Petition for Gisele Pelicot to win Nobel Peace Prize passes 125,000 signatures A UK-based petition calling for Gisele Pelicot to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has received more than 125,000 signatures.
Catherine Mayer, 63, from London, a veteran journalist and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, started a petition to urge the Nobel Committee to recognise Ms Pelicot with one of the world’s most prestigious honours.
Ms Pelicot, 72, a retired logistics manager, was drugged by her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, to render her unconscious, and then raped by him and dozens of other men, between 2011 and 2020.
Ms Pelicot was named by the Financial Times as one of the 25 most influential women of 2024, and featured in the BBC’s 100 Women list the same year.
Ms Mayer said Ms Pelicot’s “viscerally hideous” case was a “teaching moment” for the world.
