The Nobel Women's Initiative is an international advocacy organisation based in Ottawa, Canada.
[1] It was created in 2006 by six female winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to support women's groups around the world in campaigning for justice, peace and equality.
[4] The only other living female Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was under house arrest at the time of the initiative's formation.
[5] The initiative's first conference, in 2007, focused on women, conflict and security in the Middle East.
[6] The initiative defines "peace" as "the commitment to quality and justice; a democratic world free of physical, economic, cultural, political, religious, sexual and environmental violence and the constant threat of these forms of violence against women—indeed against all of humanity.