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Tawakkol Karman

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Born: 7 February 1979, Ta'izz, Yemen

Residence at the time of the award: Yemen

Prize motivation: "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

Prize share: 1/3

Karman became the first Arab woman, the youngest person at that time to have become a Nobel Peace Laureate and the category's second Muslim woman.