As Nobel Peace laureates, we are deeply concerned by the ongoing displacements, violence and killings in Cameroon and by the surge of human rights violations in the context of Cameroon’s past and recent elections. This surge of violence did not end with the elections. In fact, people who cast their ...read more
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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland,
2020 has already become a year defined by devastating impacts of climate change. While we celebrated the ambition of countries — including Canada — that demanded the enshrinement of 1.5℃ in the Paris Agreement, it is increasingly ...read more
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COP25 is in full swing, Greta is in Madrid, and yesterday we dropped our fourth episode! This week on When Feminists Rule the World, host Martha Chaves is talking to seventeen-year-old climate striker and Youth for Climate Luxembourg organizer, Selma Vincent, alongside climate justice advocate, ...read more
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Eight Nobel peace laureates are calling on Aung San Suu Kyi to publicly acknowledge crimes — including genocide — committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar. On December 10th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, will be starting public hearings and Aung San Suu Kyi is ...read more
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We JUST dropped the third episode! This week on When Feminists Rule the World, host Martha Chaves is getting real with poet, playwright and activist, Shailja Patel, and Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, and activist, Pamela Palmater. They're talking colonialism, violence, patriarchy, and how they all ...read more
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As Nobel Peace laureates, we are deeply concerned by the recent brutal crackdown against protests in Iran, resulting in thousands of arrests and over 100 deaths in Iran. We condemn the curtailment of freedom of expression and the repression of protests through arbitrary arrest and killings. We ...read more
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Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has written to the President of Iran to express her support for the lifting of economic sanctions against the country—and to call on the President to release all Iranian political prisoners.
In her letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Ebadi calls on Iran’s ...read more
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Nobel laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi joined Tawakkol Karman in Turkey this week for the “Istanbul Conference on Peace in the Middle East: The Impacts of War on Women and Children.” The event was organized by the Tawakkol Karman Global Peace and Democracy Center at the Aydın ...read more
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