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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OPEN LETTER TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI: STOP THE PERSECUTION OF ROHINGYAS
Dear State Counsellor and sister Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,
In the years leading to your final release in 2010, your struggle for democracy was ours. Your defiant activism and unimaginable sacrifices profoundly inspired us, ...read more
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August 28, 2017
Dear Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre,
The global climate crisis is one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity. The world’s most vulnerable are confronting the devastating consequences of our dangerous addiction to oil, coal, and gas every day: from ...read more
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We, the six women Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative, strongly urge the Chinese government to release Liu Xia, the widow of the late Chinese Nobel peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo.
Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer after authorities denied him international medical treatment while a ...read more
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