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The Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative welcome the visit by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to Burma. In… Read More »
Humanitarian campaigners are applauding the failure of a U.S.-led push to regulate, rather than ban, cluster munitions at the Fourth… Read More »
Meet KHIN MAY ZAW—Senior Editor of Multimedia for Radio Free Asia, based in Washington, D.C. She dedicates herself to bringing… Read More »
“Together, women of the third world, the first world, the middle world, this one globe, have to be united and… Read More »
Meet JOCELYN KELLY—passionate young human rights activist and researcher. Jocelyn has focused her research in the Democratic Republic of the… Read More »
Meet K’NYAW PAW. K’nyaw Paw is a remarkable young activist working to change the lives of women in Burma. For… Read More »
“We must recognize that sexual violence has been the greatest silence of wars.” Meet Luz Méndez. Luz is a women’s… Read More »
GLOBAL UN Calls for Funds to End Violence Against Women 24 November, 2011 New Zealand Herald The U.N. Secretary-General appealed… Read More »
Meet SHINKAI KAROKHAIL. Shinkai Karokhail is currently serving as an elected parliamentarian in the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic… Read More »
Along with women’s organizations worldwide, Nobel Women’s Initiative is again taking part in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender… Read More »
On November 7, Mexico’s government publicly apologized for failing to prevent the killings of three women in the border city… Read More »
Visit our 16 Days of Activism blog now. Meet the activists from our 16 Days 2010. Meet the activists… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative issued a statement today on the eve of the 19th ASEAN summit supporting the call of… Read More »
Members of the Iranian group ‘Mourning Mothers’ have again been targeted for arrests and harassment and are now being summoned… Read More »
On Sunday November 13th, Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation voted in favor of backing two private bills aimed at drastically… Read More »
US President Obama announced yesterday that he will send the Keystone XL pipeline project back to the State Department for… Read More »
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Feminist Task Force have teamed up to launch Women and Climate… Read More »
On Monday, the jury of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) – including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire –… Read More »
(Ottawa) November 9, 2011 —Two Nobel Laureates—Jody Williams of the US and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa—today published an… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative Quarterly Update is available now! Check your inbox, or read it on the web. Subscribe to… Read More »
A memorial sugar maple tree was planted on Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 in Ottawa’s Minto Park to honor Nobel Peace… Read More »
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and Executive Director Liz Bernstein of the Nobel Women’s Initiative were among 10,000 activists at… Read More »
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams will join an expected 4,000 protesters outside the Whitehouse on Sunday. The activists are calling… Read More »
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