EASSI congratulates the three iconic women including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -Africa's first democratically elected female president, Leymah Gbowee - a Liberian peace activist and Tawakkul Karman a woman who stood up to Yemen's authoritarian regime for winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize ($1.5 million) for their work to secure women's rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to advancing world peace.
These were the first women to win the prize since another Global Fund grantee partner, Wangari Maathai, who in September 21011 was named as the laureate in 2004. Most of the recipients in the award’s 110-year history have been men and today’s decision echoes the belief that women have creative and strategic solutions to the problems facing their communities.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
The peace prize was in line with Norway's development aid strategy, which is often focused on women's rights. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called the award "important and worthy." In his 1895 will, award creator Alfred Nobel gave only vague guidelines for the peace prize, saying it should honor "work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
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