For World Refugee Day last week, we spotlighted the plight of the Rohingya people with the ONLINE PREMIERE of our Standing with Rohingya Women short film. This five minute film follows our February delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel peace laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead ...read more
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Nobel Women’s Initiative Preliminary Findings on Myanmar
UN Human Rights Council Thirty-Seventh session March 2018
The Nobel Women’s Initiative conducted a fact-finding delegation to Bangladesh between February 24 and March 2, to investigate the situation of the Rohingya refugees in ...read more
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On the final two days of the Standing with Rohingya Women delegation, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, and Mairead Maguire brought the stories of the women they met to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, diplomats, the media, and members of civil society in Dhaka. The women called on each group to take ...read more
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"We accuse the government of Myanmar of the crime of genocide." Mairead Maguire
The Nobel laureates met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today. They held a press conference where they again called for an end to thegenocide and persecution of other ethnic minorities in Burma, and for ...read more
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Dhaka – February 28, 2018
As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to ...read more
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"You are not alone in the world. We are with you. We will hold the people who did this to you accountable." Tawakkol Karman.
The Nobel laureates visited No Man's Land at the Bangladesh-Burma border today. They are calling for sister Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to stop the ...read more
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February 24th—February 26
"We are not afraid of anything. We want our stories to be told."
Our Standing with Rohingya Women delegation is well underway— the Nobel laureates are on the ground and with our partner, Bangladeshi women's activist organization, Naripokkho, have visited ...read more
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On the sixth-month anniversary of the latest cycle of military violence in Burma (Myanmar), Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), and Mairead Maguire (Northern Ireland), are traveling to Bangladesh to assess first-hand the situation of the Rohingya refugees and the ...read more
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