By Maria Butler, Executive Director, NWI
In early September, I travelled to Northern Ireland to take part in the Tomorrow’s Women Futures Lab, a six-day leadership program for Palestinian and Israeli women activists, civic changemakers and emerging leaders. Together, we explored questions of leadership, political power and peacebuilding, drawing on Northern Ireland’s own history of conflict, peace and women-led organizing.
APPLICATIONS HAVE CLOSED - DEADLINE 26 June, 2026
Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) invites applications for the 2026 Sister-to-Sister Young Feminist Leadership Program. The full application form is available here.
By Daina Ruduša, Head of Programs, NWI
On 23–24 April 2026, the 18th Kyiv Security Forum took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) was invited by the organizers to participate for the first time.
April 7, 2026 Update by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Iran is in an extremely dire situation. Trump has stated that if the strait is not reopened by Wednesday, he will order the bombing and shutdown of critical infrastructure and power plants.
April 4, 2026 Update by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
For more than a month, Iran has been trapped in a devastating war, a war that the Iranian people neither started nor asked for. Yesterday, Donald Trump, in a threatening tone, said that he would send Iran “back to the Stone Age.”
By Juno Hassan
“We stand on the shoulders of giants…we are in the presence of the giants that carried us.” - Wanjira Maathai
By Maria Butler
“We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations… to rise up and walk.” — Wangari Maathai
By Ringisai Susara Campbell
By Paola Pacheco
For invitation of Nobel Women's Initiative, on October 10, 2025, women human rights defenders from Mesoamerica took a flight from Mexico City to the center of multilateralism: Geneva. Hours earlier, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to María Corina Machado of Venezuela.
By Violeta Valdés Alcantara
We felt the reflection of not having had a single break this year because of security emergencies that we have had to face.