Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activist · Yemen · On the map · Journalists · Born 1979 · age 47
Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She co-founded and leads 'Women Journalists Without Chains', a group established in 2005 to advocate for press freedom and human rights.
Tawakkol Karman is read about 222 times a day, in 83 languages.
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Tawakkol Karman protests outside the UN building, 18 October 2011.
Protest on the "Day of Rage" that Karman had called for in Sana'a, Yemen, from 3 February 2011.
From left to right: Tawakkul Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf display their awards during the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize, 10 December 2011.
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, The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived.
Democracy can't thrive under military rule - history is quite clear on this point ... The police state is back, and it is even worse than Hosni Mubarak's.
The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive.
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She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that was part of the Arab Spring movement. She was often referred as the 'Iron Woman' and the 'Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work". She became the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize.
