TheNobel Women's Initiative is an international advocacy organisation based inOttawa, Canada.[1] It was created in 2006 by six female winners of theNobel Peace Prize to support women's groups around the world in campaigning forjustice, peace andequality.[2][3] The six founders areShirin Ebadi,Wangari Maathai,Rigoberta Menchú,Jody Williams,Mairead Maguire, andBetty Williams.[4] The only other living female Nobel Peace Prize winner,Aung San Suu Kyi, was under house arrest at the time of the initiative's formation. She became an honorary member on her release in 2010.[5] The initiative's first conference, in 2007, focused on women, conflict and security in theMiddle East.[6]
The initiative defines "peace" as "the commitment to quality 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."[7][self-published source]
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