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Professor Maathai, noted activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, presents her message to the third international Nobel Women's Initiative gathering, focusing on ending sexual violence in conflict. (Video)
Nobel Peace Laureate and honorary member of the Nobel Women's Initiative, Aung San Suu Kyi, sends her support to the 120 women gathering for the Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict conference. (Video)
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A group of foundations and philanthropists who are members of Ariadne – the European wide network of human rights funders – have issued an open letter to politicians and party leaders asking for thoughtful, accurate and truthful consideration of human rights issues in the run up to the UK general
Ofcom received 50 complaints about Channel 4's program on the UK Israel Lobby for which openDemocracy published the pamphlet. It was alleged that the program was biased, anti-semitic and poor journalism. Ofcom found none of these complaints to be grounded. We reproduce the ruling below.
For Gaza and the Palestinian people. A poem written Written by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, during her incarceration in Ramle prison, Israel. 3lst June, 2009
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* Kamin Mohammadi: Iranians far and near
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* Hossein Bastani: Ayatollah Khamenei's calculation
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We call upon all states and multilateral institutions to recognize that the democratization process is incomplete, and does not end with elections. No country or society can claim to be democratic when the women who form half its citizens are denied their right to life, to their human rights and e
