Aisy's was a life full of promise just beginning to be fulfilled.
Women Leading Peace: Delegation Dispatch - Day Three
Lviv, Ukraine
Women Leading Peace: Delegation dispatch - Day Two
Krakow, Poland
Women Leading Peace: Delegation Dispatch - Day One
Krakow, Poland. #World Refugee Day
Rachel Vincent: Nobel Women's Initiative at 10
“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
Valerie Hudson: Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminism, when you look at it, as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work.
Leymah Gbowee: Five Words for The Men of Libya
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee was recently invited to Tripoli to deliver a speech on the role of women in transforming conflict and leading reconciliation in Libya. When she saw who was in the audience, she changed her prepared speech...
Mairead Maguire: Building a Culture of Love
What unites people's movements from the Arab 'spring' to Occupy, is a new consciousness that a good life, with dignity, freedom, fairness and human security, is their right - and by the law of love and logic, the right of every man and woman, says laureate Mairead Maguire.
Leymah Gbowee: Child soldiers, Child Wives Wounded for Life
Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee that the abuse women suffer during conflict is a reflection of the interaction between men and women, boys and girls, during peace time.