Tawakkol Karman
(1979-)

Yemeni Human Rights Activist, Journalist, Politician

2011 Nobel Peace Prize

birthdate: February 7
birthplace: Taiz, Yemen

Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician and senior member of the of Al-Islah political party, and human rights activist who heads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. She has been called by Yemenis the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution."[10][11] She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize,[12] becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman,[13] and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date.
[From Wikipedia]

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/karman.html
http://www.un.org/sg/management/bios/Karman.shtml

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