MONROVIA – The Nobel Women’s Initiative 2019 Conference would commence today at the Monrovia City Hall for the next three days.
Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, Rigoberta Manchu, and Laymah Gbowee, who are all Nobel Peace Laureates are all in the country for the conference.
Madam Laymah Gbowee, host of the conference, told reporters on Monday that the group assembles every two years across the global to celebrate young people.
According to Madam Gbowee, the group’s objective is to seek an end violence globally and create space for universal security in building human rights, justice and equality for people.
She said the Nobel Women’s Initiative 2019 Conference would be graced by President George Weah and other high-profile individuals.
About Nobel Women’s Initiative
The Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates—Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, and Leymah Gbowee—to magnify the power and visibility of women working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. The six women bring together their extraordinary experiences and work to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. The Nobel Women’s Initiative was established in 2006.
Their Vision
A world transformed through a rejection of war, violence and militarism where global security is built around human rights, justice and equality for people and communities—human security—rather than the security of the nation state. It is a world where sustainable peace and protection of the environment on which all life depends is our collective priority.
Their Mission
It is our mission as women recipients of the Nobel peace prize to work together to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world. We work to strengthen and expand feminist efforts to promote nonviolent solutions to war, violence and militarism.
How They Work
We believe change is possible because individually and collectively we have had the privilege of participating in and witnessing extraordinary human efforts to transform our world. We know that the seemingly impossible is very possible when women work together to make it so.