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Mark your calendars for the 2025 General Assembly of NPWJ to be held in Budapest on 28 June

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30 Years of commitment

On 18 May 2024, NPWJ celebrated its 30th anniversary
with an international conference in Rome

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Giving a voice to the silenced

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We work for the protection of human rights

No Peace Without Justice is an international non‑profit organisation founded by Emma Bonino and Marco Pannella and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party

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We raise awareness and foster change

through explicitly political campaigns involving partnerships between public institutions, nongovernmental organisations and other societal actors

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No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) is an international non-profit organisation that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice.

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Statement

Statement by No Peace Without Justice on the Assassination of Yanar Mohammed

Brussels / Baghdad — 2 March 2026 No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) mourns with profound grief the assassination of Yanar Mohammed, one of the most courageous and consequential women's rights defenders of our time, who was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad earlier today. Yanar Mohammed spent her life building the world she believed Iraqi women deserved. As the founder of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), she established the country's first shelters for survivors of "honour" killings and trafficking, published the feminist newspaper *Al-Mousawat*, and gave voice — at grave personal risk — to hundreds of...