Who: Nobel peace laureates –Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) and Jody Williams (USA)
What: Crossing the Polish-Ukraine border to visit Lviv
When: June 22, 2022
Where: Entry to Ukraine via train reaching the Lviv station, return to Poland via the pedestrian crossing at Medyka ...read more
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Three women Nobel peace laureates will travel to Poland and Ukraine to bear witness to the experiences of women displaced from and within Ukraine and to recognize the lifesaving work of women, communities, and women’s organizations and movements. Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) and ...read more
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Feminist leadership is collective and collaborative. It practices power-sharing and mutual accountability. Feminist leadership transforms.
At Nobel Women’s Initiative we are excited to put our collective, accountable, and shared leadership into action. In 2021, we spoke with partners, ...read more
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Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has sent an open letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet calling for the postponement of the visit of UN officials to Iran until Iran agrees to allow Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, to ...read more
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Over a decade ago, women activists took to the streets in great numbers in several Middle East and North African countries to lead and join in the call for wide-ranging social and political reforms.
It was a hopeful time and the promise of a better day shimmered on the horizon. There was ...read more
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President Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine turned the world on its head. He then upped the ante, moving Russia’s nuclear arsenal to a “special mode of combat duty” and putting the world on the precipice of a nuclear crisis. Subsequently Russian ally Belarus changed its constitution to ...read more
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At this dark hour in modern history, we, as Nobel Peace Laureates, are united in our firm opposition to Russia’s attack on the Ukraine. It ends an unprecedented stretch of over 70 years of uninterrupted peace in Europe, the longest in human history. It sets the stage for a calamitous and uncertain ...read more
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Nobel Women’s Initiative joins with Indigenous women in Guatemala in welcoming the recent court ruling that found ex-paramilitaries guilty of crimes against humanity for rape and sexual violence that took place in the early 1980s.
Last week, a Guatemalan court ruled that during the decades-long ...read more
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