TAWAKKOL KARMAN is the second youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.

She is a Yemeni politician, journalist and human rights activist. She gained prominence after 2005 in her role as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate. Tawakkol karman is the co-founder of the human rights group Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC). She has promoted the struggle for democracy and human rights particularly freedom of expression and opinion.

Her involvement in actions and demonstrations critical of the Yemini regime has led to her arrest and murder threats on numerous occasions. She is also a member of Yemeni Journalist’s Syndicate. Her active participation in 2011 protests against the ruling regimes, lead her to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is the part of Arab Spring uprisings.

Karman has reportedly been called the “Iron Woman” and “Mother of the Revolution” by Yemenis. She is the first Yemeni and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. In 2012 she received an Honorary Doctorate in International Law from the University of Alberta in Canada. 

Tawakkol was honored with the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 at The Asian Awards.

 She was appointed to Facebook’s content oversight board on May 6 2020.She has continued to speak out against injustices committed in Yemen, together with the war waged by the Saudi-UAE coalition and US drone attacks in her homeland.