Saturday, October 8, 2011

Nobel Peace Prize Committee redeems itself by recognizing three women activists


The Nobel Peace Prize lost  a little of its luster when the Committee awarded it to recently inaugurated President Barack Obama, not for anything he had accomplished, but for what they hoped his role would be as a peacemaker, and we all know how that has turned out.

The Committee redeemed itself with this year’s award to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Watch the video:

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