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The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Tawakkol Karman has donated 2016 Freedom Award’s prize money she received yesterday from the US National Civil Rights Museum to relief efforts in Yemen’s Tihama region.
In a post published on her own Facebook page on Thursday’s night, Karman announced that she will dedicate the prize to the Yemeni people for their great and continuous struggle for freedom and dignity, adding that she thinks that Yemen’s people are the actual winner and she received the award on behalf of them.
“I will dedicate it to Yemen’s great youth who had a dream for which they sparked a very great and peaceful revolution and are yet struggling for it”, she stated.
The Memphis-based National Civil Rights Museum honoured on Thursday seven men and women: an "Equal Justice" advocate, a broadcast journalist, a federal judge, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a WNBA player, a lawyer and a former governor.
Past recipients of the museum's annual Freedom Award have included Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Sidney Poitier, Stevie Wonder, the Dalai Lama, and at least three people so famous — Bono, Oprah and Usher.
Since 1991, the Freedom Award has been given to outstanding individuals who have made great global and national impact and as recognition of these men and women’s significant contributions to civil and human rights.
