Nobel acknowledges woman power

Three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their nonviolent struggle for safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from Liberia is a 72 year old and was Africa's first elected female head of state in January 2006. She has earned lots of applauds for her work of rebuilding Liberia and is still working very hard to convince people of the change. She would also contest the presidential polls of 2011.








Leymah Gbowee is yet another lady from Liberia who won this honour. She mobilised and organised women across ethnic and religious divides to help bring an end to war in Liberia and to ensure women's participation in elections. Following the 2003 peace treaty, she was instrumental in the victory of Johnson-Sirleaf. She is a commisioner on Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation panel.






Tawakul Karman from Yemen is a 32 year old journalist. Both before and during the Arab Spring, she has played a leading part in the struggle for women's rights and for peace and democracy in Yemen. She is also a member of the Islamist party Islah Was. She is a thorn in the side of the Government and was briefly arrested early this year after leading protests against autocratic Arab rulers. She vowed to galvanise a youth-led uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. 

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