Tawakkol Karman

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

📍 Yemen, Yemen🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations.
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Jan 2012
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman and Mairead Maguire. The Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and courageous women Peace Laureates to increase the power and visibility of women's groups working globally for peace, justice and equality. Learn more http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/ Read our founding vision at http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/2006/08/founding-vision-of-the-nobel-womens-initiative.
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2020
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Mar 2020
Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations.
2017
Founder
Feb 2017
On 20 December 2016, Tawakkol Karman Foundation was established, carrying various objectives, visions, and projects that target human being wherever they are. Starting with adopting solidarity values with the poor, needy, and oppressed at different parts of the world, and ending with a world where tolerance and peace prevail. Since its establishment, TKF started with steady and ambitious steps to reach the most devastated and most needy regions. TKF, although a young and growing organization, with a strong track record and full of aspirations for the future. Mission: Tawakkol Karman Foundation, is an international endowment, strives to be a pioneer paragon in the development, peacemaking, democratization, and good governance sectors, through provision of development programs and trainings, mobilization and advocacy, aid, and relief programs, promoting education, health, culture, and arts sectors. Also, empowering women to take the lead in their communities, in cooperation with governments, civil society organizations, private sector, and donor community, to serve humanity. Vision: Communities that enjoy comprehensive, development, democracy and peace.
2012
UN High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
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Jul 2012
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Jan 2012
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman and Mairead Maguire. The Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and courageous women Peace Laureates to increase the power and visibility of women's groups working globally for peace, justice and equality. Learn more http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/ Read our founding vision at http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/2006/08/founding-vision-of-the-nobel-womens-initiative.
2011
Peaceful Revolution Youth Council
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Feb 2011
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