The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work".

Image removed.Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the 24th and current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a very distant second in the 1997 presidential election. Later, she was elected President in the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006. Sirleaf is the first and currently the only elected female head of state in Africa.

 

 

 

Image removed.Leymah Gbowee

Liberia

Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born. 1972) is an African peace activist responsible for organising a peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. This led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president. She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".

 

 

 

 

Image removed.Tawakel Karman

Yemen

Tawakel Karman  is a Yemeni journalist and politician who is a senior member of Al-Islah and a human rights activist who heads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains", which she co-founded in 2005. Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service in 2007, after which she led protests for press freedom. Karman organized weekly protests after May 2007. She then became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that was a part of the Arab Spring. She has been called by Yemenis the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution". She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the first Arab woman and first Yemeni citizen to win a Nobel Prize.

 

 

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