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| The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights. (AFP) |
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| Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Yemeni Tawakul Karman flashes a victory sign outside her tent in Tagheer square in Sanaa October 7, 2011. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah) |
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| Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland announces Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen as the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace prize in Oslo, Norway, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. (AP) |
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| Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, organized a group of Christian and Muslim women to challenge Liberia's warlords. (Reuters/Adam Hunger) |
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| In 2009 she won a Profile in Courage Award, an honor named for a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by John F. Kennedy, for her work in emboldening women in Liberia. (AFP/Frederick M. Brown) |
