Nobel Women’s Initiative — An Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
Four female Nobel Peace laureates -- Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Rigoberta Menchú Tum -- have sent an open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to reconsider his position and to "call on all governments to support the safe passage of the Freedom Flotilla II."
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