For the first time ever, the G7 engagement process includes a summit of diverse feminist leaders - the W7: Feminist Visions for the G7. The W7 will bring together feminists who are trailblazers in their communities, ensuring that marginalized voices can engage equally in decision and policy-making ...read more
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Nobel Women’s Initiative Preliminary Findings on Myanmar
UN Human Rights Council Thirty-Seventh session March 2018
The Nobel Women’s Initiative conducted a fact-finding delegation to Bangladesh between February 24 and March 2, to investigate the situation of the Rohingya refugees in ...read more
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Foreign Ministers from around the world will be meeting in Vancouver, Canada on January 16th to discuss security and stability in the Korean Peninsula. Nobel Women’s Initiative will be traveling with a delegation of 16 women experts representing feminist peace movements from across the globe, to be ...read more
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Nobel Women's Initiative—in partnership with JASS (Just Associates) and the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation—is pleased to announce our upcoming fact-finding trip — Women, Land and Peace: Delegation to Honduras and Guatemala from October 20-28, 2017! Follow us online at ...read more
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Ten Nobel peace laureates sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary General today, expressing great concern over “the recent and increasing threats of violence between North Korea and the United States”. The laureates call on UN Secretary General António Guterres to “organise an urgent convening ...read more
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Today, 9 October, nine Nobel Peace Laureates sent an open letter to leaders of Spain and Catalonia supporting the calls for mediation and negotiations toward a peaceful resolution of the current standoff.
Whither Now Democracy in Spain? Mediation and Dialogue or More Violence and ...read more
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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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