Tawakkol
Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician and senior member of
the of Al-Islah political party, and human rights activist who
heads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she
co-founded in 2005. She became the international public face of
the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings.
She has been called by Yemenis the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of
the Revolution."[10][11] She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel
Peace Prize,[12] becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman,[13]
and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the youngest
Nobel Peace Laureate to date.
[From
Wikipedia]
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/karman.html
http://www.un.org/sg/management/bios/Karman.shtml
