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Nobel Laureates, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, and
Mairead Maguire will open Women Forging a New
Security: Ending Sexual Violence
in Conflict today at 9
am EST. Follow along on our
blog.
Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate and honorary member of the Nobel Women's Initiative, Aung San Suu Kyi, sent a video message emphasizing the critical
importance of ending sexual violence in conflict. Watch it here.
Over 120 civil
society activists, corporate and security sector leaders, military and
peacekeeping personnel, and academics from around the world are convening to discuss strategies
for ending sexual violence in conflict over three days in Canada.
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us online through the conference blog. Watch for video
clips, blog entries from participants and more. Writer and feminist Jaclyn Friedman will be live-blogging three of the panel sessions at Feministe.com.
Click here to learn how to find her.
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