Nobel Women's Initiative

Nobel Women's Initiative congratulates President Barack Obama on being announced the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.  Earlier today, his fellow Nobel Peace Laureate, Jody Williams, released the following statement:

President Obama has articulated a vision of a changed world -- one in which we no longer have to fear nuclear weapons, one in which there is respect for international law and a recognition that no individual, no single country, can change the world alone.  I think that in awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee wants to underscore the desperate need for the fulfillment of that vision.  The awarding of the Prize, then, is call to action.  -- Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1997

LEARN MORE

A Nobel Prize for hope, Guardian, 9 October 2009

Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is 'call to action', Reuters, 9 October 2009