Tawakkol karman biography of alberta

Tawakkol Karman

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 in recognition of her work in non-violent struggle for the expression rights, safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work in Yemen.

Upon being awarded the prize, Tawakkol became the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date, at the age of 32.

Karman is a mother of three as well as a human rights activist, journalist, politician,president of Women Journalists without Chains organization.

She is a General Coordinator of peaceful youth revolution council and She is a member of the advisory board for the Transparency International organisation and for several international Human rights NGOs.

Bold and outspoken, Karman has been imprisoned on a number of occasions for her pro-democracy, pro-human rights protests.

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