The Nobel Women’s Initiative warmly congratulates the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on being named the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. As a coalition of non-governmental organisations, ICAN has worked tirelessly over the past ten years to reframe the debate on nuclear ...read more
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500 Years: Sundance documentary on Guatemala’s resistance comes to Ottawa!
Nobel Women’s Initiative in partnership with One World Film Festival and MiningWatch Canada is proud to bring 500 Years: Life in Resistance to Ottawa, Canada on September 29!
The much-anticipated documentary by ...read more
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Five of the Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative are calling on Aung San Suu Kyi to break her silence on the violence against the Rohingya, the Muslim minority in Burma.
The laureates today sent a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi asking her to take all measures possible to end the ...read more
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Five Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative are strongly urging Norway’s Prime Ministerial candidates to show climate leadership. Norway’s elections will take place on Monday 11 September.
The Laureates yesterday sent a letter to Erna Solberg and Jonas Gahr Støre to ask for ...read more
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The Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative strongly urge the Chinese government to release Liu Xia from custody. The widow of late Chinese Nobel peace laureate was last seen at her husband, Liu Xiaobo’s, burial. Her friends and family have not been able to contact her since then. This ...read more
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Women are coming together to stand in solidarity with the anti-racist protestors who were violently attacked by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12. The Women’s March has worked with 16 different partners to mobilize 700 protests and vigils all over the United States. In ...read more
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Last week the MATCH International Women’s Fund and the Nobel Women’s Initiative hosted Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro of the Global Fund for Women, and Theo Sowa of the African Women’s Development Fund. The women were in Ottawa, Canada to speak with Canadian civil society leaders and Global Affairs Canada ...read more
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Iranian human rights organizations and the Nobel Women's Initiative are calling for the institution of a yearly 'Day for Mothers in Prison'. The groups say that the fundamental rights and needs of mothers who are imprisoned—such as access to their children—are not typically respected around the ...read more
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The Nobel Women's Initiative has released a statement in response to the New York Times exposé revealing that spyware sold to the Mexican government - which was intended to monitor drug cartels, terrorists, and criminals - has been misused to monitor human rights defenders and other civil society ...read more
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On Friday the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons—122 states have signed on to this binding agreement. Activists are calling this a historic moment for disarmament. The Nobel Women’s Initiative has released a statement “[congratulating] the International Campaign ...read more
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