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Video: Voices from the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference

Participants at the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference talk about memory, activism after trauma, what women's movements can learn from each other – and much more.

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Yanar Mohammed is president of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, which has recently established women's shelters in Mosul to aid survivors of ISIS enslavement and women affected by conflict in the area. Read her 2015 interview with Jennifer Allsopp.

Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1976, with Betty Williams, for her work to end the political conflict in her native Northern Ireland. She is co-founder of Peace People, a movement to build a just and peaceful society through nonviolent social action.