The Nobel Peace prize was awarded jointly to three champions of women’s rights yesterday, two of them from war-ravaged Liberia and one from current trouble spot Yemen. The Committee in Norway split the prize between Tawakul Karman, who has come to prominence during the Arab Spring as a leader of anti-government protests in Yemen; Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, who campaigned against rape by soldiers during the civil war; and fellow Liberian Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first democrati- cally elected president. The Nobel citation commended the trio’s “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights”. “We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless…
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