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July 29, 2008

Nobel Women's Initiative
For real-time accounts of this historic journey, you can follow along at the delegation’s special blog page <http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/blog>  where Jody Williams and others are posting updates and reflections on what the delegation is up to. Right now, you can read about the delegation’s week in Thailand, including an event at Chiang Mai University on July 21st where delegation members met with Thai women of ethnic minorities and women from Burma and participated in a four-hour seminar before an audience of over 700 people. What’s more, you can check out delegation photos at this flickr page <http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobelwomensinitiative/> .
 
To get word out to the international community about what they heard and learned on their first week, members of the delegation held a media briefing in Bangkok on July 25th where they shared testimonies gathered from survivors of Cyclone Nargis, women’s groups, prisoner rights groups, and civil society organizations with members of the international press. Mia Farrow told reporters that the world should use the upcoming Beijing Olympics as a platform for demanding that China end its support for Burma’s military junta. Click here for more on the press conference <http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/news-event-news/41/258-nobel-womens-initiative-hosts-a-media-briefing-in-bangkok> .
 
Delegation leadership has been joined by Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai as the next leg of the journey begins. Now in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the delegation will spend the upcoming week traveling through Juba in South Sudan and Chadian refugee camps bordering Darfur. Stay tuned for updates on the delegation’s meetings with women’s groups, parliamentarians, and representatives of the African Union.
 
 
 
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