This past July the Nobel Women’s Initiative led a delegation of prominent human rights activists to the Thai-Burma border, Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad. The resulting report includes recommendations on how to build sustainable peace in Burma and Sudan—and details the work of women’s groups working for ...read more
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Delegation for Women’s Rights
Nobel Women at the UN: Act Now on Darfur, Burma
Nobel Laureates Jody Williams and Wangari Maathai—along with actress-activist Mia Farrow—are in New York at the United Nations, pressing for more concerted international action to end the bloodshed and violence in Sudan, Darfur and Burma.
They released a report that details findings from their ...read more
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The Last Day of Our Trip From Bahai to Home
By Jody Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqjGerkowh8&feature=player_embedded
I’d ended my previous blog noting that when we got back to Bahai from our first visit in Oure Cassoni refugee camp, there was a meeting for us hosted by UNHCR that brought together representatives of ...read more
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Bahai & Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp in Chad
By Anisha Desai
Last time I wrote, which was on Sunday, 3 August, we were sitting in the airport in Addis, waiting for our flight to N’djamena, Chad. Well, that one left about four hours late, but we still did get to the city in time to check in, freshen up a bit, and then go out to ...read more
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Nobel Peace Laureates: International Community Must Commit to Real Peace in Burma and Darfur
In a phone briefing following the Nobel Women's Initiative Delegation, delegates Jody Williams and Wangari Maathai released the following statement:
Nobel Peace Laureates: International Community Must Commit to Real Peace in Burma and Darfur
We must keep up the pressure on the world’s superpowers ...read more
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Peace Laureates Call for Immediate Cessation of Violence in Darfur
Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for Immediate Cessation of Violence in Darfur and Support for the Full Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
--August 1, 2008. (Juba, Southern Sudan)
A delegation of the Nobel Women’s Initiative—including Nobel Peace Laureates Wangari Maathai of ...read more
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On the Way to Chad – Reflections on Juba
By Anisha Desai
It is Sunday, 3 August 2008, and here we are again in the VIP lounge at Addis’ airport. Weren’t we just here a few hours ago!?! Not that there’s anything wrong with being in a VIP lounge, but we’re getting kind of sick of this one. Thankfully, we’re heading out for ...read more
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More From Juba
By Anisha Desai
We started our second day in Juba with a briefing by Mia on the refugee camps in Chad and the situation in Darfur. What can be said about Darfur? Outrage. Anger. Fury that the “international community” does nothing meaningful to stop the carnage? I could go on and ...read more
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