The fifth and final session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine drew to a close in Brussels last week. Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, alongside fellow Tribunal judges, issued a call to action for civil society to hold Israel accountable to its international commitments and end crimes against ...read more
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Nobel Laureate Jody Williams’ new memoir released March 1
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams' new memoir My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize is an inside story of courage and perseverance in grassroots activism. It will be released by the University of California Press on March 1, 2013.
Williams was first ...read more
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Keep dirty oil out of New England: Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams’ opinion piece on the importance of keeping dirty oil from Canada’s Alberta tar sands out of New England was published in the Boston Globe.
She warned that the proposed pipeline from the Alberta, Canada to Portland, Maine would fuel climate change by ...read more
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Rigoberta Menchú Tum commends ruling on trial of Rios Montt
Former dictator José Efrain Ríos Montt and former general José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez will stand trial in Guatemala for genocide and crimes against humanity. The evidence against the military leaders includes thousands of atrocities committed by the armed forces under their command from 1982 to ...read more
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Shirin Ebadi reports on human rights, Nov – Dec 2012
Nobel Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi released her November/December 2012 review of human rights in Iran. In this segment Ebadi focuses in particular on the welfare of children.
Ebadi highlights a recent case in which 31 girls were wounded in a fire at a West Azerbayjan Province school; two of ...read more
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Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman join the Nobel Women’s Initiative!
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is thrilled to announce the addition of two new Nobel Peace Laureates!
2011 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipients Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman have joined the Nobel Women’s Initiative, in partnership with fellow Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire, ...read more
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Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
It is with great sadness that the family of Professor Wangari Maathai announces her passing away on 25th September, 2011, at the Nairobi Hospital, after a prolonged and bravely borne struggle with cancer. Her loved ones were with her at the time.
Professor Maathai’s departure is untimely and a very ...read more
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