The Nobel Women's Initiative Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program brings three grassroots young women activists from around the world to Ottawa, Canada for 6-weeks of hands-on communications and advocacy training. These young women are at the forefront of movements to promote peace, justice and equality in their communities. Since 2012 the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship program has supported young women activists from Sudan, South Sudan, Liberia, Burma, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
Each person is a unique gift. Many Indigenous Nations prior to contact were oral people, walking libraries who carried songs, stories, teachings and medicines, passing them on to the next generation to ensure the survival of our world-views, ceremonies, and languages. One of the first steps of ...read more
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A woman who convinced more than 35,000 people to take to the streets, petitioning for peace between factions, made a huge difference in this world. At a time when women were only regarded as peacekeepers in the home, she brought peace from the streets to the nation. The story of a Nobel peace ...read more
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A few months ago, I got the news from Nobel Women's Initiative that I had been selected to participate in the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program. I was so ecstatic. My joy knew no bounds. I was like a little child who had just been handed her favourite candy. I knew this was going to be a life ...read more
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My name is Enas AbdAl-jwad. I am a Palestinian women's rights defender working at the Advocacy Desk for the Palestinian Working Women Society for Development (PWWSD). I have a particular interest in working with the Women, Peace and Security agenda through various international instruments and ...read more
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“It is time to stand up, sisters, and do some of the most unthinkable things. We have the power to turn our upsidedown world right.” – Leymah Gbowee
First Act: What brought me here?
On the afternoon of October 19, I took the plane that would take me from Mexico City to Canada. Sitting in the ...read more
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“We have to stop putting youth alone into forums with other youth who already know what the issues are and agree with one another. We have to put youth into spaces with people who disagree with them, even if it’s not a topic that’s related to young people, because all topics are related to young ...read more
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This week Enas AbdAljawwad (Palestine), Carrington Christmas (Mi'kma'ki), Ivette Estefania Galván García (Mexico), Pamela Okoroigwe (Nigeria), Kinda Omarain (Syria), and Thinzar Shunlei Yi (Myanmar) will begin a six-week advocacy and communications training program for young women ...read more
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Join us to welcome four stellar young women’s rights activists to Ottawa for the 2017 Sister-to-Sister Mentorship Program! Alia Soliman (Egypt), Atong Amos Agook (South Sudan), and Yah Parwon (Liberia) will arrive in Ottawa on October 29 to kick off Sister-to-Sister 2017—a six-week advocacy and ...read more
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