As we start the new year with enthusiasm for the organizational transition and renewal now underway, we invite you to join us in taking a grateful look back at the formidable legacy of Liz Bernstein — who, after leading the organization since its inception, is moving on from Nobel Women’s … [Read more...]
Welcome Tania Principe, Interim Executive Director
In December, we announced Community Resource Exchange as the team leading an independent external review of our organization and we bade farewell to our two Co-Executive Directors. After an extensive search, our Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Tania Principe as Interim Executive … [Read more...]
From the Laureates: Thank you for your support and we look forward to your solidarity in 2021!
As you know, Nobel Women's Initiative exists to help create a world transformed through a rejection of war, militarism, violence, and discrimination. We believe global security is about human security. Nothing like a global pandemic to reveal the inherent tension between ensuring the security of … [Read more...]
Best Global Feminist Reads 2020
Published in 2020 or in English translation in 2020 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Translated by Jamie Chang South Korea Banality of misogyny https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/19/kim-jiyoung-born-1982-cho-nam-joo-bestseller-review Breasts and Eggs by Meiko … [Read more...]
NASRIN documentary opens December 18th in Canada and U.S.
“STIRRING. EYE-OPENING. VIVID. EXTRAORDINARY.” - The Hollywood Reporter Secretly filmed in Iran, with the filmmakers risking arrest, NASRIN is an immersive portrait of the world’s most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of the remarkably resilient Iranian … [Read more...]
Calling for applications for First Nations, Métis and Inuit young women activists
Do you work with an incredible young woman First Nations, Métis or Inuit activist, based in central or eastern Canada, who could benefit from intensive communications and advocacy training? If so, we want to hear from you! We are thrilled to announce that the Nobel Women’s Initiative, in … [Read more...]
Meet Nedal Al-Salman, Bahrain
“No one will support me more than another woman human rights activist. Women have my back.” Nedal Al-Salman is the Acting President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) documents and reports on human rights violations in Bahrain. Despite a … [Read more...]
Meet Azza Soliman, Egypt
“The more resistant and resilient we are, the more we push the state and people to change their mindset towards respecting women and human rights.” Azza Soliman is an Egyptian lawyer, woman human rights defender and feminist. She is a co-founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal … [Read more...]
Meet Joumana Seif, Syria
“The Syrian regime actually invests in patriarchy. It does this to exclude women. And the regime benefits from patriarchy when women are excluded from political life and public life.” Joumana Seif is a Syrian activist and lawyer. Her father, a dissident member of Parliament, went to … [Read more...]
Release Nasrin Sotoudeh: Nobel Peace Laureates
The Nobel Women’s Initiative—led by Nobel peace laureates Leymah Gbowee, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Jody Williams—calls on the international community to press the government of Iran to permanently and unconditionally release from prison acclaimed human rights attorney … [Read more...]
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