Despite the ongoing uncertainty of the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore, the drive for peace by the people of both North Korea and South Korea is unstoppable. The peace train has left the station, according to women peace and security experts who were in Seoul last week.
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Today, 80 million Korean hearts across the Peninsula are broken by the news of the cancellation of the June 12 Summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim. But the drive for peace by the people of both North Korea and South Korea is unstoppable.
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(Seoul) –– An international delegation of 30 women peace and security experts and activists, as well as other civil society leaders –led by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Korea expert Christine Ahn– and a coalition of South Korean women organizations are calling on the United States and ...read more
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(May 23, 2018—Seoul)
We are here today, as Korean women and thirty women security experts, peace activists and women’s rights organizations from around the world, to support the Korean peace process and to call for women's full inclusion.
Reaffirming the Panmunjeom Declaration of April 27, ...read more
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#WomenPeaceKorea: Press Conference
(Seoul) –– Women need to be part of the Korea peace process. That is the message of the 30 women security experts, peace activists and women’s rights organizations gathering in South Korea from May 23-26, 2018.
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#WomenPeaceKorea: A New Era
South Korea, May 23 - 26
(Washington D.C.) –– An international delegation of 30 peace activists, security experts and civil society leaders will travel to South Korea from May 23-26, 2018, to support the inclusion of civil society women and peace experts in the Korean ...read more
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April 27, 2018 (Ottawa) Over 60 feminist leaders--from Canada, G7 countries and around the world--met in Ottawa for the first-ever feminist summit on the sidelines of the G7, hosted by Canada this year. During the two days together, the diverse group met with Prime Minister ...read more
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Big step forward for Canadian women – but more details needed around direct
funding to women’s rights organizations globally.
(OTTAWA, March 5, 2018) Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) and The MATCH International
Women’s Fund (TMF), two organizations with strong feminist pedigrees, are watching ...read more
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Dhaka – February 28, 2018
As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to ...read more
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Standing with Rohingya Women: Nobel Women 2018 Delegation
Bangladesh, February 24 – March 2
The Nobel Women’s Initiative, in partnership with local Bangladeshi women’s organization, Naripokkho, is organizing a delegation to Bangladesh to witness and highlight the situation of the Rohingya ...read more
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