Tawakkol Karman

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Tawakkol Karman

Yemeni women’s rights activist

Also known as: Tawakul Karman

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Also spelled:: Tawakkul Karmān

Born:: February 7, 1979, Taʿizz, Yemen (age 45)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (2011)

Role In:: women’s rights movement

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Tawakkol Karman (born February 7, 1979, Taʿizz, Yemen) is a Yemeni women’s rights activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her role in leading a pro-democracy protest movement. She shared the prize with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, who were also recognized for leading nonviolent campaigns for women’s rights and democratic freedoms. Karman was born into a politically active family in Taʿizz. When she was young, her family moved to Sanaa, where her father, ʿAbd al-Salām Karmān, a lawyer, served as minister of legal affairs before resigning in 1994 over the government’s war against secessionists in ...(100 of 413 words)

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