Nobel Women's Initiative

Creating sustainable peace is like cooking a good meal -- both take many ingredients, patience, love and attention. Both are best when they involve sharing and understanding.  In Ingredients for Peace global peacemakers share recipes and thoughts on peace.

Try Archbishop Desmond Tutu's "Tutu Chicken,"  Wangari Maathai's "Stewed Spinach & Amaranth,"  Mia Farrow's "Awesome Pancakes," or Eve Ensler's "Activist Pasta."  More than 60 activists from all walks of life share their thoughts and favorite recipes.

Read the USA Today story, and listen to Jody Williams talk about the cookbook.

World leaders are gathering in Copenhagen in just 13 days to negotiate a new global climate agreement.

Tell yours that you are ready for leadership. Tell them you want a bold, ambitious, and fair agreement. They CAN
achieve an ambitious, just deal in Copenhagen if they try. The world is watching. And we are insisting.

PLEASE JOIN Thank You Tibet! to show your support and appreciation to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people for their culture of wisdom and compassion and their steadfast commitment to nonviolence as the path to peace.   

JOIN the Thank You Tibet! campaign and create a message in any medium -- video, music, visual art, photography, and/or text -- to express the ways that Tibetan culture and spirituality have inspired you and changed your life.   Your message will be seen on line by a worldwide community and selections will be presented during a special program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in March 2010 and to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Visit www.thankyoutibet.org to submit your message.

In a show of solidarity with Honduran Feminists in Resistance, women throughout the Americas are mobilizing to pressure the US government and international organizations to take a stronger stand against the June 28 coup in Honduras.

On July 22nd, Nobel Women's Initiative partners Just Associates (JASS), Las Petateras, Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE), and other feminist allies organized and participated in simultaneous demonstrations in front of U.S. government institutions throughout the Americas demanding the Obama administration firmly condemn the coup and demand the reinstatement of the democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya.

Leading human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, was abducted near her home in Grozny on the morning of 15 July 2009. Natalia was killed and her body dumped in neighbouring Ingushetia. The international community mourns the unnecessary death of a champion human rights defender and a dear friend.

As a researcher with the leading Russian human rights group Memorial, Estemirova had been at the forefront of efforts to investigate human rights abuses and seek justice for their victims for close to a decade. Estemirova received many international prizes in recognition of her important human rights work, including the European Parliament's Robert Schuman medal in 2005, and the "Right to Life" award from the Swedish Parliament in 2004. In 2007, she was also the first recipient of the Anna Politkovskaya Award. The award was presented to Estemirova in honor of her friend and colleague, slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

One hundred prominent figures including Nobel Peace laureates Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Desmond Tutu signed a letter calling on Russia to find the killers of activist Natalia Estemirova, saying there was "nothing more dangerous than telling the truth in today's Russia".

Estemirova's murder, the latest in a series of killings of journalists and human rights campaigners in Russia, has drawn international condemnation.

To read the letter click here

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• Post your messages of solidarity and support on the RAW website.
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In solidarity with the people of Iraq, on 22 and 23 February, Oil Change International, US Labor Against the War and Hands Off Iraqi Oil are organizing an international day of action to demand an end to the military and economic occupation of Iraq.

While the Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the war in Iraq is not about oil, U.S. oil corporations are poised to take control over the 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves - 10 percent of the world total. The Bush administration's proposed new oil law for Iraq, set to go before Iraq's Parliament, would transform Iraq's oil industry from a nationalized model to a commercial model that is much more open to U.S. corporate control. Its provisions allow much (if not most) of Iraq's oil revenues to flow out of Iraq and into the pockets of international oil companies.