Nobel Women’s Initiative blog

The Nobel Women’s Initiative was established in 2006 by sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire.

The six women - representing North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa - have decided to bring together our extraordinary experiences in a united effort for peace with justice and equality. Only 12 women in its more than 100 year history have been recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize is a great honor, but it is also a great responsibility. It is this sense of responsibility that has compelled them to create the Nobel Women’s Initiative to help strengthen work being done in support of women’s rights around the world - work often carried out in the shadows with little recognition.

We hope you share our excitement about the potential of the Nobel Women’s Initiative to meaningfully contribute to building a culture of peace defined by a commitment to equality and justice- a democratic world free of physical, economic, cultural, political, religious, sexual and environmental violence and the constant threat of these forms of violence against women – indeed against all of humanity.