YEMEN / NOBEL LAUREATE

In an interview in June during a UN Human Rights assessment mission to Yemen, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman spoke of the aspirations of the democracy moment. OHCHR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:10
• Production Date: 10 October 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: U111010f

Description

STORY: YEMEN / NOBEL LAUREATE
TRT: 1.10
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: JUNE 2011, 10 OCTOBER 2011

Shotlist

FILE – JUNE 2011, YEMEN

1. Tracking shot, military car
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tawakkul Karman Nobel Laureate:
“The young Yemenites went out for their freedom, their dignity and for their homeland plundered for 33 years. We firmly believe that it is about a peaceful fight which asks for sacrifices. We give our lives, our blood, our money, everything, for the pride and the dignity of our country. If the UN does not support the rights of the peoples for whom it was established, then it will have no reason for being. We count on the UN and on this mission so that this regime is judged.”

Storyline

Tawakkul Karman is 32 years old, the mother of three children, a journalist, an activist in her home country of Yemen and now the youngest person ever to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In an interview in June during a UN Human Rights assessment mission to Yemen prior to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, Karman spoke of the aspirations of the democracy moment. “Young Yemenites are seeking their freedom, their dignity and the return of their homeland which has been plundered for 33 years.”

She called on the UN human rights team during the mission to ensure justice prevails for the Yemeni people.

Karman, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia and Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian campaigner for peace and the rights of women, share this year’s Nobel Prize.