On 17 December 2020, Karman said that her home and office were raided by Houthis and took control of them after stealing furniture. Like many Yemenis, Karman was forced to leave her country after the capital's takeover by Houthi rebels amid the deteriorating security situation.įrom her new home in Istanbul, Karman continues to speak out against injustices committed in Yemen, including the war waged by the Saudi-UAE-led coalition and US drone attacks in her homeland. In 2019, Tawakkol was honoured with the Social Entrepreneur of the Year at The Asian Awards. The Turkish government offered her Turkish citizenship and she received her citizenship documents from the Turkish foreign minister on 11 October 2012, with Karman herself traced her Turkish origin from Central Anatolia's Karaman Province. According to Dexter Filkins, writing in The New Yorker, the official was President Saleh. Īccording to Tariq Karman, "a senior Yemeni official" threatened his sister Tawakkol with death in a telephone call on 26 January 2011 if she continued her public protests. Īt a protest in 2010, a woman attempted to stab her with a jambiya but Karman's supporters managed to stop the assault. In 2012, she received an Honorary Doctorate in International Law from University of Alberta in Canada. Karman earned an undergraduate degree in commerce from the University of Science and Technology, a graduate degree in political science from the University of Sana'a. She is married to Mohammed al-Nahmi and is the mother of three children. Safa is also a journalist and works as a journalist for Al-Jazeera. She is the sister of Tariq Karman, who is a poet, and Safa Karman, who is a lawyer and the first Yemeni citizen to graduate from Harvard Law School. She is the daughter of Abdel Salam Karman, a lawyer and politician, who once served and later resigned as Legal Affairs Minister in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government. She grew up near Taiz, which was the second largest in North Yemen and is described as a place of learning in a conservative country. Tawakkol Karman was born on 7 February 1979 in Shara'b As Salam, Taiz Governorate, then North Yemen. 4.1 Involvement of international government organizations.She was a vocal opponent who called for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime. She redirected the Yemeni protests to support the "Jasmine Revolution," as she calls the Arab Spring, after the Tunisian people overthrew the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
She organized weekly protests after May 2007 expanding the issues for reform. Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007, after which she led protests for press freedom. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize.
In 2011, she was reportedly called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by some Yemenis. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman ( Arabic: توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, romanized: Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khalid Karmān also romanized Tawakul, Tawakel born 7 February 1979 ) is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist.
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