Nobel Women's Initiative

International Conference: Women Redefining Democracy

Rights of Nature

By Mia MacDonald   Monday, 11 May 2009 It's hard to be immune to the natural beauty here in Antigua. Morning and evening, the hills are shrouded in a light mist. By midday the sun is bright and the colors in the flowers and the vines shimmer.  A number of rainbow-colored parrots sit  ...read more

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Another Morning in Antigua

By Mia MacDonald   Monday, 11 May 2009 It's hard to believe it's the third and final day of the conference. In a way, it seems like we just arrived. In another, it feels like we've been here for weeks, if not longer. We've come to expect conversations across meals and coffee breaks  ...read more

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Sintesis de Discusiones (Spanish)

By Erin Simpson   Esta Conferencia es Una Oportunidad de Fortalecer el apoyo y la solidaridad entre mujeres; Reconocer la diversidad y nutrirnos de ella; Fortalece la labor de las nobel por la paz, la igualdad y la justicia; Hacer un homenaje a las luchas de las mujeres y denunciar  ...read more

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Summaries of Our Discussions

By Erin Simpson   SUMMARY OF DAY ONE This Conference is an Opportunity to Strengthen support and solidarity among women; Acknowledge and nourish ourselves with our diversity; Strengthen the work for peace, equality and justice of the women Nobel Prize Laureates; Pay homage to the  ...read more

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Grounding Realities

By Mia MacDonald   Monday, 11 May 2009 It can be almost easy, here in Antigua, surrounded by extraordinary women—activists, elected officials, academics, journalists, and laureates—to conclude that not only can the world change in the direction we want it to, toward justice, peace and  ...read more

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Flowering?

By Mia MacDonald   Monday, 11 May 2009 “The legitimacy of a government derives from votes of the people and respect for human rights,” laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Monday as a prelude to the conference’s two morning plenary sessions. When these two factors are present, then a  ...read more

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Equity, Not Sequestration

By Mia MacDonald   Sunday, 10 May 2009 There’s something ironic about the NWI conference being held in a former convent, what the Casa Santo Domingo in Antigua is. To be sure, it’s a lovely place, large and sprawling, with long, open colonnades, myriad trees, flowers and shrubs, pocket  ...read more

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