read More »
To Nobel Women’s Initiative, I am really sorry to hear that Wangari passed away. May she rest in Peace. Shirin… Read More »
In a month in which we have all mourned the death, and celebrated the life, of our great friend and… Read More »
The 2011 RAW in WAR (All Women in WAR) Anna Politkovskaya Award was awarded yesterday to Syrian human rights lawyer and journalist… Read More »
The women Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative—Jody Williams (USA), Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Mairead Maguire (Ireland) and Rigoberta Menchú… Read More »
The Laureates and staff of the Nobel Women’s Initiative offer their warm congratulations and best wishes to Archbishop Desmond Tutu… Read More »

