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Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee win Nobel Peace PrizeHORCHE, Spain — The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded Friday to three influential women from Africa and the Middle East, a decision intended at once to draw attention to the suppression of women's rights ... read more
Groups Call for Release of Chinese Nobel Laureate
BEIJING — Three prominent human rights groups called on China on Friday to release the imprisoned dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize a year ago, and to end the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia. ... read more
Nobel Prize winners
Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, center left, 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 Oct. 7, ... read more
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