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Lunch with Women Human Rights Defenders and Day Three Meetings: Storify

On Sunday, our #WomanLandPeace Delegation met with a number of amazing women human rights defenders and #defensoras for a lunch to discuss the intersection between gender and economic justice. Monday began with a meeting with the Gender Commission in Honduras, followed by a number of other important … [Read more...]

Arrival in Honduras and Day One trip to Rio Blanco: Storify

Our #WomanLandPeace Delegation to Honduras and Guatemala has begun! Follow along for a full recap of final preparations, arrivals and orientation on Friday, and our amazing Day One trip to Rio Blanco to meet with the Lenca people, COPINH community leaders, and family and colleagues of murdered … [Read more...]

Nobel peace laureates head fact-finding mission to Honduras & Guatemala!

Nobel Women's Initiative—in partnership with JASS (Just Associates) and the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation—is pleased to announce our upcoming fact-finding trip — Women, Land and Peace: Delegation to Honduras and Guatemala from October 20-28, 2017! Follow us online at … [Read more...]

Nobel Laureates call for peaceful dialogue between the United States and North Korea

Ten Nobel peace laureates sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary General today, expressing great concern over “the recent and increasing threats of violence between North Korea and the United States”. The laureates call on UN Secretary General António Guterres to “organise an urgent convening … [Read more...]

Whither Now Democracy in Spain?

Today, 9 October, nine Nobel Peace Laureates sent an open letter to leaders of Spain and Catalonia supporting the calls for mediation and negotiations toward a peaceful resolution of the current standoff. Whither Now Democracy in Spain? Mediation and Dialogue or More Violence and … [Read more...]

Nuclear ban campaign receives 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Women’s Initiative warmly congratulates the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on being named the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. As a coalition of non-governmental organisations, ICAN has worked tirelessly over the past ten years to reframe the debate on nuclear … [Read more...]

500 Years: Life in Resistance – Screening and Panel Event

500 Years: Sundance documentary on Guatemala’s resistance comes to Ottawa! Nobel Women’s Initiative in partnership with One World Film Festival and MiningWatch Canada is proud to bring 500 Years: Life in Resistance to Ottawa, Canada on September 29! The much-anticipated documentary by … [Read more...]

Time to break the silence: Nobel Laureates to Aung San Suu Kyi

OPEN LETTER TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI: STOP THE PERSECUTION OF ROHINGYAS Dear State Counsellor and sister Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, In the years leading to your final release in 2010, your struggle for democracy was ours. Your defiant activism and unimaginable sacrifices profoundly inspired us, … [Read more...]

Time to break the silence: Laureates to Aung San Suu Kyi

Five of the Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative are calling on Aung San Suu Kyi to break her silence on the violence against the Rohingya, the Muslim minority in Burma. The laureates today sent a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi asking her to take all measures possible to end the … [Read more...]

Time to be a climate leader: Nobel Laureates to Norway

Five Nobel peace laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative are strongly urging Norway’s Prime Ministerial candidates to show climate leadership. Norway’s elections will take place on Monday 11 September. The Laureates yesterday sent a letter to Erna Solberg and Jonas Gahr Støre to ask for … [Read more...]