Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Karman (born February 7, 1979, Ta’izz, Yemen) is a human rights activist, journalist, politician, she is the first Arab woman, the first Yemeni woman, and the second Muslim woman to win the award, and was —at the time— ¬¬the youngest laureate in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tawakkol Karman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, in recognition for her non-violent struggle for democracy and her advocacy for women’s rights in Yemen.
Karman has been imprisoned on a number of occasions for her pro-democracy, pro-human rights protests. Amongst Yemen’s Youth movement, she is known as “mother of the revolution”, “the iron woman”, and the Lady of the Arab Spring.

She is the Founder of Tawakkol Karman International Foundation, the president of Women Journalists Without Chains organization, the Founder Peaceful Youth Revolution Council, ​and is a member of several international Human Rights NGOs.
She is also a board member of the Facebook oversight board and Nobel Women initiative.

THer courageous work has been recognized internationally: TIME Magazine described her as a 'Torchbearer of the Arab Spring' and named her both one of the 100 most influential women defining the last century and one of the Most Rebellious Women in History; one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for three years; one of CNN’s list of most powerful women in the Arab world.
She was member of the High-Level Panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.