Articles by Nobel Women’s Initiative

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Dispatch from Bangladesh: “This Is Gang Rape, Murder, Torture – A Genocidal Policy to Destroy a Whole People… ” — Mairead Maguire
Nobel Women’s Initiative - Human Wrongs Watch, 12 Mar 2018

27 Feb 2018 — The Nobel laureates visited No Man’s Land at the Bangladesh-Burma border today. They are calling for sister Nobel peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to stop the atrocities, or resign.

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Nobel Women Peace Laureates Call for an End to Rohingya Genocide
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2018

Dhaka – 28 Feb 2018 – As three Nobel peace laureates—Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – conclude their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the current Rohingya crisis, the three women are calling for an immediate end to the “genocide” of the Rohingya people.

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Nobel Peace Laureates Call For Preemptive Ban on “Killer Robots”
Nobel Women’s Initiative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2014

We, the undersigned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, applaud this new global effort and whole-heartedly embrace its goal of a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons that would be able to select and attack targets on their own. It is unconscionable that human beings are expanding research and development of lethal machines that would be able to kill people without human intervention.

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