16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women's Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists working for peace, justice and equality. Stay tuned for 16 Days of Activism 2016 and subscribe to have the spotlights sent right to your inbox!
“I could not live without hope. I try to draw that from history, and from small acts of simple kindness that remind me that people did not always live with such animosity of one another.”
Nikol Awwad is Lebanese-American and has been working for Jafra since 2014. Jafra Foundation is a civil ...read more
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“Lesbian identity in Guatemala is taboo. It was necessary to show it, not only to break and confront that taboo, but more so, to provide the opportunity for the LGBT community to have a representative.”
Sandra Moran joined Guatemala’s human rights movement as a high school student, and later ...read more
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“In Somalia, I want to see peace. I want to see justice. I want to see a rule of law and good policy for women and their rights. I want protection for women to be taken seriously, and I want to see this in my lifetime.”
Fartuun Adan grew up in Somalia and lived there through the war until 1999 ...read more
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“We are women who dare to put a stick in the wheel and obstruct organized crime.”
Patricia Guerrero is a lawyer and human rights defender who helped found the League of Displaced Women in 1999, bringing together women who had been displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict so that they could reclaim ...read more
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“You have to take sides—to speak the truth, even if your voice shakes; to stand on the right side of history. The people I worked with have suffered terribly, but they still want to live. They’re not giving up. And we cannot let them.”
Sadzida Tulić spent her childhood in Libya, where her father ...read more
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“Nobody can tell me I can’t do that!”
Nancy Word is retired from a successful 33-year career in information technology as a Vice President for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Since her retirement, she co-founded a new non-profit organization called Impact Austin, which has provided ...read more
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“If women participate more in political activities and decision making at all levels, it will go a long way in bringing about change.”
Zariyatu (Zari) is a women’s rights advocate and entrepreneur from Nigeria. Since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency—an armed rebellion against the Nigerian ...read more
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“I hope to make people remember all that the forest has given us, and that it is our responsibility to protect it.”
Mariamah “Mayi” Achmad, based in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, is the Palung Foundation’s Coordinator for Environment Awareness Education, and runs the organization Sekolah Lahan ...read more
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