The US magazine, Glamour, this week named the Nobel Women’s Initiative one of ten winners of their annual Women of the Year award. The magazine noted that since 2006 the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Betty Williams and Jody Williams have used their “clout with world leaders to get them to take a stand against violence and work for peace and human rights”.

Glamour Magazine Announces 2008 Women of the Year on NBC's Today Show

Other winners this year include Hillary Clinton, Nicole Kidman (Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women) and human rights lawyer Shada Nasser who obtained a historic divorce for 10-year-old Yemeni child bride Nujood Ali.

The 2008 Women of the Year will be profiled in the December issue of the magazine—hitting the newsstands on November 11th. To learn more, check out this recent interview on NBC’s Today Show.