TIME has put the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, among 100 Women of the Year , describing her as “the torchbearer of the Arab Spring”.
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Three human rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Tawakkol Karman, went today to the Burmese border for a closer look at the situation of displaced Rohingyas, assess the violence and crimes against them, and show more solidarity and support.
The Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman along with the former minister of state, department for communities and local government & foreign and commonwealth office, Rt. Hon. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, was today honored by Pakistani senior member of the cabinet of the Punjab province and the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, Dr. Umar Saif.
Nobel peace laureate Tawakkol Karman participated in the "21st Century Thinking" conference hosted by the Independent University of the Caribbean in Barranquilla, northern Colombia, on Aug. 23-25.