Nobel Women's Initiative

The Tibet Fund will present a special Thank You Tibet! program with Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi and co-hosts Ann Curry and Michael Imperioli on March 4th, 2010. This landmark program will honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people for their steadfast commitment to nonviolence as a path to peace and for safeguarding and sharing their unique culture with our global community.

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Under the leadership of women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and our partner organization, the Women's League of Burma, the Nobel Women's Initiative is planning an International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Burma.

The Tribunal will take place in New York City on March 2, 2010 and will coincide with the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women meeting.  Eminent Judges (including Nobel Peace Laureates) will hear personal testimony from several women of Burma who will share their personal stories of having lived through a range of human rights violations under the military regime in Burma.

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Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking). Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking) is a network of local activists working in Northern New Mexico, USA, to protect their peoples and lands from the nuclear weapons industry.  The women work locally for global disarmament.  Since 1943, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has occupied the sacred ancestral homelands of the Pueblo Peoples and displaced Hispanic homesteaders with the establishment of the Manhattan Project on the Pajarito Plateau in the Jemez Mountains.

Learn more about the women and the work of Las Mujeres Hablan.

Meet Molly Malekar. Molly has been involved with Bat Shalom, Israeli Women's Venture for Peace since 1995.  She is part of the spokespersons' team for the Women's Coalition for Just Peace, and previously served as a project coordinator for the Sikkuy Association for the Advancement of Civil Society in Israel.

Listen to Molly talk about her work.

Meet Safaa Elagib Adam. Safaa is a Sudanese peace and gender activist who has worked in relief operations in both Darfur and Eastern Sudan.  Her involvement in Sudanese women's forums since the 4th World Women Conference has been instrumental in voicing women's concerns.  Saafa's role as Gender Expert Team Leader in the 7th round of the Darfur-Sudan Peace talks in Abuja was vital in leading women civil society to the negotiation table.

Learn more about Safaa's work.

Meet Natalia Greene. Natalia is a climate change activist based in Ecuador.  This week she is in Copenhagen, Denmark with climate change activists from all over the globe.  She was actively involved in the recent Constitution process in Ecuador, particularly with the 'Rights to Nature' clause and the role of civil society and indigenous people in the process. The Ecuadorian constitution is the first in the world's history to grant legal rights to nature.

Learn more about Natalia.

Meet Jila Baniyaghoob. Jila is a journalist and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), a news website focused on women’s rights.  As a reporter, she has been present in almost all regional conflicts and wars in the Middle East over the past ten years, including those in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Learn more about Jila.

Meet Lubna Masarwa. Lubna is a Palestinian activist who works as a community organizer for Al Quds University, focusing on educational rights for the thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem who have no schools.  She also works with the community of East Jerusalem in their struggle against the Israeli government's policy of ethnic cleansing Palestinian families through home demolitions and forced displacement.

Read more about Lubna's story.