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Yemeni Nobel peace laureate hopes to collect award in Norway
Oct 11, 2011, 12:45 GMT
Oslo - Yemeni pro-democracy and women's rights campaigner Tawakkul Karman, co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, hopes to collect her award in person, Norwegian weekly Ny Tid reported Tuesday.
Karman, 32, was awarded the prize last week, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee.
'In general I feel more secure, due to the attention,' Karman told the weekly. 'I am more protected after the Nobel Committee's announcement.'
Karman, Johnson-Sirleaf and Gbowee were honoured for their 'non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work,' the committee said.
In her remarks to Ny Tid, Karman said she hoped to attend the December 10 award ceremony in Oslo. 'I will try, but it depends on the situation in Yemen.'
The Nobel Peace Prize was one of the awards endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. They are presented on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.
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