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Yemen's Nobel Peace Prize winner Karman vows to continue fight for women

2011-10-09 2 Dailymotion

Yemen's Tawakul Karman was one of three women to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace.<br/> Outside her tent in Change Square in Sanaa she accepts the congratulations of friends for an award she has said is a victory for the Arab Spring.<br/> She says she will continue to fight.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman, saying: (Arabic):<br/> "Our mission will not only be in Yemen, I intend to work with my colleagues -- the activists who received the Nobel Peace Prize -- in order to achieve a world free of struggle and conflict."<br/> The peace activist, who was detained briefly during protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the peaceful revolution to topple the veteran ruler will continue.<br/> She has been a key figure among the youth activists since they began camping out in an urban space dubbed 'Change Square' in central Sanaa in February demanding the end of Saleh's three-decade family rule.<br/> On Saturday Saleh said once again that he would step down from office within days. Saleh has backed out of signing a Gulf-mediated power transition deal three times.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters

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