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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her national Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen collected their Nobel diplomas and medals to applause by Oslos City foyer.Prize board Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland assumed the three women be a symbol of the struggle used for creature civil rights participating in all-purpose and of women used for equality and stillness participating in fastidious.nix woman or else sub-Saharan African had won the prize since 2004, at what time the working group grateful Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who mobilized poor women to fight deforestation by planting trees.By selecting Karman the prize working group furthermore documented the Arab Spring movement championed by often everyday activists from Tunisia to Syria.Womens privileges trio wins Nobel freedom from strife PrizeRights come together urges Yemen to bar young person marriageYemeni women burn veils to voice disapproval crackdownSirleaf was selected president of Liberia hip 2005 and won re-election hip October. She is widely credited with portion her rural area emerge from an especially brutal civil war.