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Yemen activist wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Yemeni women's rights activist Tawakul Karman along with Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee has been won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. "We want to point to the role of women and the inferior role of women and how this role can be improved," Aljazeera.net quotes the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Geir Lundestad as saying. Tawakul Karman dedicated the award to the Yemeni people and the Arab Spring. "This is for the Yemeni revolution; [it is] victory for our peace. We will build our country with peace. I give this award for all the youth in the Arab world," she said.