2011 Nobel Peace Prize announced
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier today that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africa’s first democratically elected female president. Since her inauguration in 2006, she has contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic and social development, and to strengthening the position of women. Leymah Gbowee mobilized and organized women across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women’s participation in elections. She has since worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa during and after war. In the most trying circumstances, both before and during the “Arab spring”, Tawakkul Karman has played a leading part in the struggle for women’s rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen.
Johnson-Sirleaf’s son James spoke to Reuters on the phone from Monrovia saying “We are very excited. This is very big news and we have to celebrate.”
It is the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s hope that the prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman will help to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can represent.
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07/10/2011 at 4:12 pm
She is very good.
07/10/2011 at 5:06 pm
Congrats to them!
And don’t forget that it was our dear Auns San Suu Kyi once awarded this price too, 20 years ago!
08/10/2011 at 12:01 am
Sono felice che queste tre Donne siano arrivate a questo punto senza mai mollare. Spero che continuino così, sono davvero felice.
08/10/2011 at 1:46 pm
We sorrowfully and painfully buried a women ICON in Kenya today(Proff. Wngari Mathai) and seemingly God has rewarded the girls of the world with three ICONS. Congrat ICONS and may the good Lord bless you for the good work you have done and are doing:
10/10/2011 at 1:21 pm
We truely and really have real Icons in our dear women but the our biological role leads us to working extra hard to be able to come out and be noticed. Women it’s good we support one another while still in action. Togettherness is power. Kenya we are noticing what we have lost in Wangari Mathai after she has died. It’s actually regretable but there we are.
I highly appreciate the three ladies. Well done ladies.
23/10/2011 at 5:22 pm
Men should accept this as a challenge, well women are part of us, lets jointly mantain world peace