
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Three Activist Women

LONDON — The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three campaigning women from Africa and the Arab world in acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality. The winners were President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of
Liberia — Africa’s first elected female president — her compatriot, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakul Karman of
Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner.
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