Articles tagged with: peace prize
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Tuesday, 18 Oct, 2011
The 32-year-old wears her scarf loosely, a style more familiar in Iran or the Gulf than Yemen and she hasn’t settled her mind yet about the prize that has put her at the center of one the biggest news stories of the decade: the uprisings in the Arab World.
It should have come as no surprise then that the Norwegian Nobel Committee would look to the tumultuous Middle East to find someone who was fighting to gain ground for peace. It did come as a surprise, albeit a satisfying one ...
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Tuesday, 11 Oct, 2011
Last Friday the Nobel Prize committee awarded the Peace Prize to three women for their non-violent role in promoting peace and gender equality. The three recipients included Tawakkol Karman, a liberal Islamist from Yemen who has been leading protests against President Saleh since the Arab Spring began earlier this year. The other two recipients were Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson of Liberia — the first woman to be elected president in modern Africa — and her fellow peace activist Leymah Gbowee....
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