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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Media Releases
Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide: MEDIA RELEASE
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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Three Nobel peace laureates to visit Rohingya women in Bangladesh: Media Advisory
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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Nobel Peace Laureates call for end of harassment of land defender Maria Choc
Ottawa— 22 January 2018
The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call on the Guatemalan authorities to cease the harassment of Q'eqchi' community leader and land defender Maria Choc. Maria Choc was arrested without a warrant on January 17, 2018 in Puerto Barrios while providing ...read more
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Nobel Peace Laureates call immediate release of land defender Maria Choc
Ottawa— 18 January 2018
The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call on the Guatemalan authorities to immediately release Q'eqchi' community leader and land defender Maria Choc. She was arrested without a warrant in Puerto Barrios while providing translation in a hearing for a ...read more
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Foreign Ministers choose to obstruct path to peace on Korean Peninsula
For Immediate Release: Final statement
The Vancouver Summit on Korea missed a critical opportunity for peace. Instead of supporting the reduction of tensions in the Korean peninsula that began with the inter-Korean dialogue and the Olympics truce, the Foreign Ministers chose to further isolate ...read more
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Statement of the Vancouver Women’s Forum on Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula
VANCOUVER -- As sixteen delegates representing peace movements from all over the world, we have traveled from Asia, Pacific, Europe, and North America to convene the Vancouver Women’s Forum on Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula, an event held in solidarity with Canada’s Feminist Foreign ...read more
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Four Nobel peace laureates urge Iran to respect the rights of protesters
Ottawa - January 11, 2018
Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to conduct credible independent investigations into the use of violence, especially lethal violence, and mass arrests in reaction to protests held in ...read more
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Nobel Women’s Statement on Political Crisis in Honduras
December 15, 2017
Dear President Hernandez,
I write as Chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and on behalf of six women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, to express our grave concern regarding the human rights violations currently taking place in Honduras since the November 26 elections.
As you ...read more
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Nobel Peace Laureates call for an end to blockade in Yemen
Ottawa—27 November, 2017
The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call on the Saudi and Emirates-led coalition to immediately reopen all land, air and sea ports of Yemen to humanitarian relief for Yemeni civilians. The ongoing land, sea, and air blockade, and the recent air raid ...read more
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