Ottawa—February 13, 2019.
The Nobel Women’s Initiative today launched InterviewHer, a global database that helps connect media to a wide range of women experts on conflict, peace and security from around the world. Research from the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project – which analyses media ...read more
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Ottawa—10 February 2019
Yesterday, we heard —through the media— of the allegations of sexual assault made against former President and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate, Oscar Arias. We have also learnt that a criminal complaint was filed against him in Costa Rica.
The #MeToo era is revealing how ...read more
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December 4 - 6, 2018
2018 has been a year of historic change on the Korean Peninsula where the threat of nuclear war has been eclipsed by the prospect of finally ending the 70-year Korean War with a peace process and a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
In 2018, Korean leaders, Kim Jong Un, ...read more
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Feminist activists share issues and priorities with the first-ever meeting of Women Foreign Ministers
(OTTAWA, September 26, 2018) A coalition of Canadian civil society organizations welcome the successful conclusion of a fruitful exchange between participants in the first-ever women Foreign ...read more
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Ottawa — 19 September 2018
The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative call on the Honduran government to ensure that there is a fair and just trial for those individuals being charged with the murder of Berta Cáceres, land and human rights defender assassinated in her home on March ...read more
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Civil society statement on the occasion of the Women Foreign Ministers Meeting
21-22 September 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
We, the undersigned organizations, call on Women Foreign Ministers gathered in Montreal, on the eve of the High-Level General Debate of the 73rd Session of ...read more
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Ottawa—20 August 2018
The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen, and for the creation of an international investigative committee into the August 9 Saudi and Emirates-led coalition air attacks on Yemeni civilians. ...read more
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The African Women’s Development Fund is the second women’s fund selected as an implementing agency for Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership initiative.
(OTTAWA, August 14, 2018). Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) and The MATCH International Women’s Fund (The MATCH Fund) welcome ...read more
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