Chairwoman Activities

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has arrived in Germany to take part at Nobel Women’s Initiative conference with the participation of women from different countries of the world.

The Nobel Women's Initiative biannual conference, which is being held this year in Germany from May13-16, has brought together also activists living in exile, such as Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi of Iran and Yanar Mohammed of Iraq and Majd Chourbaji of Syria, to shed light on their experiences of working for women’s rights in countries where they no longer live.

Indigenous women defending human rights, such as Andrea Ixchíu Hernández from Guatemala and Helen Knott from Prophet Rivers First Nations, will discuss and share their experiences with women like Julienne Lusenge, a feminist from the Democratic Republic of Congo who, against all odds, continues to fight back against rape and gender violence in her country.

The theme of this year’s Nobel Women's Initiative biannual conference has been influenced by both the current political tumult in the US and around the world coupled with the massive activist response.

Under the conference banner, A Global Feminist Resistance: The Evolution and Revolution, Adapting to Survive Thrive, women from more than a dozen countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine to mention a few, are coming together to share strategies and tactics from different cultures and experience.