CGNK Honorary Sponsor Máiread Maguire Detained

Nobel Peace Laureate Máiread Maguire was detained this week by Israeli forces following an attempt to take aid and human rights activists to the Gaza Strip in defiance of the blockade of the territory imposed by the State of Israel. According to the report posted on bbc.co.uk Maguire was being held with other 20 passengers that where travelling in the U.S.-based Free Gaza Movement’ ship “Spirit of Humanity”, also including former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.

Nobel Peace Laureate (1976), Máiread is Honorary President and co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People, an organization which encouraged the peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She also was one of the founders of The Nobel Women’s Initiative and is member of the Honorary board of the International Coalition for the Decade of the culture of Peace and Nonviolence. Máiread is a Honorary Sponsor of the Center for Global Nonkilling and has actively supported the inclusion of the 13th principle of the Charter for a World without Violence, urging all to work toward a “killing-free world in which everyone has the right not to be killed and responsibility not to kill others.”