10/14/2011
Noble Nobel Women
If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try - you don’t take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter, 1927-2023, First Lady of the United States
Four brave women, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, serve as a great inspiration to the World Forum's Working Groups focusing on nature, gender equity, and advocacy:
- Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, and best known as the Tree Mother of Africa, was the first African woman to win the Nobel prize when she received that award in 2004. She believed that a healthy environment helped improve lives by providing clean water and firewood for cooking and thereby decreased conflict. Her organization planted 30 million trees and inspired a generation of women in Kenya to exert their rights. She died last week at the age of 71.
This year three women activists were Nobel Prize winners:
- Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was the first African female elected head of state. Known as Liberia's "Iron Lady," Sirleaf pledged to bring "motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency."
- Leyman Gbowee mobilized women across ethnic and religious lines in peace activism and female electoral participation. In 2003 she led a march through Liberia's capital, Monrovia, demanding the end to the rape of women by soldiers.
- Tawakul Karman is an irrepressible force and one of the pivotal figures in Yemen's pro-democracy protests. Karman, described as the foremost role model for women in Yemen, is the first Arab woman to win the Peace Prize.
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