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April 23, 2018
W7: Feminist Visions for the G7
For the first time ever, the G7 engagement process includes a summit of diverse feminist leaders – the W7: Feminist Visions for the G7. The W7 will bring together feminists who are trailblazers in their…
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March 09, 2018
Human Rights Council Must Stop Rohingya Genocide
Nobel Women’s Initiative Preliminary Findings on Myanmar UN Human Rights Council Thirty-Seventh session March 2018 The Nobel Women’s Initiative conducted a fact-finding delegation to Bangladesh between February 24 and March 2, to investigate the situation…
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March 07, 2018
Shifting the Power: Join us in New York!
Join us for Shifting the Power—A Global Conversation on Funding for a Feminist Future for meaningful conversation about recent trends and challenges in funding for women’s organizations and women’s movements, both domestically and globally. We…
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March 01, 2018
Silence is Complicity: Dispatch from Bangladesh
On the final two days of the Standing with Rohingya Women delegation, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, and Mairead Maguire brought the stories of the women they met to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, diplomats, the media, and members of civil society in Dhaka. The…
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February 28, 2018
Stop the Genocide: Dispatch from Bangladesh
“We accuse the government of Myanmar of the crime of genocide.” Mairead Maguire The Nobel laureates met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today. They held a press conference where they again called for an end…
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February 28, 2018
Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide: MEDIA RELEASE
Dhaka – February 28, 2018 As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the…
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February 27, 2018
You are not alone: Dispatch from Bangladesh
“You are not alone in the world. We are with you. We will hold the people who did this to you accountable.” Tawakkol Karman. The Nobel laureates visited No Man’s Land at the Bangladesh-Burma border today. They are calling for sister…
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February 26, 2018
We are not afraid: Dispatch from Bangladesh
February 24th—February 26 “We are not afraid of anything. We want our stories to be told.” Our Standing with Rohingya Women delegation is well underway— the Nobel laureates are on the ground and with our partner, Bangladeshi women’s activist…
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February 22, 2018
Standing with Rohingya Women: Three peace laureates in Bangladesh
On the sixth-month anniversary of the latest cycle of military violence in Burma (Myanmar), Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), and Mairead Maguire (Northern Ireland), are traveling to Bangladesh to assess first-hand the situation of the…
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January 22, 2018
Nobel Peace Laureates call for end of harassment of land defender Maria Choc
Ottawa— 22 January 2018 The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call on the Guatemalan authorities to cease the harassment of Q’eqchi’ community leader and land defender Maria Choc. Maria Choc was arrested…
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January 16, 2018
Foreign Ministers choose to obstruct path to peace on Korean Peninsula
For Immediate Release: Final statement The Vancouver Summit on Korea missed a critical opportunity for peace. Instead of supporting the reduction of tensions in the Korean peninsula that began with the inter-Korean dialogue and the…
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January 09, 2018
Women must be at the peace table to resolve the Korean conflict: JOIN US
Foreign Ministers from around the world will be meeting in Vancouver, Canada on January 16th to discuss security and stability in the Korean Peninsula. Nobel Women’s Initiative will be traveling with a delegation of 16…
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November 27, 2017
Nobel Peace Laureates call for an end to blockade in Yemen
Ottawa—27 November, 2017 The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call on the Saudi and Emirates-led coalition to immediately reopen all land, air and sea ports of Yemen to humanitarian relief for Yemeni…
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September 08, 2017
Time to break the silence: Laureates to Aung San Suu Kyi
Five of the Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative are calling on Aung San Suu Kyi to break her silence on the violence against the Rohingya, the Muslim minority in Burma. The laureates today…
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September 27, 2016
When We Are Bold now available!
Nobel Women’s Initiative is pleased to announce the release of “When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right” – a collection of 28 profiles of women who boldly work for change, by…
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