Trio of Women Win Nobel Peace Prize

October 07, 2011 from Al Jazeera English

A president, a women's rights campaigner, and a peace activist, all women, were named winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The three women from the developing world, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Yemeni women's rights activist Tawakul Karman, and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee were named by the Norwegian Nobel Committee at a ceremony in the capital, Oslo, on Friday. They were honored for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from Monrovia, Liberia.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually to those who... Explore this topic

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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 instit... Explore this topic

Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of pea... Explore this topic

Tawakul Karman

Tawakkol Karman became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. 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, becoming the first Y... Explore this topic

Yemen

Yemen officially known as the Republic of Yemen, is an Arab country located in Western Asia, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the south... Explore this topic

Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Côte d'Ivoire to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 km² and is home to about 3.7 million people. English is the official language and over... Explore this topic

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Yemen Uprising

The Yemeni Revolution followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution and other mass protests in the Middle East in early 2011. In its early phase, protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment, economic c... Explore this topic

Second Liberian Civil War

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 when a rebel group backed by the government of neighbouring Guinea, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, emerged in northern Liberia. In early 2003, a second rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia, emerg... Explore this topic

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