Born: February 7, 1979. Taiz. Yemeni human rights activist. Born in southern Yemen to a family of political activists. Her father is a lawyer and served as Minister of Justice before the Yemeni civil war in 1994. She graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Sana'a in 1999, and later obtained a master's degree in political science. She then became active as a journalist. In 2005, she co-founded the human rights group "Women Journalists Unfettered" with her colleagues, and in 2007, they held weekly sit-ins in protest against the government's ban on mobile news services. She is a member of the Islamic political party Islah, but she objects to some of the religious restrictions on women, and has stopped wearing the niqab (veil) and started wearing a headscarf. She is also known as the "Mother of the Revolution" and the "Iron Lady" for her leading role in the 2011 protests calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. She lived in a tent in the center of the capital, Sana'a, and became a powerful symbol of the anti-government protest movement. In 2011, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Reemah Gbowee for "their nonviolent struggle for women's safety and for women's rights to participate in peacebuilding activities." She was the first Arab woman to receive the prize. Kalman |
[生]1979.2.7. タイズ イエメンの人権活動家。南イエメンの政治的活動家の家庭に生まれた。父は弁護士で,1994年にイエメン内戦が起こる以前は法務大臣を務めていた。1999年にサヌアの科学技術大学を卒業,のちに政治科学の修士号を取得。その後,ジャーナリストとして活躍する。2005年に人権団体「束縛なき女性ジャーナリスト」を仲間と共同で創設,2007年には政府が携帯メールによるニュース配信サービスを禁止したことに抗議する座り込みを毎週行なった。イスラム政党イスラーハに所属するが,女性に対する宗教的制約の一部に異議を唱え,みずからもニカブ(ベール)の着用をやめてヘッドスカーフを着用している。2011年にアリー・アブドゥラー・サーレハ大統領の辞任を求める抗議デモで指導的な役割を果たしたことから,「革命の母」「鉄の女」とも呼ばれる。首都サヌアの中心部でテント暮らしをし,反政府抗議運動の力強いシンボルとなった。同 2011年,「女性の安全のため,平和構築活動に女性が参加する権利のために非暴力で闘ってきた」という理由でリベリアのエレン・ジョンソン・サーリーフ大統領,同国の平和活動家リーマ・ボウイーとともにノーベル平和賞を授与された。アラブ女性として初の平和賞受賞となった。 カルマン
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