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Yemen's
Twakkul shares Nobel Peace Prize with two other women
Friday October 07, 2011 03:20:41 PM,
IANS
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Oslo:
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly Friday to three
women -- Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, African activist
Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Tawakkul Karman -- "for their
non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's
rights to full participation in peace-building work".
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africa's first democratically elected
female president. Since her inauguration in 2006, she has
contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic
and social development, and to strengthening the position of
women, the Nobel website said.
Leymah Gbowee mobilised and organised women across ethnic and
religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in
Liberia, and to ensure women's participation in elections. She has
since worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa
during and after war.
In the most trying circumstances, both before and during the "Arab
spring", Tawakkul Karman has played a leading part in the struggle
for women's rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen.
"We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless
women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence
developments at all levels of society," a press statement said.
"It is the Norwegian Nobel Committee's hope that the prize to
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman will help
to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in
many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy
and peace that women can represent."
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite,
established the Nobel Prizes in his will in 1895. The first awards
were handed out six years later.
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