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| Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) |
The Nobel Peace Prize Winners for 2011
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| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
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| Leymah Gbowee |
Tawakel Karman is called The Mother of the Revolution, the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She is a journalist and politician and human rights activist who heads a group Women Journalists Without Chains”. She influenced the Yemeni protests to follow the Arab Spring (or, as she calls it, the Jasmine Revolution). Yemen was one of the first countries to follow Tunisia as part of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first and currently the only elected female head of state in Africa. “She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.
During the 2011 Libyan civil war, Sirleaf added her voice to a chorus of calls from the international community for Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to cease the use of violence and tactics of political repression. However, she criticized the international military intervention in Libya, declaring that "violence does not help the process whichever way it comes".” (quoted from Wikipedia)
"Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee, 39, mobilised women from across Liberia's ethnic and religious divides to call for an end to Liberia's brutal 14-year civil war.
Amid the shells and bullets, they prayed and protested for days on end, demanding that the conflict between former President Charles Taylor and rebel forces stop. "In 2003, it was very difficult. We had lived with 14 years of conflict. A group of us, women, decided to take action for peace - including picketing, fasting and praying," Ms Gbowee told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"This [award] is a huge recognition of the struggle of our women." " See full BBC article here.
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